This holiday season will bring a gaggle of Fraggles. The Jim Henson puppets will star in The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, a special now streaming on Apple TV that caps off the second season of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. As the story goes, it’s winter in the creatures’ titular home and they’re stoked for the first snowfall of the season. Read More

Police detained a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine injured, officials said. Read More

At around 6:47 p.m., as the sun began to fade on a warm Sunday afternoon at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, the first gunshots rang out. Read More

The horror of Bondi Beach could just as easily happen in Canada — because the conditions are the same: we have allowed antisemitism to grow unchecked and infect our society.  Read More

More than 1,000 Jewish people congregated on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, a festival of light and miracles. Read More

World leaders offered varied reactions to Sunday’s terrorist attack against Jews in Sydney, ranging from offering general condolences, including by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to accusing the Australian government of allowing antisemitic hatred to fester, as alleged by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. Read More

At least 16 people were killed and 40 were injured in a terrorist shooting that targeted a Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Sunday afternoon, according to Australian authorities. Read More

Canadian political leaders and Jewish organizations were swift to condemn a fatal mass shooting at an Australian Hanukkah beach party Sunday, with many calling for unity against antisemitism in Canada and around the world. Read More

Demetrios Nicolaides is the father of five elementary-age daughters, but the tumult in his life doesn't end there. Read More

Human rights lawyer — and frequent National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky — was injured in today's Australia attack that targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach and left 16 people killed, at last report. Read More

Jew Ride, a car service for the Jewish community is offering an alternative to other ridesharing companies amid reports of antisemitism in Toronto. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office has borne witness to a dramatic and unprecedented escalation in tensions between the U.S. and President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela. Read More

The last piece of land officially contested between the United States and Canada, a rocky outcropping in the Bay of Fundy called Machias Seal Island, has popped up in the news this week, delighting us lovers of bizarre legal abstractions. New Brunswick Senator Jim Quinn, a retired Coast Guard sailor and a former boss of the port of Saint John, is raging and ranting over federal government inaction in the face of a grievous American offence against Canadian sovereignty. Read More

Sometimes policy change is necessitated by reality. The welcome new entente cordiale between Ottawa and Alberta, fast tracking new energy developments, marks a pleasant example. Read More

An Inuvialuit sealskin kayak was transferred to the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) this week after a century in the collections of the Vatican Museums. Fulfilling the decision of the late Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV gave the kayak and some 60 other Indigenous artifacts as a gift to the Catholic bishops of Canada, which in turn presented them in a spirit of reconciliation to Canada’s Indigenous leaders. It was a gracious and touching moment at the CMH as Inuit men from the North laid eyes on the kayak for the first time. Read More

Statistics Canada is seeking feedback from various groups on options for releasing data collected during the last census, but not publicly shared, on transgender and nonbinary children from toddlers and pre-schoolers to young teens. Read More

A piece of legislation making its way through Ottawa this fall and set to come into effect in January, if not earlier, will restore and grant Canadian citizenship to thousands of people around the world who were previously shut out by an earlier rule. Read More

A nation’s highest purpose is not improving takeout menus, but you might be fooled by listening to the talk in the English-speaking world.   Read More

Re: Judges suing Ottawa for fatter salaries are shameless — John Ivison, Dec. 8 Read More

HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city 's once-diverse political landscape. Read More

This year, the holidays are decked out in red, green, and Ralph Lauren. A trend embracing the classic American brand’s aesthetic is taking over social media, fuelling shopping sprees and inspiring think pieces in publications from People magazine to the New York Times. Read More

If you’re a media critic, it’s easy to dismiss an actor who likes to talk in a man-baby voice. Who likes a good groin injury joke, who delivers news commentary as an opera aria. But if you’re an Adam Sandler fan, that kind of stuff can make him a hero for an entire generation. Read More

Two American troops and a civilian interpreter were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged member of the Islamic State group opened fire on a joint U.S.-Syrian patrol, officials said. Read More

European officials are growing concerned that an emerging U.S.-brokered peace deal in Ukraine could be exploited by Russia, paving the way for a re-invasion of territory in the war-battered nation’s eastern Donbas region. Read More