I am a physician-researcher focused on the epidemiology of chronic diseases, especially inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an incurable and often debilitating condition in which the immune system attacks the gut. Humans have an evolved talent for spotting patterns in a chaotic world, and epidemiologists like myself harness that instinct to uncover associations in complex health data. Those associations help us understand why diseases develop, how trends change over time, and which exposures or interventions might alter risk or outcomes in practice. Read More

In the early days of the modern Olympic Games, a gold medal was also a precious metal -- a gleaming, solid-gold prize for a triumphant amateur athlete. Read More

In Greenland, making eye contact and lifting your eyebrows is as good as saying “hi there.” Just beware; wiggling your arches is considered flirting.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump was set to preside in Washington Thursday morning over the first Board of Peace meeting, where officials were expected to discuss Phase 2 of his Gaza plan. Read More

The Iranian regime “would be very wise” to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned on Wednesday, speaking amid indirect Washington-Tehran nuclear talks and a massive U.S. military buildup in the Mideast. 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

Not all egg salad sandwiches are created equally. Japan's celebrated convenience stores have more than proven this point. None other than the late Anthony Bourdain was among the tamago sando's devoted fans, once calling konbini (convenience store) egg salad sandwiches "pillows of love." In good news for Canadians, partaking in the ultra-creamy egg salad tucked between crustless slices of soft and fluffy milk bread no longer requires a plane ticket. The iconic tamago sando is coming to 7-Eleven Canada locations nationwide on March 4. Read More

MILAN - It may take Canadians a few days to get to the Olympics, but once they arrive, they move in swarms. Read More

MILAN — To no surprise, Canadian men's team captain Sidney Crosby missed practice on Thursday, a session that's expected to be the squad's lone tune-up before its Friday semifinal against Finland at the Milan-Cortina Games. Read More

The federal government is being called on to send aid to Cuba in the wake of tightening restrictions against the Caribbean island nation by the United States. Read More

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the U.K.’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged. Read More

MILAN - It has been the overriding mission statement of Hockey Canada's women's program since its inception, though never has it been put to the test quite like this. Read More

An interesting nugget of public-opinion research arrives from McGill’s public-transit lab, with respect to the federal government’s high-speed rail (HSR) plan — perhaps the flashiest project so far announced under the umbrella of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “Major Projects Office.” Read More

From the hills near Metula, Israel’s northernmost town, distance is not measured in kilometers but in seconds. I know this not as a metaphor, but from standing there myself — looking out at the Lebanese border and realizing how impossibly close it is. Neither a map nor a military briefing is needed to see the danger. You need only look up. Read More

A Bangladeshi immigrant deported from Canada two decades ago after the refugee claim he made using a false identity was rejected has won another shot at keeping the Canadian citizenship he obtained after marrying a woman in Bangladesh five months later who had permanent residency status here. Read More

The Alberta father who severed his daughter’s esophagus and punctured her lung is currently enjoying freedom as he awaits his sentence. This wasn’t for his family’s lack of trying: after he was granted bail by a nonchalant judge (after which he made a series of social media posts admitting his guilt), a relative tried getting him detained on mental health grounds. He was taken in for a psychiatric evaluation — only to be released shortly afterward. Read More

Recently, Meta’s Canadian policy head was interviewed by David Cochrane on CBC’s Power & Politics program. The interview began with news that Meta and the Canadian government are back at the negotiating table over paying publishers for content after banning them from the platform for two-and-a-half years. Read More

You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, as the old baseball saying goes, so let’s pause and catch up with the chaos on the fringes of the House of Commons. The chamber contains seats for 343 bums, meaning that a party needs 172 members to have a technical majority. The Liberals stood at 169 when the votes in the 2025 were finally counted, or so it seemed. In November Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals, raising their total to 170 (which, with a few opposition MPs abstaining, was enough to pass the budget a few weeks later). Markham-Unionville’s Michael Ma followed d’Entremont across the aisle on Dec. 11, making the count 171. Read More

OTTAWA — New polling released by a coalition that includes children's health-care groups suggests an overwhelming majority of Canadians say they would support instituting a minimum age to use social media as well as the establishment of regulator to provide oversight of tech platforms. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you listen to U.S. President Donald Trump discuss American jobs, see headlines about a fabled “soft landing” in the U.S., or hear Prime Minister Mark Carney talk about creating jobs and reducing unemployment, you might think North America’s labour markets are healthy. Read More

OTTAWA — The five contenders to lead the NDP will meet on Thursday evening in British Columbia's Lower Mainland for the second and final official debate of the party leadership campaign. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday gathers allies to inaugurate the Board of Peace, his new institution focused on progress on Gaza but whose ambitions reach much further. Read More

Here’s something the rest of the curling world didn’t want to hear … Read More

PUTLOS, Germany — Thousands of NATO troops including from Spain and Turkey joined an exercise Wednesday on Germany's Baltic coast that defence officials labelled a show of readiness to deter Russia. Read More