Iran plans to execute Erfan Soltani, 26, for participating in anti-government protests. Read More

A Nova Scotia man who served 35 years for the violent slaying of a 12-year-old Ontario girl he had raped had his day parole extended last month and continues to live in the Halifax area, according to the Parole Board of Canada. Read More

After nearly 47 years of subjecting the people of Iran to tyrannical cruelty and destroying the Iranian economy while serving as the financier and armourer of at least a dozen terrorist groups throughout the Greater Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to be finally at the point of collapse. Read More

In the fall, Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a plan to double Canada's non-U.S. exports by 2035. What he failed to make explicit was that in order to do so, he would be cozying up to some of the world's most reprehensible dictators. Read More

NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton apologized Tuesday for using AI to respond to constituents on social media platform Reddit, saying it was due to an "overwhelming number of questions." Read More

Last summer’s 28 Years Later, set decades after the events of the 2002 horror movie 28 Days Later, was that cinematic rarity, the good sequel. This one, sequel to a sequel, pulls off an even less common feat. It’s better. Read More

BEIJING — Within hours of landing in Beijing with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Foreign Minister Anita Anand appeared to be stepping back from the Liberal government's 2024 assessment that China is an "increasingly disruptive" global force. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his demand for the U.S. to take control of Greenland for national security reasons before a meeting of top diplomats in Washington and called on NATO to support his efforts. Read More

Los Angeles — Actor Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in the television series 24 and the vampire flick The Lost Boys, was arrested Monday on suspicion of assaulting a ride-share driver, according to Los Angeles police. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Dawn had not yet broken in Jerusalem on October 7, 2023, when Baruch Apisdorf received a text message from his best friend. David Newman, 25, had borrowed Apisdorf's car to go to a music festival in southern Israel. Read More

A transgender woman convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of a 13-year-old Edmonton girl who was lured to a golf course, sexually assaulted, strangled, stabbed, then bludgeoned to death with a hammer, has lost her bid to stay in a women's prison. Read More

People like Kory Teneycke and Anthony Koch do not relocate from Ontario and Quebec to direct politics on the West Coast for fun. They do so because they understand the importance of what is happening in British Columbia. Read More

Suppose — just suppose — that in 2026 Canada’s federal-provincial relations continue to deteriorate under the mismanagement of the Carney government, that a clear majority of the citizens of Quebec or Alberta actually threaten to vote Yes on a clear secession question, and that the reactionary anti-development positions of several provincial and First Nations governments (like those of B.C.) continue to cripple the ability of the Canadian economy to support the health, education and social services required to adequately sustain the well-being of 40 million people. Read More

Solicitor General Michael Kerzner is right: Toronto’s response to chronic intimidation and harassment by masked mobs has been grossly inadequate for two years. Frequent vitriol and social disorder are causing real damage to Toronto’s livability and reputation. But the fault does not lay with our police, who are doing everything they can. Police don’t make the rules, political leaders do. Read More

Every gay man has felt that shame. It settles early, long before we have language for who we are or the courage to name it. It’s learned in locker rooms and hallways, in jokes not meant for us, but always about us. It’s reinforced by silence, by the constant calculation of what can be said, and what must never be revealed. Shame is enforced subtly — through exclusion, fear, and the knowledge that visibility comes at a cost. Read More

One oil spill would destroy a way of life, is what Marilyn Slett said she told Mark Carney when he visited Prince Rupert, B.C., to discuss conservation and economic opportunities in the region. Read More

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney lands Wednesday in Beijing to kick off a potentially important diplomatic trip to China and the Mideast, analysts say the mission removes any doubt that Canadian foreign policy has taken a clear pivot towards trade and investment since the departure of Justin Trudeau. Read More

The dark fleet of tankers shipping illicit oil around the world is rushing to seek the perceived protection of the Russian flag after the U.S. started seizing vessels involved in the Venezuelan trade. Read More

The United States must bomb Iran’s Islamic regime immediately and stop the slaughter of the country’s pro-democracy activists. While this would be an extraordinary measure, failure to intervene would constitute a historical injustice and a missed opportunity for the peaceful transformation of the Middle East. Read More

President Donald Trump expressed indifference toward the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, portending a lengthy renegotiation of the U.S.’s largest free-trade pact. Read More

The United States on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as terrorist organizations, fulfilling a long demand of Arab allies and U.S. conservatives. Read More