PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gunfire erupted as thousands of protesters in Haiti clashed with police on Wednesday as they denounced a surge in gang violence and demanded that the government keep them safe. Read More

When the first president of the United States,  George Washington, announced the Tariff Act of 1789, imposing a five per cent tariff on all imports, did he botch things as badly as the 47th president did on Wednesday? Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels this week to a gathering of top diplomats from NATO countries and is sure to find allies that are alarmed, angered and confused by the Trump administration's desire to reestablish ties with Russia and its escalating rhetorical attacks on longtime transatlantic partners. Read More

The Competition Bureau pushed back on Google in its ongoing lawsuit over the tech giant's advertising practices in Canada, accusing the company of seeking to mask its alleged anticompetitive conduct. Read More

Although Canada largely appears to have been spared from Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs, at his press conference on Wednesday, the president aired specific complaints about Canadian trade practices and made it abundantly clear that when it comes to trade, America is only looking out for its own interests. Read More

The Tax Court of Canada has issued a set of public warnings in a case involving a "leveraged donation scheme" where prospective donors were lured with promises that their tax breaks would eclipse their contributions, but in reality they ended up ineligible for charitable donation tax credits. Read More

Toronto-born musician Neil Young, who is also an American citizen, says he "may be barred" from entering the United States over comments he made about President Donald Trump. Read More

Senate Republicans faced pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to oppose a Democratic resolution that would nullify the presidential emergency on fentanyl he is using to implement tariffs on Canada. Read More

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Read More

In the early days of the 2025 federal election, predictions of possible outcome scenarios have radically altered from what looked like a Conservative sweep to power when the year began. Read More

OTTAWA — After weeks of anticipation, Canada was spared from additional U.S. tariffs on Wednesday as President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new border levies on imports to the U.S. from dozens of countries on what the president has called "Liberation Day." Read More

TORONTO — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he has not reached out to anyone in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to ensure that he "does not divide Canada's voice." Read More

(April 2, 2025 / JNS) -- The Israel Defense Forces has deployed another division to the Gaza Strip following overnight strikes on the enclave’s south, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stating on Wednesday morning that “Operation Strength and Sword” is being expanded. Read More

America's 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st. Read More

Val Kilmer, the charismatic actor whose baritone voice and range propelled him to stardom in roles such as Batman and Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in the "Top Gun" films, died April 1 at age 65. Read More

The Trump administration said it made an “administrative error” in deporting a suspected MS-13 gang member to an El Salvador prison despite an immigration judge’s order barring his removal to that nation. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter that throughout the 2025 election will be a daily digest of campaign goings-on, 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

Take a walk down Toronto’s Queen Street West between Bathurst Street and Trinity Bellwoods Park and you’ll pass by the Offworld Bar, a space-themed watering hole with intergalactic cocktails and out-of-this-world snacks. But it's about to blast off. Read More

If we look past all the name-calling, scandals and competing tax cuts, this election fundamentally comes down to one question: do Canadians trust the Liberals to do now what they have failed to do over the past decade? Judging by the party's newly released housing plan, the answer should be a resounding "no." Read More

OTTAWA — Two-thirds of Canadians think Liberal leader Mark Carney should proactively reveal his business interests before election day, according to a new poll. Read More

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Maurice Shnaider was shattered when he learned his niece, Shiri Bibas, and her two children Ariel and Kfir, had been torn from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023. After 500 days, their bodies were returned to Israel, Feb. 20. Read More

Democracy need not, as the adage goes, always die in darkness. These days, the surgical light of a courtroom does the trick. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada, as well as the world, is holding its breath as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce new sweeping tariffs Wednesday against "key sectors," a further escalation of a trade war that is upending the global economy. Read More

There is a time-tested reality: every strength, when pushed to excess, becomes a weakness. That is true personally, organizationally and societally. Read More

MONTREAL -- Pressure is starting to mount on Quebec to reconsider its cap-and-trade emissions pricing system after the federal consumer tax ended Tuesday. Read More

WASHINGTON -- With President Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — The Conservatives have dropped a second candidate in less than 24 hours. Read More

