KYIV, Ukraine — As the war in Ukraine drags into its fifth year, drones have come to completely dominate the front line — a transformation in modern warfare that is being watched around the world. Read More

MILAN — Marie-Philip Poulin sat on the dais, red baseball cap pulled low, and wiped tears from her eyes. It was close to midnight in Milan, more than an hour after what might have been the final game she would ever play for Canada at the Winter Olympics. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is proposing a raft of new policies aimed at reigning in high immigration rates, part of what she called a response to "disastrous" Trudeau-era immigration changes that have swamped the province’s public service. Read More

The five contenders to lead the NDP squared off in New Westminster, B.C. on Thursday evening for the second of two official leadership debates. Read More

A new program aimed at attracting skilled recruits from foreign militaries is “nothing new,” according to a professor at the Canadian Forces College. Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — With a few F-bombs and an outstretched finger, they became one of the biggest stories of the Milano-Cortina Olympics. Read More

The Ontario government’s new commitment of $6.4 billion over four years to help its financially beleaguered colleges and universities is certainly an improvement over its previous policy of starving the sector for money and hoping it would all work out in the end. Read More

MILAN - During the agonizing wait for the medals to be awarded following a heart-breaking overtime loss to the U.S., Canada’s captain for the ages, Marie-Philip Poulin, tried to do the impossible and ease the pain. Read More

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the U.S. Congress aimed at strengthening travel and tourism ties between United States, Canada and Mexico. Read More

On Thursday, British police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, after accusations that he shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a British trade envoy. Read More

The Milano-Cortina Paralympics are still two weeks out, but controversy has already arisen over the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes, who’ll be permitted to compete under their respective flags and hear their anthems should they medal.  Read More

A human rights tribunal has ordered a salon just outside of Montreal to pay a non-binary customer $500 because its list of services lacked a gender-neutral option. The tribunal's ruling: discrimination based on gender identity. If the salon doesn't pay, it risks being sued. Read More

A top Australian sports reporter sent to Italy to cover the Milano-Cortina Games has admitted she had “a drink” before going live on air and apologized for her slightly intoxicated state. Read More

The last thing that an Olympic athlete wants to do before hurling themselves down a hill and launching more than a 100 metres in the air is get distracted. Read More

OTTAWA — Canadians fear that tariff threats from the United States are only going to get worse, a new poll found. Read More

In this special episode of 10/3, National Post's Robert Cribb sits down with award-winning journalist Rick Westhead to discuss his bestselling and deeply unsettling book, We Breed Lions. A book where Rick looks into systemic sexual abuse, toxic masculinity, and institutional failures within Canadian junior hockey — and examines how a culture built on loyalty and silence allowed harm to persist for decades. Read More

MILAN — Remember the video that flew around about 15 years ago, showing people playing basketball and asking if you saw the man dressed as a gorilla walking through? Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — After an early losing skid that had some counting them out, Team Rachel Homan now have two shots at an Olympic medal. Read More

I am a physician-researcher focused on the epidemiology of chronic diseases, especially inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an incurable and often debilitating condition in which the immune system attacks the gut. Humans have an evolved talent for spotting patterns in a chaotic world, and epidemiologists like myself harness that instinct to uncover associations in complex health data. Those associations help us understand why diseases develop, how trends change over time, and which exposures or interventions might alter risk or outcomes in practice. Read More

In the early days of the modern Olympic Games, a gold medal was also a precious metal -- a gleaming, solid-gold prize for a triumphant amateur athlete. Read More

In Greenland, making eye contact and lifting your eyebrows is as good as saying “hi there.” Just beware; wiggling your arches is considered flirting.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump was set to preside in Washington Thursday morning over the first Board of Peace meeting, where officials were expected to discuss Phase 2 of his Gaza plan. Read More

The Iranian regime “would be very wise” to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned on Wednesday, speaking amid indirect Washington-Tehran nuclear talks and a massive U.S. military buildup in the Mideast. Read More

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