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

A piece of legislation making its way through Ottawa this fall and set to come into effect in January, if not earlier, will restore and grant Canadian citizenship to thousands of people around the world who were previously shut out by an earlier rule. Read More

A nation’s highest purpose is not improving takeout menus, but you might be fooled by listening to the talk in the English-speaking world.   Read More

Re: Judges suing Ottawa for fatter salaries are shameless — John Ivison, Dec. 8 Read More

HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city 's once-diverse political landscape. Read More

This year, the holidays are decked out in red, green, and Ralph Lauren. A trend embracing the classic American brand’s aesthetic is taking over social media, fuelling shopping sprees and inspiring think pieces in publications from People magazine to the New York Times. Read More

If you’re a media critic, it’s easy to dismiss an actor who likes to talk in a man-baby voice. Who likes a good groin injury joke, who delivers news commentary as an opera aria. But if you’re an Adam Sandler fan, that kind of stuff can make him a hero for an entire generation. Read More

Two American troops and a civilian interpreter were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged member of the Islamic State group opened fire on a joint U.S.-Syrian patrol, officials said. Read More

European officials are growing concerned that an emerging U.S.-brokered peace deal in Ukraine could be exploited by Russia, paving the way for a re-invasion of territory in the war-battered nation’s eastern Donbas region. Read More

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders this weekend in Berlin, according to a White House official, as President Donald Trump intensifies his push for a peace deal. Read More

For nearly a decade, Jolene Van Alstine has been on an exhausting journey through Saskatchewan's health-care system, in search of treatment for a rare and debilitating parathyroid disease. Read More

Younger Canadians are generally less trusting than older people, according to a recent survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies. Read More

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is not giving up the fight to change the federal system of equalization payments to the provinces. Read More

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