Canada’s perfect mixed-doubles curling run to the Olympic Games has come to a halt. 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

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's request to stay in Canada as a refugee has been denied by the Immigration and Refugee Board, his lawyer says. Read More

Does the Canada-U.S.A. rivalry officially extend to the curling rink? Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh. Read More

It's perhaps fitting that a leak sprang in the ceiling of the media centre at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan, just as your correspondent sat down to assemble the piece which follows. Read More

A billionaire former oligarch who renounced his Russian citizenship in the summer of 2023 is seeking $350 million from Canada at an international investment dispute tribunal for freezing his assets after Russia invaded Ukraine. Read More

Danielle Smith of Alberta and Doug Ford of Ontario are leading the pack in a recent Fraser Institute report on the fiscal performance of Canadian premiers. Read More

In the summer of 2015, I travelled from Berlin to Montreal to attend an annual conference on Israel studies. It was my first time in North America, and what struck me immediately was not only the scale of the cities, but the visibility of Jewish communal life. Compared with much of continental Europe, Jewish institutions in Canada appeared confident, established and deeply embedded in the social fabric. Read More

The authors of a study that concludes supervised injection sites in Toronto didn’t cause increases in crime kicked off the new year with a coordinated media blitz to promote their findings. Read More

Before Stephen Harper, Canada’s democracy was very similar to a one-party state. There may have been other parties on the federal election ballot, but it was the Liberals who usually amassed the most votes.  Read More

Canada’s decision to shutter the office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism is unacceptable and ruins the legacy of our nation’s commitment to the Holocaust. With some 70 per cent of all hate crime incidents across the country targeting the Jewish community, we are in a state of crisis. We are a nation that prides itself on promoting human rights, on preserving our rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter, and in doing so, protecting our most vulnerable communities.    Read More

Canada must prepare immediately to protect itself from foreign interference in any upcoming Alberta referendum. While Prime Minister Mark Carney picks fights with Donald Trump, he is leaving our back door wide open to American capital that could bankroll the breakup of our country. Read More

A new survey from Angus Reid paints a bleak picture of the evolving state of health care in Canada. It found that fully half of Canadians have no family doctor or find it difficult to see the one they have. This represents a 25 per cent increase since 2015, when only 40 per cent of respondents reported such difficulties. Read More

MILAN — “Rubio and Vance suck.” Read More

The scandal surrounding disgraced former prince Andrew has thrust the British royal family and its opaque finances into the spotlight, with a parliamentary probe due in the coming months. Read More

City Hall said on Thursday that Phylisa Wisdom was appointed executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism as part of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “commitment to confronting antisemitism and all forms of hate across New York City.” Read More

It wasn’t just a two-win day for Canadian curlers Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Read More

Brayden Point is out. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's independent auto repair shops are calling on Ottawa to pass beefed-up right-to-repair legislation, saying that drivers are getting hosed by the anticompetitive practices of vehicle manufacturers. Read More

The era of Islamophobia and antisemitism czars is over in Ottawa. Henceforth, the federal Liberal government announced Wednesday, a new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion will seize itself with such issues in a broader fashion, outside of the existing “silos.” It’s a defensible move. But it's worth remembering what a disaster the Islamophobia position, in particular, was from the get-go. Read More

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he wants to boost the minimum penalty of $50 for violating the long-awaited and oft-delayed foreign agent registry after hearing repeatedly that it was too low. Read More

The electric vehicle mandate that would have forced 100 per cent of all new cars sold in Canada to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 was a typical Trudeau-era policy. It had more to do with preening self-righteousness than anything else. It sacrificed economic growth for green fantasies and was extremely paternalistic. As with most climate-change policies, the objective seemed to be more about control than actually accomplishing anything. Read More

Politicians often claim that they like “bold” ideas. How about this one? Let Ontario universities take full control of their own finances so they can do the vital job the province’s economic future requires. Read More