An Ontario senior found not criminally responsible for attacking three housemates with a hammer before he tried to punch a police officer and kicked a nurse in the face has been discharged. Read More

The U.S. election had just ended and Pete Hoekstra was on a bit of a high. He’d taken charge of a divided Republican Party in Michigan and, with his team, helped steer the key battleground state to Donald Trump. Read More

Public order is in a calamitous state, and Justice Minister Sean Fraser is only pretending to make an effort to solve it. Read More

Almost two months since the pomp and optimism surrounding the signing of U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan for the Middle East, things seem to be stuck. 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

In 2023, the Treasury Board of Canada’s program spending on diversity, equity and inclusion was roughly 100 times what it was in 2016. Public Safety Canada’s was about 40 times higher. The federal Crown prosecution service spent 20 times more. Read More

United States National Security Strategy (NSS) statements tend to be provided by a presidential administration a year or so into its new term. Written by committee and required by law, they often resemble a Christmas tree of policy baubles and ornamental statements of how America is going to make the world a better place. Read More

Playing politics with pipelines is a time-honored Canadian tradition. Tuesday’s events in the House of Commons offered a delightful twist on the genre.  Read More

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action. Read More

1. FILM: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Dec. 12, Netflix) Read More

OTTAWA — If there’s one person who won’t be receiving any Conservative MP Christmas cards, it’s Markham–Unionville MP Michael Ma. Read More

There’s just something about Mary — Poppins, that is. The spirited nanny first soared onto screens 64 years ago, charming audiences with her cheery outlook, catchy songs and magical way with children. Read More

OTTAWA — The first section of Canada’s proposed high-speed rail project will link the regions of Ottawa to Montreal, a decision that is not only symbolic but practical, said Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon on Friday. Read More

U.S. House Democrats have released a tranche of new photos from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein that include President Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon and Larry Summers. Read More

Michael Ma's floor crossing from the Conservatives to the Liberals was so shameless, it's almost worthy of respect. There was no issue of conscience that Ma was wrestling with, no loud calls from his constituents that he must aid Prime Minister Mark Carney's quest for a majority, no apparent fallout with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. In fact, there doesn't appear to be any reason at all, least of all a defensible one, for why the rookie MP, having just been elected less than eight months ago, needed to change parties. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still supports Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ahead of his high-stakes leadership review, despite her quibbles about his recent motion endorsing an oil pipeline to the West Coast. Read More

Lululemon Athletica Inc. shares rallied after the pricey yoga-wear maker boosted its full-year outlook and announced that its chief executive officer would step down after a period of sluggish growth. Read More

In a functioning parliamentary democracy, disagreement is inevitable. Conscience matters. Debate matters. But loyalty matters too. Without it, politics collapses into opportunism, and public trust erodes. 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

Britain's King Charles III, who has broken royal taboos to talk openly about battling cancer, will Friday appear in a "personal message" filmed for a TV campaign raising funds for research into the devastating disease. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Christmas Companion by Skye McAlpine. Read More

A Toronto woman says her luggage was tossed out of a vehicle by an Uber driver when he heard her speaking Hebrew to her husband. The driver then refused to take them home from the airport after they arrived from a trip in the middle of the night in February. Read More

Across Canada, there are millions of dollars worth of U.S.-made alcoholic products gathering dust in warehouses, all of it pulled from liquor store shelves in most provinces in retaliation for sweeping U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. Read More

Statistics Canada doesn’t appear to trust Canadians when it comes to gender diversity, according to a troubling consultation document compiled by the agency. Read More