With Canada’s six-year national carbon tax experiment coming to an end, the early results are that program has collected about $45 billion while having few immediately perceptible impacts on carbon emissions. Read More

Bartending experience isn’t on any forward-facing curriculum vitae for either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre, but the Liberal and Conservative party leaders found themselves slinging suds on Monday. Read More

Pierre Poilievre put forward a solid pitch to voters during his visit to St. John’s on Tuesday, focusing on the “lost Liberal decade” and the policies that contributed to the “poorest growth in the G7.” Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney dismissed allegations that he may have plagiarized passages in his 1995 doctoral thesis in economics from Oxford University, as first revealed by the National Post last Friday. Read More

Most Canadian psilocybin dispensaries offer online sales while making unsubstantiated health claims and omitting important risks, according to a new study sounding the alarm about the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms. Read More

People have notes for Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative election campaign. So many notes. Read More

It may be April Fool's Day, but this is no joke. At a time when many Canadians are struggling to make ends meet, Canadian MPs have received a pay raise, according to the updated Members’ Allowances and Services Manual. Read More

TORONTO — Rogers' new reported deal with the National Hockey League to retain television rights allowed it to maintain its hold on the Canadian market for another 12 years beginning in 2026. Read More

Flight attendants for Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge are back at the bargaining table after their 10-year collective agreement came to an end on Monday. Read More

There are few announcements more excessively hyped these days, and fundamentally misleading, than the publication of Ontario’s annual “Sunshine List.” The list, published this month, reveals the rafts of provincial civil servants who are making $100,000 a year or more and supposedly living in the lap of luxury. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has invited Quebec counterpart François Legault to form a common front for greater provincial autonomy within Canada, in a letter obtained by the National Post. Read More

“This is a uniquely important election … As the Prime Minister and Team Canada work to stand up to President Trump and protect our economy, I do not want there to be distractions ... That’s why I’m standing aside as our 2025 candidate in our community of Markham—Unionville.” Read More

A judge has issued a stay in the case of a Mississauga, Ont., man police allegedly caught with more than $70,000 in cash, 400 oxycodone pills, digital scales and other drug paraphernalia in his apartment, because completing his trial would have taken more than 29 months. Read More

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4. Read More

The world must be looking a lot like 1993 to the federal NDP. That was the last time New Democrats saw the party reduced from position of influence in Ottawa, to an afterthought sloughed off to a corner of irrelevance, far from the important seats in the House of Commons. Read More

Immigrants and visible minorities have negative views of other groups in Canada at similar, and sometimes higher, rates as the general Canadian population, a new survey has found. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he accepted embattled Toronto candidate Paul Chiang’s resignation Monday night, but would not say if the controversy was a “teachable moment” for him as a novice politician. Read More

As economic uncertainty looms, with the ongoing U.S. tariff threats and geopolitical turmoil, the stakes in this federal election are high for Canada's economic and societal future. To put it plainly, now more than ever is the time for governments to invest in housing. Building homes in the GTA builds our country’s economy, protects Canadian jobs and supports domestic industries from coast to coast.  Read More

A British Columbia driver who blew more than three times over the legal limit after his Mercedes was involved in a two-vehicle crash nearly three years ago will get a lighter sentence because he was recorded on video in a police holding cell using the toilet. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter that throughout the 2025 election will be a daily digest of campaign goings-on, 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

It wasn’t that long ago that elective abortions were harder to get in Canada than anywhere in the U.S. What changed was one of the most actively forgotten political brawls in our history, sparked by one doctor, Henry Morgentaler, a Holocaust survivor who believed legal abortions could prevent future mass atrocities. The ordeal was so divisive, so heated and so unpleasant that an exhausted country gave up on finding a way through it, and instead just decided to never tackle the issue again. Read More

In war, election campaigns, and life we all get tripped up by what the historian Thucydides called the “imponderables” and former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld classified as the “unknown unknowns.” It is how we react to those unforeseeable events that reveal some of our true nature, exposing deep, dark flaws or a courageous, indomitable spirit. Read More

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Last week, the Liberal line of defence of Mark Carney’s high-finance Brookfield background came out through the media: Pierre Poilievre is just as bad. Read More

