OTTAWA — An internal email shows federal Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty told chiefs that funding for a legal principle ensuring First Nations children have access to government services should be for "emergencies" and that "abuses" had happened under the initiative.  Read More

European leaders take the stage on Tuesday ahead of Donald Trump at the gathering of global elites in Davos, as the U.S. president dangles tariff threats in a bid to pressure the EU over Greenland. Read More

As I sat there, cloaked in candlelight and the dizzying aroma of essential oils, soaking my worries away in a cavern-like space, I began to understand why AIRE Ancient Baths chooses to anchor each new luxury spa in a historic property.  Read More

Steve Bannon is in the ratings business these days, so he can say outrageous things with impunity. Read More

If the Liberal government in Ottawa is proud of its “Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program”— the long-discussed gun buyback program — then it has a very odd way of showing it. Governments often dump news they’re not happy with late on a Friday, the Friday of a long weekend, if it's really bad, in hopes of attaining minimum media coverage. The Liberals went one better this time around and announced the buyback program’s official launch in Montreal on Saturday, and while Prime Minister Mark Carney was occupying most available reporters with his unabashed supplications to China and Qatar. Read More

China doesn’t hold the solution for Canada’s economic issues and isn’t a trustworthy partner, Taiwan’s top representative to Ottawa said following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tariff deal with Xi Jinping. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace has got off to a rough start: questioned by Europe, criticized by Israel and celebrated by friends of the Kremlin. Read More

While a lot of people avoid making New Year resolutions, David Chilton embraces the challenge of change. Read More

President Trump insists America’s strategic security depends on bringing the icy island of Greenland under the American flag.There are a few problems with his plan. First, treaties with Denmark already allow a U.S. military presence in Greenland. Second, acquiring Greenland would burden the U.S. with political and economic obligations to a welfare-dependent basket case of a territory. Third, Greenlanders want to be American even less than they want to be Danish. And then there’s the stress placed by Trump’s latest tantrums on already frayed relationships with our allies.  Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford continued to blast Canada's recent trade agreement with China on Monday, noting that he and Canadian automakers only learned of the deal a few hours before it was announced. Read More

Bloomberg News is reporting that Mark Carney is considering sending Canadian soldiers to Greenland, in the midst of U.S. President Donald Trump's continued pressure to acquire the island for U.S. interests. Read More

Patient medical records are being streamlined into a single digitized record system in Nova Scotia, preventing overlap and delays in what officials say could be a valuable model for other provinces to emulate. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney's new plan to expand Chinese-Canadian ties will jeopardize, not protect, our national sovereignty. However volatile the United States may be these days, pursuing a “comprehensive strategic partnership” with Beijing as a counterbalance is myopic and reckless. Read More

The body of a 19-year-old Canadian woman was discovered on an Australian island reportedly surrounded by a pack of dingoes. Read More

A generational civil liberties victory has been upheld. On Jan. 16, the Federal Court of Appeal held that the Trudeau government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act in 2022 in response to the Freedom Convoy. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter he sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. Read More

Untold numbers of people demanding basic human rights have been killed by a corrupt, bigoted regime, but in the West there are no tent cities on campuses or raucous marches. As Iranian-Canadian human-rights lawyers Payam Akhavan and Kaveh Sharooz tell Brian Lilley, western leaders, and even U.S. President Donald Trump, are proving largely ineffectual at helping the people of Iran. For now, the regime still seems to have the upper hand against a populace mostly abandoned by the international community. And while this is much wider and deeper than previous uprisings in Iran, it could end just as tragically — or worse. (Recorded Jan. 15, 2025.) Read More

US President Donald Trump's government has asked countries to pay $1 billion for a permanent spot on his "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving conflicts, according to US media reports. Read More

Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat and Chinese detainee, weighed in on Canada’s newly announced trade arrangements with China following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meetings with President Xi Jinping this week. 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

Ever since Ozempic hit the market as a weight-loss drug, fat activists of the world appear to have been cycling (not literally, of course) between the five stages of grief. Read More

In 1944, when young Quebec journalist René Lévesque was called to enroll in the Canadian army, he chose instead to serve as a correspondent for the U.S. Office of War Information. “I had no desire to become part of Her Majesty’s forces and be told, in English, "Go here! Go there!”, Lévesque explained. Read More

I tuned into "Heated Rivalry," the new Canadian series that has become an international hit, to see if the sex was as graphic as advertised (it is!). But I stayed for the characters and their story. Read More

BEIJING — In April 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney was standing on the stage of the federal election leaders' debate when he was asked to identify the greatest threat to Canada's national security. Read More