OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Anita Anand said she welcomes different viewpoints ahead of a Friday meeting with her party's caucus, after her government’s shifting stance on the Iranian conflict has faced criticism. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says he's paying no mind to perceived tensions between Aboriginal title and private property rights in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, despite having skin in the game as someone who maintains two residences in the area. Read More

A survey of 25 countries by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center has found that Americans are most likely to rate others living in their country as morally or ethically bad. In fact, it was the only country where more people defined others as bad than good. Read More

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Justice Department released additional files Thursday related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including previously withheld FBI interview summaries containing uncorroborated allegations that U.S. President Donald Trump sexually assaulted a minor decades ago. Read More

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the war with Iran in a post on social media that demanded Tehran capitulate as US and Israeli airstrikes continue. 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

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Our cookbook of the week is Franco Pepe: Pizza Chef by the founder of the famed Italian pizzeria Pepe in Grani. Read More

Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: Read More

TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney, on an ongoing mission to bring together the world's middle powers, brought out his rusty Japanese skills as he met his counterpart and enjoyed a Canadian-inspired birthday cake in Tokyo.  Read More

A Toronto lawyer linked to a mortgage fraud later cited as motive in a deadly 2024 triple shooting has failed to convince the Law Society of Ontario to lift his suspension. Read More

On Tuesday morning, a fresh shockwave passed over Canadian pediatric medicine, which has had a difficult start to the year 2026. In January, the New Yorker published an investigative piece by Pulitzer-winning feature writer Ben Taub. Taub’s article describes a long-running feud between the disgraced doctor Gideon Koren, founder of the ill-fated Motherisk lab at Toronto Sick Kids, and his former colleague and co-author David Juurlink, a Sunnybrook Hospital and U of Toronto pharmacologist. Read More

Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status. Read More

A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Read More

Like the Members of Parliament in Ottawa, the 105 members of Canada’s Senate are getting a pay raise on April 1. Read More

"Violence is not the path to achieving peace." This is what we are hearing, mainly from the left, about the U.S./Israel-led attack on Iran. I believe diplomacy and peace are preferred to violence and war, but sadly, sometimes force is the only way stop very bad people. When confronting absolute evil, we must never forget the lessons of the Holocaust.   Read More

History will not judge governments solely by quarterly economic data, polling swings or even administrative missteps. It judges them by whether they reshaped the moral and civic architecture of society. By that standard, the legacy of Quebec Premier François Legault will endure long after today’s headlines fade. Read More

Journalistic tradition dictates that the New Democratic Party be treated as an organization of consequence, with lengthy historical roots and some significant achievements. Lately it hasn't been acting like it, though. Its standing in the House of Commons slipped to fourth place three elections ago and shows little sign of revival. Its seven paltry seats aren't enough to qualify for official recognition. Its finances are dire. To its more successful provincial cousins it's become an unwelcome distraction. Read More

For years, Europe has endured President Donald Trump’s complaints that it is a complacent continent hiding under America’s security umbrella. Now, as he launches the first open-ended military campaign of his presidency, its leaders find themselves holding something he still needs: their bases, airspace and strategic geography. Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Organizers of the Milan-Cortina Paralympics confirmed on Thursday that seven countries will boycott the opening ceremony in protest at Russian athletes being allowed to compete under their own flag for the first time since 2014. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff General Jennie Carignan said she will be meeting with her European counterparts on Friday morning to discuss military options to support Gulf states. But Carignan ruled out any Canadian military involvement in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a major legal challenge to the fresh global tariffs he imposed on goods entering the U.S. after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier sweeping duties last month. Read More

Iran launched a fresh wave a missile and drone strikes across the Gulf on Thursday evening with attacks reported in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar. Read More

OTTAWA — Violent crime and property theft rates remain stubbornly high across multiple provinces and territories, and Canadians are losing confidence in the authorities to do anything about it, finds a new report on the state of criminal justice in Canada.  Read More