A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure. Read More

Israel expects to move to the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan soon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, adding that he would discuss “opportunities for peace” with President Donald Trump when he meets him later this month. Read More

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on deadly U.S. airstrikes against alleged drug-running boats off the Venezuelan coast, saying he would have made the same call as the admiral who ordered survivors to be killed. Read More

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Sunday after arriving in Israel on Saturday night for his first visit to the Jewish state since taking office in May. Read More

Air Transat said it will gradually cease operations starting Monday after its pilots issued a 72-hour strike notice this weekend, raising the prospect of a walkout on Wednesday morning. Read More

Thomas Lukaszuk, leader of the successful Forever Canada citizens petition, has been invited to Ottawa by the Prime Minister’s Office to explain what exactly is going on in the province. Read More

The Liberal government’s plan, at the behest of the Bloc Québécois, to remove the religious faith exemption from the Criminal Code prohibition on hate speech ran into unexpected and formidable opposition this week. A House committee meeting was abruptly cancelled on Thursday, leaving the future of the amendment, and the Liberals' hate speech bill itself, in question. Read More

In September, public intellectual Helen Andrews caused a stir when she delivered a provocative 17-minute speech, titled “Overcoming the Feminization of Culture,” to the National Conservatism Conference, later published as an article for Compact, titled “The Great Feminization.” Read More

Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on game-changing people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oilsands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting transformed millions of lives; Loblaws changed how we live. Today, we launch a new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

Re: Hegseth's use of 'Canadian icon' Franklin the Turtle in a meme deemed 'violent' by publisher — Kenn Oliver, Dec. 2 Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three per cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax took effect. The repeal was a strategic move to restart stalled negotiations with the United States, which soon resumed after Carney’s announcement but were again disrupted later ... by a Ronald Reagan ad. Despite removing the DST to ease tensions, Carney has little to show for it. Read More

London police said four people were arrested Saturday after food -- purportedly apple crumble and custard -- was thrown at a display case containing Britain's priceless Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. Read More

Oslo -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding in her country, has confirmed she will travel to Oslo to receive her Nobel Peace Prize, the head of the Nobel Institute told AFP on Saturday. Read More

The leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in London on Monday to discuss US efforts to reach a peace deal after Russia carried out another round of massive attacks. Read More

Ukraine says it hit the Ryazan region oil refinery, while Russia's military conducted a massive attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Read More

Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming platform’s annual summation of user listening habits presents data on most listened-to songs and artists. The feature of this year's report that has become the talk of the town is the inclusion of the listener's so-called “listening age.” Read More

Federal politics has been abuzz since the National Post’s scoop that the governing Liberals have struck a deal with the Bloc Québécois to pass their hate crime reform bill by eliminating the special defence of religious belief to the criminal charge of wilful promotion of hate. Civil society and religious groups have expressed concern that the move puts the faithful at legal risk and could chill religious discourse with the threat of prosecution. The National Post explains the religious defence, where it came from, how it has been used, and how it guides controversial prosecutorial decisions about criminal hate speech. Read More

In their attempt to protect vulnerable Canadians from hate crimes, the Liberals are planning to criminalize faith. Read More

Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on game-changing people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oil sands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting transformed millions of lives; Loblaws changed how we live. Today, we launch a new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

Happy almost Bill of Rights Day! On Dec. 15, 1791, 10 amendments to the then-new United States Constitution were ratified in a deal to win acceptance of a frame of government to replace the unstable Articles of Confederation. Now known as the Bill of Rights, those amendments place limits, however imperfectly, on government. Read More

Readers will recall that I was censorious of Prime Minister Mark Carney's histrionic emulation of Winston Churchill during the election campaign, lacking only the siren-suit, the cigar and the eloquence, as he promised to lead Canada with raised elbows “in the fields and in the streets,” as he engaged U.S. President Donald Trump, whom he claimed was “trying to break us.” I have since been happy to commend the prime minister for enunciating a policy of promoting the intelligent exploitation and export of the treasure trove of Canada's natural resources, while protecting the environment. Read More

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Cancer. Read More

OTTAWA — A new report from an expert panel struck to help guide the Liberals’ efforts to ban firearms shows the government appears to have ignored parts of its advice when it comes to certain makes of the SKS semi-automatic rifle. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has had Europe in his crosshairs since beginning a second White House term earlier this year. Read More