A powerful explosion rocked the façade of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, early on Monday morning, resulting in no injuries. 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

Ashley Chand spent more than a decade working her way up through the ranks of human resources and administration positions at some of Vancouver’s most prestigious law firms. 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

Statistics Canada will soon release the February labour force survey. When it arrives next Friday, headlines will focus on the unemployment rate and net job creation. Those numbers will matter, particularly as the economy contracted 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 and posted just 1.7 per cent growth for the full year, the weakest since the pandemic. Read More

The folly of Canada’s last decade of energy policy is a never-ending saga for which the costs to Canadians and Canadian industry seem only to rise. As the price of a barrel of oil and LNG skyrocket due to American and Israel military action in Iran and its fallout, Canada should be sitting on a massive opportunity to benefit from soaring prices. However, a decade of neglect and underinvestment in pipelines and egress capacity sees us looking wistfully on as other nations, such as the Untied States benefit while we toil away for little gain. 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

It looks like critics who were concerned about whether there would be bias in the upcoming Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) exhibit "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present" had cause to be concerned, after all. Read More

There's been much focus on - and debate around - the problems in Canada's immigration system and whether the prime minister is prepared to seriously address the mess left by his predecessor. Although overall immigration levels have come down, there are still significant pressures on the system, notably when it comes to asylum claims. The opposition Conservatives are pressing the government to crack down on those whose claims have been found to be bogus and to limit government benefits to those who remain in Canada despite rejected claims. Rob Breakenridge speaks with Conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Immigration Michelle Rempel-Garner. Read More