Unpublished Newswire
The B.C. Provincial Health Office is reporting that one of four high-risk individuals who was on the cruise ship M.V. Hondius and self-isolating on Vancouver Island has tested presumptive positive for the Andes hantavirus. The person was transported to hospital for assessment and care on May 14, according to a statement released by the Public Health Agency of Canada released on Saturday. The person’s spouse also has mild symptoms and was taken to hospital. “Both will remain in isolation in hospital,” says the statement. Meanwhile, a third person who was isolating has been transferred...
May 16, 2026 - 17:55 | National Post Staff | National Post
The Toronto Police Service Board has made a request to Ontario’s Inspectorate of Policing to conduct an expedited inspection of recent antisemitism allegations levelled at the Toronto Police Service. Late last month, former homicide detective Hank Idsinga made allegations of antisemitism in the Toronto Police Service in the pages of his recently released memoir. In a public statement released Friday, board chair Shelley Carroll said the board’s request follows consultations with Jewish community stakeholders and members of the board’s Jewish Community Advisory Table. “The Board has...
May 15, 2026 - 15:24 | National Post Staff | National Post
Three “inconsistent and evasive” men pulled over for a traffic stop in New York State were found with a cache of 89 firearms they were attempting to smuggle into Canada, say U.S. authorities. Canadian citizen Malik Bromfield, 22, Pakistani citizen Faizan Ali, 25, and Kamal Salman, 22, a citizen of Canada, the United States, and Jordan were charged after a joint operation involving New York State Police (NYSP), the FBI and theU.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The three men “were caught transporting more than 80 guns, including short-barreled rifles and stolen...
May 9, 2026 - 14:33 | National Post Staff | National Post
The Toronto police service is monitoring the increase in threat level in the U.K. from substantial to severe. The shift in the U.K. comes after a stabbing attack against two Jewish men in a London neighbourhood, previously reported on by National Post. Acknowledging the “fear and anxiety here at home” caused by the London attack, Toronto police stated in an X post late Friday that the threat level in Canada “remains at medium” while noting that the service is “maintaining a heightened presence” in the city. Please see statement below. pic.twitter.com/s6xGXGyvBb— Toronto Police (@...
May 1, 2026 - 11:58 | National Post Staff | National Post
A Toronto foundation has helped return a Renoir artwork allegedly looted by the Nazis to the Musée d’Orsay, after a 90-year journey as dramatic as the painting itself. Le Jugement de Pâris, a circa 1915 sanguine sketch of a classic cultural myth, was loaned to the Parisian museum by Canadian non-profit EJB Steinberg Arts Foundation, which bought the artwork in 2023. “From what I understand, this painting has a complicated history, but one that is all too common for many great European works of art,” said foundation director Elen Steinberg in an email. It is part of a new exhibition...
May 1, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
The Metropolitan police of London, U.K. have released bodycam footage showing the moment when two officers arrested a man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men in north-west London neighbourhood, Golders Green. He was arrested based on suspicion of attempted murder. What does the bodycam footage show? The video shows the two officers confronting the man late Wednesday morning as he walked down the middle of a street carrying a knife. The officers can be heard repeatedly shouting for the suspect to “get down on the ground” and demanding he “drop the knife.” They brought down the...
April 30, 2026 - 15:10 | National Post Staff | National Post
