TEL AVIV, Israel -- As thumping techno music reverberated around a basement in downtown Tel Aviv, some 200 Israeli twentysomethings danced through the night despite the war with Iran upending life above. Read More

At a rate of 7.3 per cent, Canada has the highest food inflation rate in the G7 — a title it has held for two consecutive months. According to a new report, food inflation is expected to remain elevated, with items purchased from stores being a key driver for much of 2026. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberals are raising their glass to a Conservative proposal to further free the beer by allowing Canada Post to ship Canadian booze across provincial lines. Read More

Appearing before the House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage on Tuesday, former CBC host Travis Dhanraj painted a stark picture of how the public broadcaster allegedly abuses its employees, discriminates based on race and systematically attempts to silence conservative voices. Read More

OTTAWA — As the governing Liberals push to conclude their study of a controversial anti-hate bill, hundreds of Muslim organizations are voicing their opposition to the pace at which the legislation is moving ahead. Read More

The crowd shouted “hang him” as Allan Joseph Legere was led into a New Brunswick courtroom to answer for what would be his first murder. Read More

A Canadian Coast Guard captain accused of wilfully disregarding a distress call has lost his Federal Labour Relations Board grievance protesting his firing. Read More

Most people's contribution to fighting President Donald Trump’s trade war is the small but symbolic gesture of buying Canadian. Read More

OTTAWA — Former CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj told MPs Tuesday he was silenced, bullied and intimidated by senior leadership and hosts at the public broadcaster, which he says needs a "wake-up call." Read More

Has the war in Iran torpedoed a federal election in Canada? Just two weeks ago, speculation abounded that Prime Minister Mark Carney might call a vote to capitalize on sky-high polling numbers and his desire for a majority mandate. But 10 days into Operation Epic Fury, the likelihood of Canadians going to the polls this spring has radically diminished. Read More

Most Albertans support Premier Danielle Smith’s immigration-related policy proposals, including a referendum question aimed at restricting non-permanent residents from accessing health care, education and other public services in the province, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

Atlantic Canadian billionaire John Risley, whose investment firm has already sold artwork and aircraft to help pay down more than $1 billion in debt, has now put his waterfront Halifax mansion up for sale. Read More

Toronto police have released more information about an early morning shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto that Prime Minister Mark Carney called "a reprehensible act of violence and attempt at intimidation." They have also put out an image of a suspect vehicle. Read More

While the world’s attention is fixed on Tehran, a neighbouring Gulf state with a similar history of sponsoring terror is also facing a challenge to its ruling order. Read More

A Canadian sergeant convicted of assaulting his former spouse three times has been handed a conditional discharge by an Ontario judge who noted a "link between his service-related concussions and the mental health deterioration" the soldier experienced from deploying to Iraq five times and Afghanistan thrice. Read More

TEL AVIV — Bomb shelter dance parties were held throughout Israel last week in celebration of Purim, a holiday that commemorates the ancient rescue of the Jewish people from a genocidal Persian official. Despite frequent missile strikes and air-raid sirens, the festivities were defiantly joyful, epitomizing the resilience of a nation that has grown accustomed to war. Read More

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its latest stupefying ruling. According to an 8–1 majority in the case of Quebec (Attorney General) v. Kanyinda, the Charter requires the Quebec government to extend subsidized daycare benefits to refugee claimants — asylum seekers who have not yet proven the legitimacy of their claim to refugee status. Founded on a prevalent but contentious reading of constitutional equality rights, the court’s reasoning has far-reaching potential to destabilize parts of the nation’s immigration and social welfare systems. Read More

The past 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

Dr. Alecs Chochinov recently received a private message from an emergency medicine colleague who has been practising for more than a decade. "I've never been so despondent," it said. Read More

A political science professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is voicing opposition to a proposed Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS) on his campus. Read More

We shouldn’t have been too shocked when Parliament blundered into honouring a veteran of a Nazi SS unit in 2023. After the Holocaust, this country became a favoured destination for countless European war criminals. They were actually welcomed by the government. Despite their crimes, they were left to live peaceful, prosperous lives and even built monuments here to their wartime exploits. What is shocking is that almost none of them faced a single consequence for their atrocities. Read More

As Mark Carney completes a critically-important trip across the Indo-Pacific region with stops in Delhi, Canberra and Tokyo, he could have broken the ice with his hosts by quoting Kurt Russell’s trucker hero, Jack Burton, in the film Big Trouble in Little China: “I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.” Read More

War clarifies intentions and strips away illusion. The war between Iran and the West is no longer being fought in the shadows through proxies and covert disruption. The joint American and Israeli campaign is now targeting military infrastructure, command networks, nuclear facilities and senior leadership figures within the Islamic Republic. Read More

OTTAWA — A hockey-puck-shaped canister of nicotine product Zyn, not approved for sale in Canada, was the accessory of choice as Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's "Restore the North" campus tour rolled through the West Coast last week. Read More