On Jan. 19, 2026, the body of B.C. teen Piper James was found on K’gari, an island off the coast of Queensland. It was discovered in the early hours of the morning, surrounded by a pack of dingoes. An autopsy concluded signs of drowning, as well as extensive dingo bites inflicted after death. “Pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death,” the coroner told reporters. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech was greeted with fevered laudations overseas — and provoked a most welcome reaction at home. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke purposefully at Davos this past week about adopting a more nationalistic policy for Canada. Less persuasive was his call for a league of so-called middle powers to combine to influence the superpowers to set up what he called, in the current tedious jargon, ”a rules-based international order.” He is vaguely addressing, without recognizing directly, the fact that the Western Alliance was established in 1949 to contain the Soviet Union which it successfully did until the USSR disintegrated in 1991 without exchanging a shot with any of the NATO countries. Since then there has been a gradual shift from a collective security-based to a national interest-based foreign policy on the part of the NATO countries, as well as the former blocks of so-called neutral states and the regional blocks in Latin America and Africa, none of which easily mobilized their combined influence or enjoyed much relevance to the course of international affairs. The United Nations and many of its agencies are just primal scream therapy for many of the most retrograde and primitive regimes in the world. Israel can be commended for taking the wrecker’s ball to the outlet of one of its agencies in Jerusalem. Read More

Few American politicians of the past decade have been so effective at mastering the power of racial dynamics quite like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Highly fluent in both "intersectionality" and identity-politics, Mamdani cannily tied his platform of equity and affordability with the fate of his city’s “black and brown” masses. Read More

Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand "that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country." Read More

When a Jamaican-Canadian woman was tried for manslaughter — specifically, for leaving her 15-month-old son alone in a full bathtub for 10 minutes, causing him to drown — her judge had to ponder a question now standard in our country’s courtrooms: did systemic racism play a role in the crime? Read More

OTTAWA — The member of Parliament representing Canada's northernmost territory says ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began escalating his desire to control Greenland, constituents have been reaching out, concerned.  Read More

Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the U.S. Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel disruptions and threatens widespread power outages. Read More

The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced with Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama Sinners leading the way with a record-setting 16 nominations. Read More

President Donald Trump has revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests. Late Thursday he said an armada of U.S. Navy vessels is en route to the Middle East. Read More

A Jamaican immigrant denied permanent residency because the Canadian wife who sponsored him was 17 years his senior has won another shot at staying here. Read More

Measles is surging across the U.S. with five new states reporting cases this week, including California, Minnesota and Washington. Read More

This week Mark Carney applied for the job he really wants: leader of a new "rules-based international order" centred around "middle powers." It is pretty much the same job that every Canadian prime minister, chafing at American power, has wanted. John Diefenbaker bristled at U.S. expectations that Canada host nuclear weapons, or support its Latin America strategy, and so hoped the British Commonwealth of Nations could exist as almost a rival to the United Nations. Pierre Trudeau embarrassed Richard Nixon by normalizing relations with China first, and Paul Martin oversaw the creation of the G20. Justin Trudeau, of course, tried to lecture the world about how Canada could lead the way on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Read More

The Danish prime minister is travelling to Greenland on Friday for talks on the island’s future after President Donald Trump seemingly deescalated his threats to take over the Arctic territory. Read More

Every January, gym memberships surge, only to plummet by February as cancellations roll in. We’ve all resolved to shed a few pounds with the New Year, tempted by the latest miracle diet, metabolism hack, or injectable fix. Still, obesity rates and diet burnout continue to climb. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump says a large bruise on his left hand was caused by bumping it on furniture while in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. Read More

Nearly 30 years ago, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon shocked the movie industry when the then-unknown writer-actors sold their script for Good Will Hunting for US$600,000. Read More

Agatha Christie professed a dislike of the cinema, which made for a one-sided relationship. Read More

Much of the country is facing hazardous or severe cold weather warnings going into the weekend, as a "destructive" winter storm from the United States is expected to hit 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

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who became a most-wanted fugitive accused of being the boss of a billion-dollar transnational drug trafficking organization has been captured, according to U.S. officials. Read More

QUEBEC CITY — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on Friday that Canada will continue to stay true to its “values” in helping the people of Gaza. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted, and I want to start by offering some praise of my own. The Prime Minister is right to restate what many have said for years: Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent and work with like-minded countries to advance our interests. Conservatives are, as always, willing to work with him to turn these words into results. Read More

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