Forget matching holiday PJs or that pickle tucked in the Christmas tree. The most memorable holiday traditions don’t originate in shopping malls. They carry meaning, spark connection and don’t require maxing out your credit card. With that in mind, here are a few global holiday customs worth borrowing for your own celebrations. Read More

On a sunny afternoon in late September 2024, I joined a small group of travellers in Kluane National Park and Reserve in the Yukon for a guided Indigenous medicinal plant walk offered by Amber Berard-Althouse, a member of the Kluane First Nation. As we stood at the edge of Kathleen Lake, Berard-Althouse explained that the Southern Tutchone name for the lake, Mät’àtäna Män, means “lake captured inside” referring to the way the Kluane Mountain Range seems to cradle the lake. As I gazed across the lake at the snow-capped mountains, I couldn’t think of a better name for such a beautiful and wild reservoir. Read More

Renowned Canadian trauma-care physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté said he never "thought for a second" Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's relationship to Justin Trudeau was going to last. Read More

An Ontario woman is accused of being a serial Jellycat burglar after a police raid uncovered a large collection of the trendy plush collectible toys at her home, worth an estimated $7,500. Read More

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Dec. 11 is the anniversary of the Statute of Westminster. Other than the reappearance of the Union Jack on a few of the country’s flagpoles, the day will pass unheralded, largely unnoticed, by Canada’s leaders and 40 million citizens. Read More

When police kicked down the front door of a London, Ont., townhouse in July 2024, a trail of blood on the floor and walls led them to an upstairs bedroom, where they found the near-lifeless body of Breanna Broadfoot. Read More

At least five Canadian cities are vying to host a new defence-oriented world bank that could create up to 3,500 jobs, the National Post has learned. Read More

In his bill designed to “keep kids safe from predators,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser has proposed that Canada get rid of the six-month minimum for rape of a child under 16 — and every other minimum on the books other than for murder and treason. Read More

Ecuador is today confronting one of the most difficult internal battles in its modern history: the fight against powerful narco-terrorist organizations that, for more than a decade, infiltrated ports, prisons and parts of the national economy. Under President Daniel Noboa, the country has undertaken the most forceful and comprehensive effort yet to dismantle these criminal structures. That essential context has been missing in some recent reporting, including suggestions that organized crime networks once infiltrated commercial containers related to a banana exporter owned by the president’s family. Read More

It is a rare thing to have one’s mind changed by a politician. In the words of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, MPs are “nobodies…like pawns in a chess game.” Read More

Canada has an abysmal record of distorting and then forgetting its own history. The worst part is that this erasure wasn’t accidental. It was done deliberately — ostensibly with the best of intentions. Read More

As Vladimir Putin’s multiple-front “special military operation” in Ukraine approaches its bloody fourth anniversary and the United States retreats further from traditional American ideals into the backwaters of transactional cynicism, there’s a hard lesson to be drawn from the ongoing dissolution of the transatlantic alliance. Read More

Since its announcement, questions have been swirling about whether Canadian Museum for Human Rights' upcoming exhibit, "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present," will be grounded in historical fact, and the mysterious group whose expertise and support are backing it — the Palestinian Content Advisory Network. Unsurprisingly, an organization with a history of antisemitism and support for terrorism has come forward as one of the contributors. Read More

OTTAWA— While U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is free to do as it wants with its review of purchasing the F-35, he says the debate is nevertheless irritating.  Read More

The battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has already lit a fire in Hollywood, with unions decrying the potential job losses, theatres sounding an alarm about the future of film releases and actors worrying about free speech. Read More

U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries. Read More

A Canadian woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her to have surgery in the United States. Read More

Bestselling Canadian children’s author Robert Munsch says readers can look forward to more of his stories after his death. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. lawmakers are set to vote Wednesday on a sweeping annual defence bill bolstering European security, in a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump's threats to walk away from the continent and his statements casting doubt on NATO's future. Read More

Let no one say the federal Liberals didn’t keep their promise. And let no one say Prime Minister Mark Carney has abandoned Justin Trudeau’s feminism, despite declining to attach the F-word to his foreign policy. The Liberals’ 2025 election campaign platform promised to “protect victims of sexual violence and intimate partner violence by making murder motivated by hate a … first-degree offence, including femicide." (“Including femicide” is a strangely tacked-on phrase that might have indicated just how seriously they were considering demands that murdering women be established as a whole separate crime.) Read More

OTTAWA — Business executive Mark Wiseman has not yet been confirmed as Canada’s ambassador in the U.S. but early signs point to a chilly reception from opposition parties — especially Quebec MPs — because of past comments on immigration and supply management. Read More

OTTAWA — Activist Yves Engler says he has no plans to step aside after the NDP rejected his bid to join the party's ongoing leadership race. Read More