Iraq, which had recently regained some stability after decades of conflict, was immediately dragged into the Middle East war triggered when the United States and Israel attacked Iran last weekend. Read More

A homemade incendiary thrown near anti-Islam protesters outside the New York mayor's residence was a viable improvised explosive device "that could have caused serious injury or death," police said Sunday. Read More

The issue of shots being fired at three Toronto-area synagogues in less than a week is no longer just a Jewish one. It’s fast becoming a Canadian issue and the impetus to do something about it has never been more immediately vital. Read More

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republic’s power grid. Read More

Eye-popping colours, carefree swirls and fluid fabrics — Pucci prints defined the summer of 2025, endorsed by It girls such as Hailey Bieber and Amelia Gray Hamlin. Online searches for Pucci fashions were at an all-time high, according to Google Trends, and social media was awash in the psychedelic pattern. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced three byelections for ridings in Ontario and Quebec, which could result in the governing Liberals securing a razor-thin majority in the House of Commons. Read More

Huge fireballs and clouds of thick smoke erupted over Tehran on Sunday after U.S.-Israeli air strikes hit fuel depots in the city, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to fight on for months to come. Read More

On Jan. 7, Heather McPherson, the longtime member of Parliament for Edmonton-Strathcona and current leadership candidate for the federal New Democratic Party, sponsored an openly antisemitic petition that seeks to investigate and charge any Canadians who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Read More

It happened. Shots were fired Friday night at my synagogue, Shaarei Shomayim. To be honest, I have been expecting this. It is not as if this area, like every other Jewish neighbourhood, has not had an increased police presence for over two years. Indeed, I wonder if the increased presence of security personnel may have made this neighbourhood seem like more of a target. Read More

Canadian diplomacy just did an about-face with India. Read More

The biggest long-range danger looming over the remaining liberal democracies does not come from U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin or the nutty mullahs in Iran now being pummelled. Instead, it comes from the seemingly inexorable force of technology that increasingly threatens not just to aid humanity, but replace it. Read More

Whatever else happens when the dust settles on the war against Iran, one certain casualty will be the Palestinians’ delusion that Iran’s terrorist “ring of fire” would vanquish the “Zionist entity,” home to half the world’s Jews. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

The early months of 2026 have witnessed a most welcome elevation in the quality of our political rhetoric. Prime Minister Mark Carney took the lead at Davos, quoting Thucydides and Vaclav Havel. Read More

British Columbia’s chief coroner announced this week that he will hold an inquest into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Any inquest will be fruitless — and perhaps even counterproductive — if run by persons too afraid to ask politically uncomfortable questions. Read More

Shortly after British settlers established the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849, governor James Douglas signed a flurry of treaties with the region’s First Nations to secure lands for fur trapping, mining and other activities. Read More

Re: Donald Trump's war on Iran is righteously just — Adam Zivo, March 2; and Mark Carney's unprincipled stand(s) on Iran — Michael Higgins, March 5 Read More

The police officers were taunted and beaten. Some were knocked unconscious and dragged down stone steps, tear gas stinging their throats, to chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!” on Jan. 6, 2021, as hundreds, then thousands, swarmed the citadel of American democracy. Read More

Saudi Arabia has stepped up direct engagement with Iran to try and contain a war in the Middle East that is causing havoc and stressing global markets, according to several European officials. Read More

First it was Temple Emanu-El. Then overnight Saturday gunfire struck BAYT (Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto) and Shaarei Shomayim. Read More

Two more Toronto-area synagogues were hit by gunfire early Saturday, hours after the city's Jewish community was warned to exercise extra caution as Israel and the United States wage war on Iran. Read More

While Prime Minister Mark Carney initially came out in strong support of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran, he seemed to change his tune only three days later, saying that he supported the military action “with regret.” Read More

An Ontario man with a history of drug abuse who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his mother by striking her "numerous times on the head, back, neck, and arms with several weapons, including a large bladed knife, a smaller paring knife, a claw hammer and a large pry bar," has seen his cannabis prohibition removed as a test to see how he handles it. Read More

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina’s President Javier Milei, whose early, attention-grabbing economic victories have cooled, has successfully pushed through a package of transformational labour reforms in a bid to modernize Argentina’s ailing economy. Read More