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Los Angeles police were investigating the deaths of Hollywood star Rob Reiner and his wife as an "apparent homicide", as condolences poured in for the director behind hits like "When Harry Met Sally". Read More

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel, brutally murdering 1,200 people and abducting 251 hostages. What happened next was shocking, as people took to the streets of Canada and other western countries, not to mourn the victims, but to celebrate their murderers. Read More

Back on Jan. 6 of this year, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed us that he would ask the Governor General to prorogue Parliament until March 24, so that the Liberal party could find a new leader. The governor general agreed, and MPs were sent packing. Read More

The Liberal government doled out almost $100,000 to a Toronto organization that claimed it would fight antisemitism but appears to be doing nothing of the sort. 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 a new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

I woke up Sunday morning to a photograph I never expected to see: my friend, human-rights lawyer and regular National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky, bloodied among the walking wounded at Bondi Beach. Read More

Federal U.S. prosecutors in two states are scrambling to keep a 58-year-old Canadian businessman locked up until his trial, saying he poses a danger to national security and there is no other way to stop him fleeing. Read More

This holiday season will bring a gaggle of Fraggles. The Jim Henson puppets will star in The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, a special now streaming on Apple TV that caps off the second season of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. As the story goes, it’s winter in the creatures’ titular home and they’re stoked for the first snowfall of the season. Read More

Police detained a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine injured, officials said. Read More

At around 6:47 p.m., as the sun began to fade on a warm Sunday afternoon at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, the first gunshots rang out. Read More

The horror of Bondi Beach could just as easily happen in Canada — because the conditions are the same: we have allowed antisemitism to grow unchecked and infect our society.  Read More

More than 1,000 Jewish people congregated on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, a festival of light and miracles. Read More

World leaders offered varied reactions to Sunday’s terrorist attack against Jews in Sydney, ranging from offering general condolences, including by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to accusing the Australian government of allowing antisemitic hatred to fester, as alleged by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. Read More

At least 16 people were killed and 40 were injured in a terrorist shooting that targeted a Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Sunday afternoon, according to Australian authorities. Read More

Canadian political leaders and Jewish organizations were swift to condemn a fatal mass shooting at an Australian Hanukkah beach party Sunday, with many calling for unity against antisemitism in Canada and around the world. Read More

Demetrios Nicolaides is the father of five elementary-age daughters, but the tumult in his life doesn't end there. Read More

Human rights lawyer — and frequent National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky — was injured in today's Australia attack that targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach and left 16 people killed, at last report. Read More

Jew Ride, a car service for the Jewish community is offering an alternative to other ridesharing companies amid reports of antisemitism in Toronto. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office has borne witness to a dramatic and unprecedented escalation in tensions between the U.S. and President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela. Read More

The last piece of land officially contested between the United States and Canada, a rocky outcropping in the Bay of Fundy called Machias Seal Island, has popped up in the news this week, delighting us lovers of bizarre legal abstractions. New Brunswick Senator Jim Quinn, a retired Coast Guard sailor and a former boss of the port of Saint John, is raging and ranting over federal government inaction in the face of a grievous American offence against Canadian sovereignty. Read More

Sometimes policy change is necessitated by reality. The welcome new entente cordiale between Ottawa and Alberta, fast tracking new energy developments, marks a pleasant example. Read More

An Inuvialuit sealskin kayak was transferred to the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) this week after a century in the collections of the Vatican Museums. Fulfilling the decision of the late Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV gave the kayak and some 60 other Indigenous artifacts as a gift to the Catholic bishops of Canada, which in turn presented them in a spirit of reconciliation to Canada’s Indigenous leaders. It was a gracious and touching moment at the CMH as Inuit men from the North laid eyes on the kayak for the first time. Read More

Statistics Canada is seeking feedback from various groups on options for releasing data collected during the last census, but not publicly shared, on transgender and nonbinary children from toddlers and pre-schoolers to young teens. Read More