It’s one of the most familiar tropes in cinema — the fish out of water. But it gets a refreshing twist in the movie The Mother and the Bear, a surreal-flavoured comedy-drama in which an overbearing Korean mother travels to windswept, frigid Winnipeg to be by the side of her comatose daughter, Sumi, injured by a fall on the city’s slippery streets. Once there, she hits on a scheme to catfish an eligible Korean-Canadian man to be Sumi’s boyfriend when she recovers. Read More

Cheryl Petruk never planned to become a magazine publisher or the founder of a not-for-profit organization. She was working as a HR professional in 1991 when her husband, Eugene Petruk was diagnosed with a rare slow-growing blood cancer that is in a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Read More

Even if you don’t make New Year’s resolutions, January is a natural reset point, whether you want to focus on health, finances or your spiritual well-being. Look to some of these Canadian authors for advice, inspiration or motivation. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump took a swipe at Canada during a White House event to mark the Stanley Cup victory by the Florida Panthers, their second win in as many years over the Edmonton Oilers. The last time a Canadian team won the cup was in 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens were victorious over the L.A. Kings. Read More

How about instead of becoming the 51st American state, Canada becomes the 23rd Chinese province? Read More

BEIJING AND OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded furiously on Friday to a trade deal announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney to allow some Chinese electric vehicles into Canada. 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

Our cookbook of the week is Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America by Sean Sherman with Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly. Read More

A Jewish advocacy group says there have been 32 reported antisemitic incidents in Canada this past week alone and is asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to act urgently. Read More

More than a third of Canadians would like citizenship in more than one country, but about the same proportion think someone with dual citizenship is less loyal to Canada, according to a new national public opinion poll. Read More

A former CBC human resources employee is suing the national broadcaster claiming he was forced to leave a work environment so toxic and discriminatory there was a designated “crying room” so employees could deal with office stress. Read More

In 2005, at the age of 17, Michael Williams participated in the torturous murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. He lured the girl from West Edmonton Mall to a golf course with four of his friends. A member of the group hit Courtepatte in the head with a wrench, knocking her to the ground; Williams and one of his companions then raped her as the others held her down. After further torture (including numerous cuts to the face), Williams and co. bludgeoned her in the head with a hammer until she died. Read More

The wind of change is upon us. The Islamic Revolution is over, either now or in the next few years. The walls are caving in on the Iranian terrorist regime and with it, the radical Muslim Brotherhood ideology that gives it life. It's not without coincidence that the United Arab Emirates boldly issued a statement this week welcoming the U.S. designation of several Muslim Brotherhood branches as terrorist organizations. Read More

OTTAWA — A new rocket startup to be launched Friday says it plans to soon become the first Canadian company to have the capacity to launch medium-payload satellites in space, filling in a potentially important niche in Canada’s defence. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Court of Appeal Chief Justice de Montigny is expected to deliver a decision Friday on the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests. Read More

1. FILM: Charlie the Wonderdog (Jan. 16) Read More

BEIJING — Certain Canadian canola products, seafoods and even Canadians will soon flow faster to China, while Chinese electric vehicles will begin trickling into Canada virtually tariff-free, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced hours after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read More

RCMP documents connected to the investigation into disappearance of Nova Scotia children Jack and Lilly Sullivan, are now showing that their mother told police her ex common-law partner was sometimes physically violent with her. Read More

Donald Trump accepted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize medal at a White House meeting on Thursday in a bid to win over the U.S. president who had sidelined her since overthrowing Nicolas Maduro. Read More

Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old Iranian clothing merchant, was arrested one week ago at his home in the city of Fardis. He is believed to have been charged with colluding against the country's security activities and tried within days. Read More

Another tremendous moment in Canadian justice: Douglas Worth, 73 years old, once dubbed “the Pictou Sadist” after his hometown in Nova Scotia, is out on parole and living in Dartmouth, N.S. He has been out since July and, as National Post reported this week, recently had that parole extended — despite the parole board finding him to be an “above-average risk” to reoffend. Read More

A California start-up company is offering travellers an early reservation at a proposed hotel on the moon. But there's a hefty deposit of $1,000,000 required. And the tentative opening date isn't for another six years. Read More

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra delivered another blunt assessment of the Canada-U.S. relationship during a wide-ranging radio interview this week, saying the U.S “does not need Canada,” even as he praised the nations’ deep economic relationship. Read More