Brad Neufeld, the vice-president of a Toronto-based health-care firm, was in Tel Aviv when the first sirens went off on Oct. 7, 2023. It was early Saturday morning, and Hamas terrorists had hit Israel with everything they had, murdering, raping and kidnapping civilians. Read More

Internet culture may be useful when it comes to education. Read More

The Canadian Armed Forces is no longer automatically disqualifying applicants with certain medical conditions such as allergies and ADHD, as it works to improve its numbers and grow the size of Canada's military. Read More

From inside a Canadian immigration detention facility in British Columbia, Antony Vo, an Indiana man and ardent Donald Trump supporter, was able to watch as the newly inaugurated U.S. president announced and then signed an executive order to pardon over 1,500 Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot convicts. Read More

However you interpret the American president’s threats to cripple the Canadian economy for whichever of the illogical reasons he cites, and whatever anyone makes of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he’s dead right about this: Canada needs to quickly develop a plan for retaliatory tariffs, and that means Parliament has to be immediately reconvened. Read More

LONDON — Prince Harry claimed a monumental victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life over decades and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit. Read More

MONTREAL -- A Quebec coroner says a 44-year-old Haitian man who was found dead in 2023 after trying to cross into the United States likely experienced hypothermia before drowning in shallow water. Read More

In the fifteen months since October 7, an absence of leadership has turned Toronto into a city that many don’t recognize. Even more upsetting, for some it has turned into a city where they don’t feel safe. Read More

MONTREAL -- Amazon Canada says it is closing all seven of its warehouses in Quebec over the next two months. Read More

It turns out that hula hooping comes naturally to certain people and no matter how hard others may try, they still won't be able to keep the hoop elevated for long. A new study published by researchers at New York University is explaining why. Read More

Two suspects involved in a fatal gunfight that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead near the Canadian border stayed six nights at a Vermont hotel before the highway confrontation — and were keen on privacy, always wearing medical face masks, according to hotel staff. Read More

The political left has lost its monopoly on women’s liberation. There’s no denying it any longer: the right is now the de facto champion of women’s rights.   Read More

TOKYO — A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations. As a last-ditch measure to save the popular fish, its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank. Read More

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Read More

NEW YORK — Garth Hudson, The Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as Up on Cripple Creek, The Weight and Rag Mama Rag, has died at age 87. Read More

A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of a mother and two of her daughters at their family home just north of London last year, in an attack that involved a crossbow and a knife. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally. Read More

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

If an election were called in Ontario today, a new poll suggests the voters would hand Premier Doug Ford a clear victory. Read More

First, channelling my inner Richard Nixon, once you have paid the Danegeld you will never be rid of the Dane. And if you’re going anywhere near geopolitics, you want to have such an inner voice and listen to it. I still say this deal was an error, and will cost them. Read More

There's about as much truth to Mark Carney being an outsider as there is to Christy Clark having never signed up for the Conservative party. Like Clark, who left a trail of evidence of her deceit, Carney's now undeniable long-time interests in Liberal leadership and associations with members of the party have left a fluorescent trail of breadcrumbs, raising serious questions about Carney's integrity overall and the reason he left Canada in the first place. Read More