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A powerful explosion rocked the faade of a synagogue in Lige, Belgium, early on Monday morning, resulting in no injuries. Read More

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Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republics power grid. Read More

The issue of shots being fired at three Toronto-area synagogues in less than a week is no longer just a Jewish one. Its fast becoming a Canadian issue and the impetus to do something about it has never been more immediately vital. Read More

Iraq, which had recently regained some stability after decades of conflict, was immediately dragged into the Middle East war triggered when the United States and Israel attacked Iran last weekend. Read More

A homemade incendiary thrown near anti-Islam protesters outside the New York mayor's residence was a viable improvised explosive device "that could have caused serious injury or death," police said Sunday. Read More

It happened. Shots were fired Friday night at my synagogue, Shaarei Shomayim. To be honest, I have been expecting this. It is not as if this area, like every other Jewish neighbourhood, has not had an increased police presence for over two years. Indeed, I wonder if the increased presence of security personnel may have made this neighbourhood seem like more of a target. Read More

On Jan. 7, Heather McPherson, the longtime member of Parliament for Edmonton-Strathcona and current leadership candidate for the federal New Democratic Party, sponsored an openly antisemitic petition that seeks to investigate and charge any Canadians who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Read More

Eye-popping colours, carefree swirls and fluid fabrics Pucci prints defined the summer of 2025, endorsed by It girls such as Hailey Bieber and Amelia Gray Hamlin. Online searches for Pucci fashions were at an all-time high, according to Google Trends, and social media was awash in the psychedelic pattern. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced three byelections for ridings in Ontario and Quebec, which could result in the governing Liberals securing a razor-thin majority in the House of Commons. Read More

Huge fireballs and clouds of thick smoke erupted over Tehran on Sunday after U.S.-Israeli air strikes hit fuel depots in the city, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to fight on for months to come. Read More

Canadian diplomacy just did an about-face with India. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

Whatever else happens when the dust settlesonthewar against Iran,onecertain casualtywill bethePalestinians delusion thatIransterrorist ring of firewouldvanquish the Zionist entity,home to half the worlds Jews. Read More

The biggest long-range danger looming over the remaining liberal democracies does not come from U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin or the nutty mullahs in Iran now being pummelled. Instead, it comes from the seemingly inexorable force of technology that increasingly threatens not just to aid humanity, but replace it. Read More

Re: Donald Trump's war on Iran is righteously just Adam Zivo, March 2; and Mark Carney's unprincipled stand(s) on Iran Michael Higgins, March 5 Read More

Saudi Arabia has stepped up direct engagement with Iran to try and contain a war in the Middle East that is causing havoc and stressing global markets, according to several European officials. Read More

The police officers were taunted and beaten. Some were knocked unconscious and dragged down stone steps, tear gas stinging their throats, to chants of U.S.A! U.S.A! on Jan. 6, 2021, as hundreds, then thousands, swarmed the citadel of American democracy. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

On March 2, British Columbia enacted a wildly popular new policy that, according to decades of accumulated research, will increase productivity, improve mental health, reduce hospitalizations, streamline daily life and even save lives. Read More

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Argentinas President Javier Milei, whose early, attention-grabbing economic victories have cooled, has successfully pushed through a package of transformational labour reforms in a bid to modernize Argentinas ailing economy. Read More

First it was Temple Emanu-El. Then overnight Saturday gunfire struck BAYT (Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto)and Shaarei Shomayim. Read More

While Prime Minister Mark Carney initially came out in strong support of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran, he seemed to change his tune only three days later, saying that he supported the military action with regret. Read More

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An Ontario man with a history of drug abuse who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his motherby striking her "numerous times on the head, back, neck, and arms with several weapons, including a large bladed knife, a smaller paring knife, a claw hammer and a large pry bar," has seen his cannabis prohibition removed as a test to see how he handles it. Read More

Last month, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal handed down an extraordinary decision, ordering former Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for publicly criticizing gender-identity ideology and its inclusion in schools. The ruling highlights the conflict between the demands of modern trans activism and the fundamental rights enshrined in Canadas Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This must serve as a wake-up call for all Canadians. Read More

Its a far cry from the White House decision to post an image of a bald eagle trampling a Canada goose after the U.S. won Olympic gold at the recent mens hockey final in Turin, Italy. Read More

The B.C. RCMP has begun a homicide investigation following the disappearance of an Iranian activist who has been a vocal critic of Iran's ruling regime. Read More