Galle, Sri Lanka —  A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 87 sailors and leaving dozens missing, officials said. Read More

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a broad 10 per cent tariff rate to 15 per cent will likely be done this week. Read More

Washington — The U.S. Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution aimed at curbing U.S. President Donald Trump's authority to continue military strikes on Iran, in the first congressional test of support for a conflict launched without explicit approval from lawmakers. Read More

Gas prices in Canada are already rising — nine cents per litre since Saturday — as the attacks on Iran entered their fifth day. Dan McTeague, a former Liberal MP and president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, predicted that initial increase and says more is on the way this week. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel increase the risks of Iranian-linked terrorism throughout North America, and while Canadian agencies have not issued a public statement, U.S. agencies have said they are on heightened alert. Read More

After a “turn for the worse” late last week, Tumbler Ridge mass shooting survivor Maya Gebala was showing signs of improvement early this week, even intently watching some favourite shows from her hospital bed, her parents shared. Read More

The answer to whether or not Canada supports the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a murderous regime that sponsors terrorism in the Middle East and around the world, has been  needlessly complicated. Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have settled on somewhere between "Yes, but" and "sort of." Read More

U.S. Army Reserve Command released images of the four U.S. soldiers killed in the war on Iran. Read More

The Assembly of Experts, the Iranian body of clerics tasked with selecting a new supreme leader after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly picked his son as the most likely candidate. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More

More relieved passengers arrived home from the Gulf region on Wednesday as further flights resumed five days into the war triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Read More

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday they had total control of the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global energy transit, as Israel launched a new wave of strikes on the Iranian capital. Read More

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says it isn't easy dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump, but that the president is more direct in private than he is in public. Read More

Let’s begin with a blunt question: Does Donald Trump hate Canada? Read More

Stop right now and erase everything you thought you knew about Iran. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking his message that middle power countries must form new coalitions to counter the United States' power to Australian lawmakers today. Read More

There appears to be a dark storm gathering over not only Jewish communities in Canada, but Iranian-Canadians who oppose the Islamic regime. Read More

I was a little torn reading in the Hamilton Spectator about the latest blow to “Christopher’s Law,” the Ontario statute from 2000 that created a provincial sex-offender registry. The law was named for Christopher Stevenson, an 11-year-old boy who was abducted and murdered by a man just released from prison for an earlier sex crime against an 11-year-old. Laws named after individual crime victims are usually lousy ones, but Justice Davin Garg’s ruling has a slightly fantastical quality. Compelled by a recent Supreme Court ruling against lifetime mandatory registration for sex offenders in a parallel federal database, Garg found he had no choice but to strike down the analogous mandatory-registration requirement in the Ontario law. Read More

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would provide insurance guarantees and naval escorts to ensure safe passage for oil tankers and other vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, intending to head off a potential energy crisis caused by the war with Iran. Read More

MacDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski is being widely mocked online for a video he shared promoting the fast food chain's newest burger, the Big Arch. Read More

Good news from the hockey world: Plans for the 2028 World Cup are proceeding apace. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in Calgary on Tuesday, where Mayor Jeromy Farkas made his pitch for the city to play host in its brand-new arena, Scotia Place, which is set to open at the beginning of the 2027–28 NHL season. But it doesn’t really matter where they hold the tournament; the vast majority of us will watch on television. And it should be terrific. Read More

Ontario’s sex offender registry law will need to be overhauled by the legislature after it was ruled unconstitutional by the Ontario Court of Justice in a January 29 ruling. Read More

Back at the end of November when Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU), it was presented as the best of all possible worlds: Canada would get a new oil pipeline and reduced carbon emissions. Read More