MILAN — Canadian speedskater Valérie Maltais won bronze in the women’s 3,000 metre race in Milan on Saturday, earning Canada its first Olympic medal of the Milan-Cortina Games. Read More

Republicans are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump’s slipping support on immigration and the economy — two key issues that helped him win in 2024 — could cost them the midterm elections. The Super Bowl halftime show won’t help their anxiety. Read More

When Lindsey Vonn said that she that she was ready to compete in the Winter Olympics just a week after suffering a devastating knee injury, she wasn’t kidding. Read More

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday he hoped talks with the United States would resume soon, while reiterating Tehran's red lines and warning against any American attack. Read More

The United States wants Ukraine and Russia to end their nearly four-year war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides in Florida next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Read More

Yes, one of the most prominent gay athletes at the Milan-Cortina Games has seen "Heated Rivalry." Read More

Olympic officials are saying there is “no outbreak” of norovirus in the athletes’ village in Milan, despite a rash of cases that left the Finnish women’s hockey team unable to play earlier this week, and left Switzerland with one confirmed case on its roster. Read More

Harley Finkelstein is interested in buying the Hudson’s Bay sign recently removed from the exterior wall near the entrance to the company’s former Queen Street flagship store in Toronto. Read More

TEL AVIV — With his slick black ponytail and confident stride, Dor Shachar emanates a kind of Israeli Jewish cool in the lobby of a luxe Tel Aviv hotel. But Shachar was born Ayman Abu Soobuch, a Muslim from Khan Younis in Gaza, where he was taught to hate Jews. Read More

Homegrown wines have experienced "explosive growth" in the wake of the trade war with the United States. As alcohol sales slump worldwide, all four of Canada's key wine-producing provinces have seen increased interest in local products, according to liquor board data. Read More

On Wednesday, Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller announced that he’ll be assembling a committee to come up with a “common narrative” to hold our rapidly diversifying nation together. Read More

Might we get a moment of musical protest at the Super Bowl? Read More

The last week has been a turning point for the Conservative Party of Canada. Its devotees observed the 20th anniversary of the coming to office of Stephen Harper at the head of a reconstructed Conservative party that merged the old Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance/Reform Party. Stephen Harper thus became the only prime minister of Canada in history who had to assemble his own party to contest the election. This has happened in some provinces, such as Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale, René Lévesque's Parti Quebecois, and Francois Legault’s Coalition Avenir Quebec, and the Social Credit parties of William Aberhart in Alberta and W.A.C. Bennett in British Columbia. It was a greatly more complicated achievement for Stephen Harper to patch together the fragments of parties across the country. Read More

Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on game-changing people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oil sands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting transformed millions of lives; Loblaws changed how we live. Today, we continue our new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

Recent shootings in Minneapolis by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol have stirred up controversy because members of the public recorded the incidents, ensuring that the official narrative can’t go unchallenged. That unsettles Trump administration officials because, like their predecessors (and probably their successors), they’re uncomfortable with grassroots efforts to monitor government actions. That’s too bad. Both the U.S. Constitution and public sentiment firmly support independent efforts to publicize the conduct of government employees. Read More

OTTAWA — During a ceremony this week to unveil his official portrait, former prime minister Stephen Harper made a point of mentioning the tie he’s wearing in the painting. Read More

Luigi Mangione will face a June 8 murder trial in a New York state court for the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson, three months before he is slated to be tried by federal prosecutors for the same crime, a judge ruled. Read More

China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian official told AFP Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks to boost trade ties with Beijing. Read More

It’s not an Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Games until the confusion sets in. Read More

MILAN — For three hours, the woes of the world seemingly disappeared as spectators across the planet marvelled at Italian ingenuity and high fashion, and revelled in the Olympic spirit. Read More

A norovirus outbreak already delayed the first game for the Canadian women's hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Could it be happening again? Read More

OTTAWA — The Official Languages Commissioner was graded a D in translation Friday after posting a spoof Valentine's Day card in French suggesting that practicing a second tongue is surprisingly... arousing. Read More

The Milano Cortina Olympics in San Siro kicked off with a kaleidoscope of brightly coloured costumes, all the operatic grandeur you’d expect out of Italy and a treat for the ears — by way of Mariah Carey singing the highest of high notes at the opening ceremony. Read More

In a recent interview, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly made comments about Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's trip to Washington, D.C., which revealed her lack of understanding of successful negotiations. Her comments also reflected a troubling inflexibility towards Canada-United States relations in general. Read More