Nearly a week after the first joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran, the conflict continues to escalate across the Middle East, with casualties mounting and tens of thousands of Canadians across the region now facing growing danger. Read More

TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he believes disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession.  Read More

President Donald Trump said Friday Cuba was next on his agenda after Iran, predicting that the communist-run island, crippled by a U.S. energy blockade, is "gonna fall pretty soon." Read More

Even Carrie Bradshaw discovered the value of a rug. In season 3, Episode 5, of the HBO series And Just Like That..., our heroine indulged her fondness for clomping about her new, undecorated townhouse in fancy, expensive shoes. Read More

The B.C. RCMP has begun a homicide investigation following the disappearance of an Iranian activist who has been a vocal critic of Iran's ruling regime. Read More

Anyone who has picked up a newspaper over the past week can be forgiven for thinking we might be witnessing the start of World War III. Except for the fact that no one, other than Iran's terrorist buddies in Hezbollah, is lining up on the side of the Islamic Republic. Read More

It would be foolish to suggest Prime Minister Mark Carney is in anything like trouble as the one-year anniversary of his taking office approaches a few days from now. The latest Postmedia-Leger poll this week pegs the Liberals at 49 per cent support nationwide, the Conservatives at 35 per cent and — crucially for the Conservatives, who rely on vote-splitting off their port side — the NDP at a catastrophic and well-deserved five per cent. Read More

It’s a far cry from the White House decision to post an image of a bald eagle trampling a Canada goose after the U.S. won Olympic gold at the recent men’s hockey final in Turin, Italy. Read More

Anyone in the world who shows up in Canada and makes an asylum claim is entitled to free subsidized daycare if citizens get it too, said all but one judge of the Supreme Court on Friday. They framed their decision as a matter of social justice — seemingly ignorant that their words degraded the value of Canadian citizenship by extending our social safety net, which we pay for, to unvetted foreigners. Read More

The Jewish Security Network is encouraging greater Toronto's Jewish community to exercise extra caution as Israel and the United States wage war on Iran. Read More

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that asylum seekers in Quebec with young children are eligible for the province's subsidized daycare programs. The ruling was released Friday morning with eight of the nine Supreme Court judges in favour of the decision. Read More

A curious thing about the sport that this country loves so much is that it is essentially, on any given night, random. Read More

The 2026 Academy Awards air March 15, and whether you’re rallying a crowd or going solo, your living room can become every bit as celebratory as a Hollywood party. We asked two entertaining pros how to pull it off without breaking a sweat or your budget. Read More

When you’re sitting at the edge of a precipice, you need a calm, confident coach to help you move past your fears. As I sat perched at the top of a steep hill strapped to a sit ski at Whistler Backcomb Ski Resort, I was nervous. Brian Rode of Whistler Adaptive talked me down. Read More

OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Anita Anand said she welcomes different viewpoints ahead of a Friday meeting with her party's caucus, after her government’s shifting stance on the Iranian conflict has faced criticism. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says he's paying no mind to perceived tensions between Aboriginal title and private property rights in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, despite having skin in the game as someone who maintains two residences in the area. Read More

A survey of 25 countries by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center has found that Americans are most likely to rate others living in their country as morally or ethically bad. In fact, it was the only country where more people defined others as bad than good. Read More

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Justice Department released additional files Thursday related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including previously withheld FBI interview summaries containing uncorroborated allegations that U.S. President Donald Trump sexually assaulted a minor decades ago. Read More

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the war with Iran in a post on social media that demanded Tehran capitulate as US and Israeli airstrikes continue. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. 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

Our cookbook of the week is Franco Pepe: Pizza Chef by the founder of the famed Italian pizzeria Pepe in Grani. Read More

Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: Read More

TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney, on an ongoing mission to bring together the world's middle powers, brought out his rusty Japanese skills as he met his counterpart and enjoyed a Canadian-inspired birthday cake in Tokyo.  Read More