Israeli security forces have imposed a “complete siege and cordon” on the Palestinian city of Qabatiya in northern Samaria, from where a terrorist set out on his killing spree in northern Israel the previous day, Defence Minister Israel Katz stated on Saturday evening. Read More

On Boxing Day, a pro-Palestinian mob took over the Eaton Centre, one of Canada’s busiest and most iconic public spaces, chanting for “intifada” in the heart of Toronto. Not on the fringes. Not quietly. In the middle of a mall filled with families, workers, tourists, and holiday shoppers. Read More

The U.K. will launch a military "gap year" scheme, as part of efforts to boost recruitment and reconnect young people with defence, the government said Saturday. Read More

Immediately following surprise U.S. strikes targeting militants in Nigeria, it remained unclear who or what was actually hit as Washington and Abuja told slightly different stories. Read More

Russia pummelled Ukraine's capital with drones and missiles on Saturday, killing a woman and cutting power to hundreds of thousands, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's latest talks with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more financial aid for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Halifax on Saturday. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest public-sector union blasted the top government department as “hypocritical” for refusing to say how many of its employees received notice of a potential layoff weeks ago. Read More

After the October 7 attacks in Israel, Aviva Klompas noticed that rather than sympathy and support, what surfaced was a "disturbing undercurrent of Jew hatred that was apparently lying dormant in Canada." Read More

Iconic American intellectual Norman Podhoretz died earlier this month, peacefully at 95. Reading this news, I recalled a luncheon conversation with my then colleague George Jonas, whose brilliance and wit graced these pages from 2001 until his death in 2016, during which he asked me to rank the formative intellectual influences that had steered me towards conservatism as my default mindset. I named several writers, but Podhoretz led the pack.  Read More

In 2024, Colorado passed legislation to, supposedly, protect consumers from discrimination by artificial intelligence (AI). Arguably, the law does more to require the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology (DEI) into the growing technology than to protect people from anything. That has the White House worried that state and local micromanagers will cripple innovation with politicized mandates. In response, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to standardize and limit AI regulation across the country. It’s a promising approach, but it needs firmer support from congressional action. Read More

“Bondi was a warning shot,” cautions Cary Kogan, professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa. “If Western governments aren’t going to deal with the issue (of antisemitism), this is what we’re going to end up with. And I worry; the intelligence community has told us very clearly that there are bad actors here in Canada, and you know, the government needs to listen.” Read More

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol produced a series of 32 paintings that glamorized the simple Campbell’s soup can. Now, in the mid 2020s, a new movement is elevating food packaging to a means for creative expression. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to meet with U,S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday in pursuit of a deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year invasion, though the latest comments from Moscow raise doubts about how close a final agreement really is. Read More

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday she is expecting her second child, becoming the first person in the high-profile role to be pregnant. Read More

France has opened an investigation into a British e-commerce site suspected of selling sex dolls with childlike features, Paris prosecutors told AFP on Friday. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Friday that the Jewish state recognized Somaliland, becoming the first country to recognize the self-declared Horn of Africa nation. Read More

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hard hat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster. Read More

Two people were killed and two wounded in a series of terror attacks involving ramming and stabbing in northern Israel on Friday. Read More

President Donald Trump said U.S. forces conducted "powerful and deadly" strikes Thursday against Islamic State "terrorists" in northwestern Nigeria, weeks after he warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country. Read More

For the second time this month, mezuzahs affixed to the doorways of Jewish homes in Toronto have been stolen in what police say they are investigating as a potential hate crime. Read More

This week, mezuzahs were ripped off the doors of multiple units in a Toronto condo tower. The victims included Jewish seniors, among them Holocaust survivors. Police attended, interviews were conducted, and the incidents were correctly treated as hate crimes. Read More

Although a ban on boiling live lobsters is set to come to the U.K., a Canadian fisherman says similar legislation will never pass in Canada. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Could they really break up Canada? Read More

British Columbia recently mandated that, starting from the end of this month, most “safer supply” drugs must be consumed under medical supervision in an effort to keep them from being diverted to the black market. While this reform is laudable and will help keep dangerous opioids off Canadian streets, it is reprehensible that the province dragged its feet for years here. Read More