This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the "Dartmouth Massacre" on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: "These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures." Read More

A new study by Dalhousie University in Halifax finds that the average Canadian household throws away $761 worth of food every year based on best-before and expiration dates, but that almost a third of that is owing to confusion over what those dates actually mean. Read More

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There is room for real concern in the agitation to disseminate do-it-yourself sex assault kits, the latest front in what militant feminists hold to be a righteous counterattack on male sexual predation, and many men regard as an escalation of the arch-feminists’ campaign to emasculate and terrify Canadian men. There is now a widely supported proposal to make these kits, which facilitate taking DNA samples from relevant places in the female anatomy that can be used to strengthen allegations of sexual assault and packaging them at home by aggrieved sexual assault complainants. Read More

Museums are Canada’s greatest stewards of public history. But in the past decade, increasingly overbearing cultural policies have rewritten their mandates. Once dedicated to simply telling the truth, they now have an agenda to push. Read More

In 2013, former longtime Liberal MP Dr. Carolyn Bennett, in a terse letter to the National Post, said no doctor in Canada can terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks unless the mother's life is at risk or the fetus has serious complications. Read More

It’s six weeks until inauguration day and New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani has already declared war on his city’s Jews. On Thursday evening, barely 24 hours after throngs of agitators violently demonstrated in front of Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, Mamdani’s office released a condemnation that essentially accused the congregation of bringing it upon themselves. Read More

For years, there has been a debate over how prevalent late-term abortions are in this country. Officials have always tried to assure the public that they are exceedingly rare, and generally only happen when there is a valid medical reason. But a recent undercover investigation by a pro-life activist reveals that terminating a medically viable pregnancy is often no harder than buying a pack of cigarettes. The fact that this has gone on with little public debate is appalling, even as it's important to affirm abortion rights. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to see Zohran Mamdani succeed, saying after a highly anticipated sitdown that he’d “feel very comfortable” living in a New York run by the mayor-elect and that he doesn’t anticipate cutting off funding for the country’s most populous city. Read More

A draft deal that might end Russia’s war on Ukraine won some tentative Canadian support on Friday. Read More

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine risks losing its key partner after the U.S. threatened to cut off support unless Kyiv agrees to a peace deal that would force it to cede territory to Russia, cap the size of its military and pledge never to join NATO. Read More

Air Canada is reviewing a complaint from a Toronto Jewish man about a flight attendant wearing a political pin on her uniform. Read More

“Now Ukraine may find itself facing a very difficult choice — either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a somber video address this Friday. Standing in the centre of a rain-soaked Kyiv, he warned Ukrainians that they were amid “one of the most difficult moments in our history,” and that the country would have to decide between an “extremely difficult winter” or a life without freedom, dignity and justice. Read More

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Days after the Toronto Blue Jays fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a heartbreaking Game 7 loss, Dallas Green was processing his disappointment the best way he knew how: by writing new music. Read More

JD Vance has weighed in on Canadian politics, calling out the country for its "immigration insanity." Read More

It’s been nearly four years since Hope Muir took over as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, and as the dance season gets underway it’s clear to see how her vision is setting the stage for the company. Read More

OTTAWA — Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau’s nightmare. 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 Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon. Read More

With the Christmas mailing season upon us, Canadians are once again reckoning with the bleak future of traditional mail, and familiar troubles of Canada’s most troubled Crown corporation. After Canada Post's annual meeting this week revealed it is running an operating loss of something like $5 million a day, the National Post explains where things stand in national mail delivery, and where they might be going. Read More

A network of seemingly legitimate professionals in Canada and abroad are accused of keeping a billion-dollar drug cartel afloat under the violent leadership of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. Read More

Japan’s first female prime minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative, has taken a hawkish stance on China since being elected last month. In one of her first parliamentary speeches, she affirmed, in unusually explicit terms, Japan’s commitment to militarily defending Taiwan from any future Chinese invasion, instigating a diplomatic meltdown from Beijing. Read More