A new Consumer Reports investigation that found lead in protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes may have you questioning whether you should start your day with that high-protein smoothie. But the nonprofit consumer organization says its report isn't cause for panic. Read More

Police and the local council in Birmingham, England’s “second city,” have cowered to the mob and banned Jewish fans from attending a soccer match. Read More

President Donald Trump set himself a grueling pace last weekend to ensure his fragile peace plan’s opening performance went off without a hitch. His mini-tour began with a twelve-hour flight to Israel, where he met with the hostage families and delivered a major address to the Knesset. This was followed by an air hop to another major address at a world leaders’ meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh. Factor in the usual schmoozing and glad-handing between formalities; it had to be a tiring day. Yet Trump looked as peppy at the end of his Middle East excursion as at the beginning. Read More

The hostages were freed. Families were reunited. Israelis were exultant, understandably so. Exhausted IDF reservists ceased fire, withdrew, and may soon return home. The increasingly pointless pulverization of Gaza paused, permitting Palestinians to return to whatever is left of their homes. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has clearly shifted away from the assertive U.S. trade stance seen on the campaign trail seven months ago to a more cautious, conciliatory approach. Read More

The House Oversight Committee released a new tranche of documents Friday collected as part of its ongoing investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

The Trump administration formally imposed 25% tariffs on imported medium and heavy-duty trucks and parts, as well as a 10% duty on buses, while extending a key tariff reprieve for American automakers. Read More

President Donald Trump said he was commuting the sentence of former Republican lawmaker George Santos, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for stealing campaign funds. Read More

Prince Andrew is giving up use of his royal titles. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government says that while it has no intention of revising its climate targets that were set under the Paris Agreement, it has also not committed to meeting them for 2030 and 2035. Read More

When you’re getting ready to play a real-life convict, you have to be ready to receive phone calls from a super-maximum security prison at any time of day. Read More

How do you start a movement? The National Healing Forest Initiative (nationalhealingforests.ca) began with a conversation between two strangers. Ten years later, there are more than 30 healing forests in Canada. Read More

From fixing your posture to finding your perfect shade of lipstick, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a powerful personal assistant if you know how to use it. Read More

Marc Bendavid was 12 years old when he saw her for the first time. Decades later, he can still vividly recall the moment when his new art teacher entered the classroom. He realizes now that this was when his life began to shift. It’s also the reason for the appearance this autumn of his uniquely personal novel, The Sapling. Read More

I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show a couple of months after it premièred in September of 1975 in the movie theatre at the Canadian Forces Base in Winnipeg. Read More

Mark Carney says that Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he travelled to Canada. Read More

U.S. media, fans and the internet just can't get enough of one of the most defining moments from the game after the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners last night. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a tough year for the lumber trade. With U.S. housing starts unusually low, demand and prices for lumber are down — even as trade costs, especially for Canadian producers, keep rising. Read More

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is quite talented at causing his enemies' minds to explode. His latest missive on social media this week pointing out that "Nazi socialism" was indeed a form of socialism set off a thousand furiously self-righteous posts. Leaving aside for the moment whether it was wise for Poilievre to make this point, it is neither inaccurate nor misleading to say that Germany's National Socialist party was "socialist" in much more than name, as much as Poilievre's left-wing critics want to pretend otherwise. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is La Cucina di Terroni by Toronto restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti with Milan-based Canadian food and travel writer Meredith Erickson. 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

Alberta has legal and constitutional pathways to seizing more power for itself within Confederation, argues a new paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, but the province would need to demonstrate that it can responsibly govern itself and its citizens, the author says. Read More

A former Sudanese politician deemed inadmissible to Canada for being a member of a party that engaged in "acts of subversion against a democratic government, institution or process” has won a reprieve. Read More