NEWMARKET, ONT.  — It is Monday morning on the second week of the federal election campaign and for Sandra Cobena, that means it's sign day. Read More

BANGKOK — The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery. Fifty children killed when a preschool classroom crumbled. Seven hundred Muslims struck while praying at mosques for Ramadan. Read More

British Columbia's government is fast-tracking the end of its consumer carbon tax ahead of the lifting of the federal equivalent on Tuesday, with Premier David Eby saying consumers should expect immediate price relief at gas pumps. Read More

SURREY, B.C. -- U.S. authorities have arrested a 67-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., accusing him of smuggling banned goods to Pakistan's military and its nuclear weapons program over more than 15 years. Read More

OTTAWA — All it took was a few references to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and some harsh words from the Parti Québécois leader for the tweak to happen. Read More

OTTAWA — Threats against politicians are becoming so frequent that, for the first time, the federal government is offering private security to election candidates who feel intimated. Read More

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre says he disagrees with calls from some supporters for him to change his election strategy amid a Liberal surge in the polls, arguing that he should not stop talking about the “lost Liberal decade.” Read More

After Mark Carney’s press conference last Thursday, when he said the old relationship with the United States is over, many Liberals might have had the same thought about the race to elect the 45th Canadian Parliament. Read More

Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken victim of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says she was told that she has four days to live after she went into "kidney renal failure." Read More

TORONTO — The Conference Board of Canada says U.S. tariff pressure will likely mean a sizeable hit to jobs and the economy in the quarter ahead. Read More

Fifteen years ago, when Ignacy Trzewiczek created a board game set in a post-apocalyptic world and dubbed it “51st State,” he never imagined he would one day hear a world leader publicly using the term. Read More

OSLO, Norway — A rocket by a private European aerospace company launched from Norway on Sunday and crashed into the sea 30 seconds later. Read More

Mark Carney’s mishandling of the Paul Chiang scandal has got to be one of the worst cases of poor judgment in recent Canadian political history. From the moment the story broke, it was a no-brainer that Chiang could not remain as a Liberal MP and as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville. Read More

PARIS — A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader's presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump is once again talking about serving more than two terms in office. In a phone interview with NBC's Kristen Welker on the weekend, he told her: "A lot of people want me to do it, But we have— my thinking is, we have a long way to go. I'm focussed on the current." Read More

A lobbyist who used to work for Ontario Premier Doug Ford failed to comply with some rules while asking for clients’ land to be removed from the Greenbelt, the province’s integrity commissioner concluded Monday. Read More

Pierre Poilievre keeps saying it: Canada is broken. Read More

After a massive ice storm hit parts of Ontario over the weekend, there are still more than 375,000 homes and businesses without power as of Monday morning. Restoration efforts are underway, but gusts of winds up to 50 kilometres per hour and icy conditions are making it difficult for crews. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promised his government would create an east-west “national energy corridor” to guarantee the approval of pipelines, railways and other resource-moving infrastructure within Canada, if elected. Read More

In the face of extreme and mounting pressure against their proposed anti-democratic Bill 7, David Eby and NDP backed down on Friday. The damage to Eby and the NDP, however, has been done. The attempt to sideline the B.C. Legislature using the Trump tariff threat as cover was as naked a power grab as we have seen in this province and confirms the current NDP and Eby instinct to find ways to exclude not only parliament from the decision making and legislative process, but the public as well. No decision B.C.’s NDP government makes now can be taken at face value and must instead be viewed with suspicion as to its true intention. Read More

Susan Aaron was an active 74-year-old retiree with Alzheimer’s who was told she might experience extreme fatigue and terrible headaches if she tried a new drug from Eisai Co. that promised to slow the progression of her disease. It didn’t sound like a dealbreaker, so she decided to try it. Read More

OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he will not be dropping Paul Chiang from the race in Markham–Unionville, despite the candidate's comments about handing a Conservative candidate over to Chinese authorities to collect a lucrative bounty. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” at Vladimir Putin and threatened “secondary tariffs” on buyers of his country’s oil if the Russian leader refuses a ceasefire with Ukraine. Read More