Hockey sometimes transcends sport. It teaches life skills such as resilience and teamwork and helps players create lifelong bonds that form the basis of a strong sense of community — especially when those players have been playing together for decades. Read More

MILAN — On Friday afternoon in Milan, Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas crouched down on the ice, her hands a centimetre from the surface, and waited for her music. She thrust those hands skyward at the first note, but then stopped, stood up, and skated to the sideline. Read More

What else were you going to do this month? Florida mid-winter getaways are passé, no one goes to movies anymore and, in many parts of the country, mountains of snow will keep us trapped in our homes until we’re freed by rescuers sometime in mid-April. We may as well download a food-delivery app, stock the couch-side cooler and settle in for two weeks (plus) of Olympic TV bliss. Read More

British skier Gus Kenworthy has taken aim at the Trump administration, and the snow, posting an image of the words “F—- ICE” written in urine ahead of his arrival at Milan Cortina. Read More

The governments of Canada and France are opening new consulates in Nuuk, capital of Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory that has become a flashpoint in international relations after U.S. President Donald Trump said it should be part of the United States. Read More

OTTAWA — With federal Conservatives preparing to be ready for an election as soon as this spring, one outstanding question the party must answer is where party leader Pierre Poilievre will run.  Read More

“Trojan horses.” Read More

A video posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday showing Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys was no longer available online as of noon on Friday. Read More

It's finally here: The 2026 Olympics Opening Ceremony. And we are here to bring you all the action, straight from Milan and Cortina. This opening ceremony will be a little different, as these Olympics are spread across northern Italy, and there will be ceremonies in Milan, Cortina, Predazzo, and Livigno. What will it look like when the Parade of Nations takes place across four different venues? We will find out in this journey together. Read More

Surely it was quite the dilemma: To play or, well, to puke. Read More

The World Anti-Doping Agency is well known for busting drug cheats. But they are facing a new conundrum at these Winter Olympics: Allegations that ski jumpers are injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid for a competitive edge. Read More

MILAN -- When the Canada-Finland game was postponed on Thursday due to norovirus on the Finnish roster, there is obvious concern for the health of Finland players and any potential that the women's hockey tournament could turn into a medical crisis. Read More

These athletes may not have won medals, but they won the hearts of Canadians who cheered them on, watched them represent Canada or take part in games hosted by the country. Read More

The family of the kidnapped mother of a top US TV news anchor made a new plea for information from her captors on Thursday, after investigators said they believed the 84-year-old was still alive. Read More

Canada’s perfect mixed-doubles curling run to the Olympic Games has come to a halt. 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

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's request to stay in Canada as a refugee has been denied by the Immigration and Refugee Board, his lawyer says. Read More

Does the Canada-U.S.A. rivalry officially extend to the curling rink? Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh. Read More

It's perhaps fitting that a leak sprang in the ceiling of the media centre at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan, just as your correspondent sat down to assemble the piece which follows. Read More

A billionaire former oligarch who renounced his Russian citizenship in the summer of 2023 is seeking $350 million from Canada at an international investment dispute tribunal for freezing his assets after Russia invaded Ukraine. Read More

Danielle Smith of Alberta and Doug Ford of Ontario are leading the pack in a recent Fraser Institute report on the fiscal performance of Canadian premiers. Read More

In the summer of 2015, I travelled from Berlin to Montreal to attend an annual conference on Israel studies. It was my first time in North America, and what struck me immediately was not only the scale of the cities, but the visibility of Jewish communal life. Compared with much of continental Europe, Jewish institutions in Canada appeared confident, established and deeply embedded in the social fabric. Read More