TEL AVIV — Bomb shelter dance parties were held throughout Israel last week in celebration of Purim, a holiday that commemorates the ancient rescue of the Jewish people from a genocidal Persian official. Despite frequent missile strikes and air-raid sirens, the festivities were defiantly joyful, epitomizing the resilience of a nation that has grown accustomed to war. Read More

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its latest stupefying ruling. According to an 8–1 majority in the case of Quebec (Attorney General) v. Kanyinda, the Charter requires the Quebec government to extend subsidized daycare benefits to refugee claimants — asylum seekers who have not yet proven the legitimacy of their claim to refugee status. Founded on a prevalent but contentious reading of constitutional equality rights, the court’s reasoning has far-reaching potential to destabilize parts of the nation’s immigration and social welfare systems. Read More

The past 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

Dr. Alecs Chochinov recently received a private message from an emergency medicine colleague who has been practising for more than a decade. "I've never been so despondent," it said. Read More

A political science professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is voicing opposition to a proposed Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS) on his campus. Read More

We shouldn’t have been too shocked when Parliament blundered into honouring a veteran of a Nazi SS unit in 2023. After the Holocaust, this country became a favoured destination for countless European war criminals. They were actually welcomed by the government. Despite their crimes, they were left to live peaceful, prosperous lives and even built monuments here to their wartime exploits. What is shocking is that almost none of them faced a single consequence for their atrocities. Read More

As Mark Carney returns home after a critically-important trip across the Indo-Pacific region with stops in Delhi, Canberra and Tokyo, he could have broken the ice with his hosts by quoting Kurt Russell’s trucker hero, Jack Burton, in the film Big Trouble in Little China: “I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.” Read More

War clarifies intentions and strips away illusion. The war between Iran and the West is no longer being fought in the shadows through proxies and covert disruption. The joint American and Israeli campaign is now targeting military infrastructure, command networks, nuclear facilities and senior leadership figures within the Islamic Republic. Read More

OTTAWA — A hockey-puck-shaped canister of nicotine product Zyn, not approved for sale in Canada, was the accessory of choice as Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's "Restore the North" campus tour rolled through the West Coast last week. Read More

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois House Leader Christine Normandin dismissed the idea that her party may be the one to block Prime Minister Mark Carney’s path to forming a majority government in a crucial byelection held in the suburbs of Montreal next month. Read More

Ten days after attacking Iran together, the United States and Israel have seen a public divergence, with U.S. President Donald Trump facing political pressure and not sharing Israel's long-term goals. Read More

Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country, a complete reversal after the government had previously ordered the social media company to close its Canadian division for security reasons. Read More

Israel’s president says “all eyes are on Canada,” after a Zoom call with Canadian Jewish leaders to discuss a series of antisemitic attacks in Toronto. Read More

It is progress that the Prime Minister’s Office is now letting Canadians know when Mark Carney speaks with President Donald Trump, but it would be much better if the read-out that followed didn’t subtract from the sum of human knowledge. Read More

OTTAWA — The G7 finance ministers met on Monday to discuss the potential release of emergency oil reserves amid soaring prices due to the Iranian conflict but stopped short of providing that relief. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that 11 countries had tapped Kyiv for help in how to counter Iranian drones being fired by Tehran in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes. Read More

A Canadian mother of four has died after undergoing cosmetic surgery procedures in Turkey, news outlets are reporting. Read More

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to two counts of making false claims certifying that he was a U.S. citizen on North Carolina voter registration applications in 2022 and 2024 to vote in elections in those years, including in the 2024 presidential election, the Department of Justice has said. Read More

OTTAWA — Opposition leaders blasted Prime Minister Mark Carney for missing a debate on Canada's position on the war in Iran and the Middle East on Monday evening amid sharp criticism about Carney's evolving position on the conflict. Read More

If you’re one of the declining number of Canadians escaping to a warmer destination in the U.S. for March break, be aware that now more of your electronic devices could be searched at the border. Read More

Sexual assault charges against auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach involving three of his seven accusers have been abandoned by the Crown because, after their testimony, there is no longer a prospect of finding him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Read More

Paris — Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on desalination plants — critical infrastructure for millions of people in the arid region. Read More

A vast majority of Canadians — including the prime minister — think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother to King Charles III, should be removed from the line of succession to the crown. It's a position Andrew still holds in spite of having been stripped of his royal titles, something that happened even before his arrest last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Read More

Monday is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Smith is probably the best-known and least-read economist, which explains why he is so often misunderstood. Read More