Unpublished Newswire
This is an excerpt from a new book of essays, October 7: The War Over Words and Deeds, edited by Donna Robinson Divine and Asaf Romirowsky. Cole Bunzel is a historian and scholar and fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
If the horrific events of October 7, 2023, ought to have made anything clear, it is that Hamas never ceased to bear violent, annihilationist intentions toward Israel, contrary to what many over the years had claimed or suggested.
On that morning, approximately 4,000 Hamas militants, together with some 2,000 other Gazans, broke through the Gaza-...
October 7, 2025 - 07:31 | Special to National Post | National Post
Norman Spector was chief of staff to then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada’s envoy to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the mid-90s, and later publisher of the Jerusalem Post. From his prominent perch on the X social media platform, he is now a commentator and media critic. He spoke to Rob Roberts, editor-in-chief of National Post, via text on the eve of the second anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel:
Q; Norman, I’ve just left an October 7 commemoration at a Halifax synagogue and I’m not sure I can adequately summarize what I heard, but it is at least in part...
October 7, 2025 - 07:23 | Rob Roberts, Editor-in-Chief | National Post
Three scientists whose work demonstrates the surprising range of quantum effects in electronic circuits have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.On Tuesday, members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that John Clarke of the University of California, Berkeley, John Martinis at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Michel H. Devoret also at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Yale University, will share this year’s physics Nobel.
October 7, 2025 - 06:45 | Ivan Semeniuk | The Globe and Mail
On May 12, Doris Bill stood before a small crowd to launch her campaign for the Yukon Liberal Party leadership. A former CBC journalist, three-term Kwanlin Dün First Nation chief, and residential school survivor, she made her bid at a time when Yukoners were disillusioned with the party. The Liberals, in power since 2016, have seen two premiers quit for personal reasons since the last election; the latest, Ranj Pillai, left a vacancy Bill was now vying to fill. “With me stepping in the race, people are telling me it’s rejuvenating the party,” Bill told the CBC. If successful, she would...
October 7, 2025 - 06:30 | Rhiannon Russell | Walrus
In September, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government unveiled an initial list of “major projects” to be reviewed and, possibly, fast-tracked. This flagship commitment from last spring’s federal campaign was designed both to stimulate the Canadian economy and to respond to tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump on Canadian exports.
A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute gauged how Canadians saw this list. Obviously, few voters will have had the chance to study these proposals so early in the process, so the exercise serves as a first impression of Carney’s election...
October 7, 2025 - 06:29 | Philippe J. Fournier | Walrus
Good morning. Israel and Hamas are back at the negotiating table, hashing out the thorniest issues in the U.S. peace plan – more on that below, along with another high-profile resignation in France and the Blue Jays’ quest for a series sweep. But first:Today’s headlinesAhead of talks with Carney, Trump says his tariffs are workingAlberta’s teachers’ strike begins, affecting around 700,000 studentsOntario to offer early access to some new cancer drugs in pilot project
October 7, 2025 - 06:10 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
