OTTAWA — The federal budget is where a government explains its most ambitious long-term plans, with high-flown rhetoric and huge dollar figures. Read More

OTTAWA — Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont quit the Conservative caucus Tuesday afternoon, setting the stage for a potential floor crossing to the Liberals on the same day the minority Carney government tabled its first budget. Read More

Only three hours into Ottawa’s budget lock-up and I’d already read so much about catalyzing, super-charging, launching, leveraging and empowering that I felt the need of a nap. And I was only 150 pages into the 406-page document. Maybe we should have a rule that the minister of finance has to read the entire budget into the parliamentary record. That would “incentivize” him or her, as they say in Ottawa, to keep it short. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has tabled his first budget since entering politics earlier this year. Canada's 2025 federal budget forecasts a $78.3-billion deficit, the third highest in Canadian history and the highest ever in a non-pandemic year. On Monday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne called it an "investment budget" and a "generational shift." Champagne tabled the budget on Tuesday. Read the full budget document below, and find National Post's full coverage here. Read More

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne unveiled a budget with a chorus of new spending initiatives, but also included – and notably, did not include – several measures geared at tackling affordability. Read More

Since I was last propelled years ago into the purgatory known as “the lockup,” where journalists spend budget day, have either process or contents improved? No. Instead they now insert a false stolen-land “acknowledgement” before even getting to the same old same old labeled bold and new. Which is especially troubling at this supposedly critical juncture. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is setting the stage to end the proposed oil and gas emissions cap and promising to do away with certain rules aimed at penalizing companies accused of "greenwashing." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is billing his first budget as bold, but it won’t come cheap. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government is taking a hatchet to temporary immigration levels, cutting the number of temporary students it will let in next year by half. Read More

British Columbia has pulled a planned anti-tariff advertising campaign. Read More

Canada’s young people are falling behind. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 sits at 14.2 per cent, more than double the national average. The unemployment rate among youth attending school is 17.1 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points from last September. Among those youth who are working, many are under-employed, bouncing between short-term contracts or part-time jobs that barely cover the costs of rent or school. Add to that, AI eliminating entry level jobs and an economy braced for more tariffs, and the employment prospects for young people look increasingly bleak. Read More

Donald Trump says that "any Jewish person" voting for "Jew hater" Zohran Mamdani in New York City's mayoral election is "stupid." Read More

Mystery novelist Mick Herron has a knack for crafting stories that make for good TV. But before he became a household name thanks to the success of Apple’s adaptation of his Slow Horses series, Emma Thompson said she had long been a fan of the Gold Dagger winner’s books. Read More

Even if you live in a city not victimized by the time change, chances are the nights are getting darker and the climes are getting colder. Do you know what you’ll be wearing on your head this winter? We have a few Canadian-made ideas. Read More

OTTAWA — After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled a plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an early election. Read More

Children’s author Robert Munsch has arranged to donate his papers and archives, including a career's worth of fan mail to which he diligently responded, to the Guelph Public Library. Read More

A violent knife-wielding woman was tasered and “inadvertently” run over twice by a Toronto police SUV during her arrest next to a Tim Hortons drive-thru on Saturday. Read More

Prince Harry is coming to Canada this week. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ruled out using the notwithstanding clause to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving child pornography. Read More

The usually loquacious president of the United States was unusually brief when responding to a question last week about his intentions in Venezuela. Read More

When you dine at a restaurant, how do you know if the dish you order is being prepared in a safe manner, that the kitchen is clean, and that staff have appropriate food safety training. Read More

Asian e-commerce giant Shein on Tuesday pledged to "cooperate fully" with French judicial authorities after an uproar over it selling childlike sex dolls, and said it was prepared to disclose the names of people who bought them. Read More

Dick Cheney, whose campaign for a military response to the 9/11 terror attack cleared the path for an unpopular war in Iraq and established his reputation as one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history, has died. He was 84. Read More