National Post

The simple arithmetic error that unnecessarily sent countless plastic spatulas into the trash over a toxic chemical scare came to light a few days ago as Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, sat reading a research paper in his office in the Otto Maass Chemistry building on Montreal's Sherbrooke Street. Read More … [Read more...] about How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says women's rights and women's progress is under attack, pointing to the recent defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris as an example. Read More … [Read more...] about Kamala Harris’s presidential defeat was an attack on women’s progress, Trudeau says

TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada, claiming it will eliminate hundreds of jobs and potentially terminate a quarter of a million contracts that it has with Canadian advertising clients. Read More … [Read more...] about TikTok looks to block federal government’s shutdown order with court challenge

SAYDNAYA, Syria — They came from all over Syria, tens of thousands. The first place they rushed to after the fall of their longtime tormentor, former President Bashar Assad, was here: Saydnaya Prison, a place so notorious for its horrors it was long known as "the slaughterhouse." Read More … [Read more...] about ‘Where is everyone?’: Thousands scour Syria’s most horrific prison for signs of their loved ones

Authorities in New York state say the search for a 22-year-old Quebec hiker who went missing in the Adirondacks more than a week ago is now likely a recovery mission. Read More … [Read more...] about Quebec hiker missing in Adirondacks feared dead as weather makes search ‘essentially impossible’