We’re nearing year-end, and there’s much doom and gloom. Canada’s economy is falling behind its OECD peers while projected equalization numbers show all provinces from Manitoba east on the receiving end of federal transfers next year. Read More

Sport, a great equalizer, transcends politics. Or at least it should. Read More

Judaism is a Mediterranean religion — thus too is Christianity — but we forget that Mediterranean means northern hemisphere. Hanukkah’s candles are lit in the darkest days of the year, just as Christ’s birth is marked just as the days begin to get longer. Lights come into the world when the darkness is darkest. Read More

A husband and wife travelling from British Columbia to Toronto for the holidays say they were prevented from boarding a Flair Airlines flight when they showed up at the gate with two dogs and their 10-month-old daughter. Read More

For students of history, watching coverage of the tragic shooting of Jewish Australians on Bondi Beach this past weekend was a reminder of how it all started in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. Read More

Canada’s post-October 7 antisemitism crisis mirrors Australia’s. It's small wonder that the Bondi Beach Hanukkah pogrom is perceived by numerous Canadian observers as a bullet dodged. Read More

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Deck the halls with discernment, say home experts, or risk doing devastating damage. Read More

The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era policy that prohibited the use of antipersonnel land mines except on the Korean Peninsula, according to a Dec. 2 document reviewed by The Washington Post. The previously unreported memo, signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, says the reversal would give the U.S. military a “force multiplier” against enemies during “one of the most dangerous security environments in its history.” Read More

The U.S. can maintain close ties with Japan while pursuing productive engagement with China, even as tensions rise between Asia’s two largest economies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Washington had proposed the first face-to-face negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in half a year, as diplomats converged on Miami for fresh talks on ending the war. Read More

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te pledged a full, public inquiry as he visited victims in hospital on Saturday after a deadly metro stabbing attack. Read More

The first major gathering of Turning Point USA since the murder of its influential founder was supposed to bring America's right-wing activists together to celebrate the life of Charlie Kirk. Read More

Matthew Miller recently had the "very unpleasant experience" of getting infected with influenza A. "Oddly enough, as someone who has spent their whole life studying flu, this was the first time that I know for sure it was a flu infection by virtue of a diagnostic test," said Miller, who holds a Canada Research Chair in viral pandemics at McMaster University in Hamilton. Read More

Last week I carefully read the statement of strategic purpose of the Trump administration, a document published by every recent incoming administration within a year of its inauguration. The strategic statement has been received with misgivings by members of the Fortress America school that holds that the United States should be ready at all times to repulse any initiative from any potential rival country or group of countries, and by Western Europeans always on the lookout for any softening commitment of the United States to the defence of Western Europe. Read More

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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 continue a new National Post series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

Canada has been blessed by geography. Given the chance, any nation would choose the Americans as neighbours. The benefits of living next to (and being closely allied with) the greatest military and economic power in history has enriched Canada for generations, something the Mark Carney government should keep in mind as it navigates some of the more challenging aspects of having a great power for a neighbour. Read More

When Ontario resident Cindy McKay was preparing for a month in Europe this year, travelling with her 12-year-old grandson and living out of the contents of two carry-on bags, she knew she had homework to do. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Friday decision to reshuffle the senior ranks of the federal public service is both welcome and overdue. For too long, Ottawa’s machinery of government has operated on inertia rather than intention, insulated from accountability and resistant to course correction. A prime minister serious about governing cannot allow that to continue. In that sense, these changes were a necessary first step. Read More

One common feature of Ontario political commentary in recent years has been hearing people moan that they can't understand why Premier Doug Ford is so popular — the idea being that he’s so beyond the pale, so self-evidently unelectable, that only some mass delirium or psychosis could explain his government’s three very comfortable majority election wins. Read More

Heather Hiscox woke up at 2:30 in the morning for 20 years to host CBC Morning Live on CBC News Network. Each weekday, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET, she covered breaking news of national importance. The 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The 2017 Quebec City mosque attack. The weddings of Prince William and Prince Harry and the funeral for Queen Elizabeth. Ten Olympic Games. Read More

New South Wales, home to the massacre at Sydney’s Bondi Beach last Sunday, plans to ban hateful symbols and speech, as well as provide police greater powers to remove face coverings during public gatherings. Read More

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Attacks at subway stations in Taipei on Friday involving smoke bombs and stabbings killed at least three people, the Taiwanese city's fire department said, adding that the suspect was also dead. Read More