Last weekend on NBC’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump kiboshed the notion that he might seek a third term as president. That doesn’t mean he won’t go on CBS’s Face the Nation next weekend and say the opposite, of course, but it’s a reminder that Trump, who’s currently breathing most of the oxygen in Canadian politics, won’t be around forever. And when he’s gone, all the problems that gave credence to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s “Canada is broken” narrative will still be around. Housing. Law and order. The opioid crisis. Foreign interference in our politics. Landlocked natural resources. We are an inefficient and economically dysfunctional federation, to the point where breaking down internal trade barriers is a tall order. Read More

The childhood home of Pope Leo XIV in Dolton, a community just outside the city limits of Chicago, was up for sale last week. Asking price: US$199,000. Though heaven knows that amount might go up now that its former occupant is famous. Read More

TORONTO — Toronto police say they are investigating the death of a female pedestrian who was struck by two vehicles in Scarborough on Thursday night. Read More

On Wednesday, what should have been a timely update from the RCMP on the situation of two children who went missing from their home in Pictou County on May 2 — Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4 — began rather awkwardly. Read More

New data released this week by the Toronto Police Service shows that reported hate crimes in the city rose 19 per cent in 2024 over the previous year. It also found that the Jewish community, while representing less than four per cent of Toronto's population, was the target of 40 per cent of reported incidents. Read More

The ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada has cooled Canadian housing markets significantly. Anxiety over tariff uncertainty and a looming threat of recession have led to notable shifts in market activity and home prices across the country, according to a recently released special report on housing from RBC. Read More

Interim NDP leader Don Davies says his party is in "very early" discussions with the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney about being granted official party status in the House of Commons. Read More

Delta Air Lines Inc. and Korean Air Lines Co. will spend $550 million acquiring a stake in Canadian carrier WestJet, adding to the broader consolidation among airlines globally. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will unveil his first post-election cabinet on Tuesday, according to the Governor General's office. Read More

Wisconsin prosecutors have charged the father of a teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting last year with allowing her access to the semiautomatic pistols she used in the attack. Read More

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks. Read More

A New York man has been charged with animal cruelty after nearly 100 cats — dozens of which were dead — were found in his home last weekend. Read More

Air Canada lowered its financial forecast for the year as travellers shy away from trips to the United States, pushing the country’s largest airline to boost flight capacity outside America and rein in costs amid bigger quarterly losses. Read More

SRINAGAR, India — Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region. Read More

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first North American pope in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history while congratulations poured in from world leaders and statesmen at the start of his papacy. 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

Our cookbook of the week is Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky, an award-winning Australian author and broadcaster. Read More

The folks at a Florida library and the Toronto library are in the midst of a friendly troll-off, as their hometown teams face each other in an NHL playoff rivalry. Read More

On May 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a bombshell 409-page report laying bare the troubling state of paediatric gender medicine. This moment presents yet another opportunity for Canada to reckon with a medical scandal that has long gone unaddressed. Read More

Various Indigenous leaders have complained vocally about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s roundabout way of engaging with the province’s separatist movement by making it easier for organized citizens to arrange for referendums. Read More

In an interview this week with the BBC, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told the British news service that Canada has been "over reliant on the U.S. for too long," adding: "We are the most European of all non-European countries. That's why we want to be closer to Europe." Read More

Prime Minister Minister Mark Carney cannot be trusted with our Charter-protected right to free expression. Read More

OTTAWA — As Canada looks for ways to see U.S. tariffs lifted, the country's ambassador to Canada suggested the recent trade announcement with the United Kingdom could be a "template." Read More

Construction on the first of four small modular reactors at a nuclear station east of Toronto is set to begin this year with the entire project costing $21 billion. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to invest in Canada's foreign service, arguing that diplomacy is becoming increasingly important in a dangerous world. Read More

OTTAWA — Thousands of pro-life demonstrators gathered on Parliament Hill on Thursday to make their voices heard on abortion and MAID — and to take shots at political leaders on both sides of the spectrum. Read More

President Donald Trump pitched his trade framework with the United Kingdom as a historic achievement, and the first step in his revolutionary effort to overhaul the global economy. Read More

In 2013, when Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope he chose the name Francis, a tribute to one of the most popular saints in the history of Christendom. Read More

A staple of Mark Carney’s stump speech during the election was the line that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the kind of politician who has never changed his mind since he was 17. Read More

No matter which of the following categories your mom falls into, we’ve got you covered in the final stretch leading up to Mother’s Day. Read More

The late Pope Francis was canny enough not to let history write his legacy, deciding instead to ensure it continued after his death. Read More

Progress has erupted in Toronto. At the request of city council, municipal staff this week delivered a 27-page report titled “Improved Active Transportation and Water Access to Toronto Island Park,” in which they contemplated heresy: A permanent link between the 240-hectare isle and the city’s mainland, which would involve constructing a bridge or tunnel across roughly 250 metres of water. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is putting a new twist on an old debate over equalization, saying that the federal program should be re-tooled to prioritize the smaller provincial economies like those in Atlantic Canada. Read More

In his first address, the newly elected Robert Francis Prevost, who will now be known as Pope Leo XIV, appeared before a crowd on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. His speech has been translated to English from Italian. Here's what he said.  Read More

OTTAWA — The federal NDP will not be able to rely on hefty campaign reimbursements from Elections Canada to fill its party coffers after its worst-ever election result. Read More

The Ontario government has announced an array of new crime policies that will feature prominently in next week’s provincial budget. Naturally, they are being described by the government as “tough on crime” moves. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says the president has put the issue of Canada becoming a state "behind us." Read More

Amid heightened tensions and stricter travel policies between the U.S. and Canada, a new bill would extend the amount of time Canadians can spend in the United States. Read More