UnitedHealthcare has named a new CEO after its former top executive Brian Thompson was shot to death on his way to a conference in New York City. Read More

OTTAWA — A simmering dispute over the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged resort town of Jasper, Alta., spilled into public view this week after Alberta housing minister Jason Nixon fired off a letter accusing both federal and local officials of stalling progress in housing displaced residents. Read More

TEL AVIV — The Hamas terrorist group on Friday published the names of four hostages it said it would release the following day as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Read More

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Read More

LONDON — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. were urged to stay at home Friday as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions. Read More

It's been weeks since Liam Mooney and Emma Cochrane dreamt up the hat with the message that Canada is not for sale. It has gone viral and resulted in a crash course in manufacturing for the couple. Read More

Rising antisemitism in the United States has spurred a deep-dive into the portrayal of Jews on television through a study, which warns against using tropes associating Jews with money and power, among its six recommendations. Read More

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines launched a comic book on Friday to counter what the country says is China's disinformation campaign to push its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump to justify his early call. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Romy Gill’s India: Recipes From Home by chef, writer and broadcaster Romy Gill. 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

Many Canadians go to great lengths to seek them out, traipsing through the forest with pocket knives at the ready as soon as the snow begins to melt. Yet, fiddleheads have their fair share of detractors. Canada's spring delicacy joins Finnish blood dumplings, an Italian cartilage-and-tendon salad and a halved Icelandic sheep's head on TasteAtlas's 100 Worst Rated Foods in the World list. Read More

In the week that Donald Trump’s inauguration ushered in a new world order, John Ivison is joined by Robert Asselin, senior vice-president at the Business Council of Canada and a former adviser to ex-finance minister Bill Morneau, to talk about the policy implications for Canada. Read More

A week after Doug Ford’s Ontario government passed legislation in early December ordering all supervised injection sites within 200 metres of schools and daycares to close, harm reduction activists did the expected and announced they were taking the province to court. Read More

POLAND — The afternoon sun broke through northern Poland's grey skies as we walked into a golden-yellow field hedged by massive evergreens. Birds quietly chirped in the brush. Some in the group were draped in Canadian and Israeli flags as we entered the clearing where Chełmno once stood. Read More

Last week, Brodie Fenlon, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, announced that his organization plans to hire up to 30 local journalists in "underserved communities" with the $7 million in new funding it will receive from Google due to the Online News Act. Read More

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The drug epidemic and addiction crisis have quickly become a defining issue of Canada’s relationship with the United States. President Donald Trump has committed to implementing a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods, citing a need to stem the flow of the deadly and highly profitable drug fentanyl between the countries. Both Canada and the United States have seen a consistent increase in usage of the drug over the last 10 years, along with increased manufacturing, trafficking, and dealing of this deadly poison. Read More

The evidence surrounding the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones in children and teens identifying as transgender is of such low certainty it's impossible to conclude whether the drugs help or harm, Canadian researchers are reporting. Read More

As Canadian politicians try to come up with a response to Donald Trump's tariff threat, a sticking point has emerged over a significant Canadian retaliatory option: limiting exports of Canadian oil and gas to the U.S. Read More

OTTAWA — She smiles. She has wings. And she might be ready to guide you to your eternal resting place. Read More

OTTAWA — The idea of becoming prime minister of Canada in a matter of weeks despite having never won an election does not seem to worry former central banker Mark Carney, who says he has started at the top many times in his career. Read More

Kraft Heinz Co. said it’s “deeply disappointed” in Justin Trudeau after the prime minister threw a metaphorical tomato at the food manufacturer while discussing trade relations with the U.S. Read More

DALLAS -- President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades. Read More