Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney has unveiled his new slogan, “Spend Less. Invest More.” By which Carney actually means, spend more — spend much more than Trudeau is spending now and probably even more than what Trudeau was intending to spend in the future. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney's new pitch for separate federal operating and capital budgets has some Albertans feeling a tinge of déjà vu, and not the warm and fuzzy sort. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day manhunt is scheduled to be in court Friday for the first time since his December arraignment on state murder and terror charges. Read More

Maybe Donald Trump wants to take over Canada just so his country can finally win a hockey tournament again. And, of course, it was Connor McDavid who said: not yet. Read More

A 71-year-old Canadian man has been charged after allegedly flying a drone and taking aerial photography at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Yearlong Pantry by recipe developer, writer and photographer Erin Alderson. Read More

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night ordered the military to conduct a “massive” counter-terrorism operation in Judea and Samaria, after three buses exploded near Tel Aviv and bombs were found on two others in what is being investigated as a coordinated attack. Read More

This week, John Ivison is joined by academic Thomas Juneau to update predictions he made on the show nearly 18 months ago about the dangers of a second Trump administration. Read More

A group of prominent Canadian historians is regrouping after the Toronto District School Board decided this week to move forward with removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from three of its schools. Read More

The push to buy local is going strong. With the 25-per-cent tariffs on pause until at least March 5, Canadians continue to rethink their purchases, sharing their favourite local brands on social media and developing apps to help identify them. Yet there’s a rub for those who want to support homegrown products and the companies that make them. Buying local isn’t always straightforward, and selling local has its own challenges. Read More

Eventually, voters get sick of politicians. Read More

B.C. lawyer James Heller is suing his own law society for libel, accusing it of “bad faith, high-handedness, arrogance, malice” and betraying its ethical duties. Read More

Carbon offsets are unreliable, fraud-ridden financial tokens that often fail to make any environmental impact at all. And if Mark Carney gets his way, they’re going to be Canada’s next big industry. Read More

BOSTON -- Connor McDavid scored at 8:18 of overtime as Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in a riveting 4 Nations Face-Off final Thursday. Read More

EDMONTON - The hockey game between Canada and the United States was, at a bare minimum, about national pride. Read More

BOSTON -- The Canadian national anthem was booed loudly ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off final against the United States on Thursday night. Read More

The body that Israel redeemed from Hamas, which the terror organization said is Shiri Bibis, belongs to an unidentified person and not the 33-year-old mother of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning. Read More

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Thursday as Washington and Moscow talk about a possible end to Russia's war. Read More

Forget about that crunchy apple he ate in an orchard once: Pierre Poilievre’s hyper-nationalist rebranding, unveiled at last weekend’s Canada First Rally in Ottawa, is pitch perfect. Or so Conservatives should hope.   Read More

OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc is endorsing Mark Carney to replace his childhood friend Justin Trudeau as prime minister and Liberal leader, saying the former Bank of Canada governor “has what it takes to steer a G7 economy through choppy waters.” Read More

KYIV, Ukraine — A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia. Read More

For more than 500 days, the Bibas family has been a symbol of hope and resilience in the face of the horrors of the Israel-Hamas War. At the time of their kidnapping by Hamas terrorists on October 7, Kfir was nearly nine months old, his brother Ariel was four, and their mother Shiri was 32. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberals want Canadians to pay more for their public broadcaster, saying the country's "national security" depends on it. Read More

Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King will resign as premier and leader of the Progressive Conservative party effective Friday at noon. Read More

After U.S. President Donald Trump offered encouraging words to Team USA ahead of tonight’s 4 Nations Face-Off final against Team Canada, Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the game that’s transcended the hockey world into the political spectrum. Read More

The Ontario NDP unveiled a bespoke “plan for Toronto” this week, and it’s not hard to see why. Poll analyst Philippe J. Fournier’s seat model shows the party in serious danger of losing official party status once the votes are counted on Feb. 27. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will be more focused on cheering team Canada than booing the U.S. national anthem when both countries’ hockey teams face off on the ice for the 4 Nations final game on Thursday evening. Read More

Donald Trump said this week that he intends to impose auto tariffs "in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent," with similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports. He said the auto tariffs could come as soon as April 2, one day after his cabinet is set to deliver reports outlining his options. Read More

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is considering buying used Boeing aircraft — perhaps from an overseas seller — to use as Air Force One when he's aboard, as he fumes over the U.S. planemaker's delays in producing two specially modified ones for presidential use. Read More

An emergency room physician at the Timmins and District Hospital in Timmins, Ont., had an "aha" moment while helping a man who was suffering from a massive heart attack. It turned out the doctor had the same condition as the patient. Read More

I am frequently asked what to make of President Trump’s intentions towards Canada and what we are to do about them. On the former, I do not know, and I suspect there is no way of really knowing. On the latter, however, Canada must have a plan. Read More

If you catch Sasha Ivanov at the supermarket these days, chances are he'll be snapping a photo of something on the store's shelves. Read More

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into Manhattan's core. Read More

Montreal police say they've arrested a second suspect in a shooting at a Montreal Jewish school in November 2023. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump won’t attend tonight’s politically-charged 4 Nations Face-Off final between Team USA and Team Canada, but he’s invited “Governor Trudeau” to watch it with him. Read More

On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario: Read More