In a Nova Scotia first, a judge has sentenced a Mi'kmaw man to three months of house arrest for running a roadside cannabis dispensary that operated among many other pot peddling outfits in a First Nations community. Read More

Mark Carney came out swinging after Donald Trump announced his plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on auto imports. “The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over,” the prime minister declared on Parliament Hill. Read More

Recent election campaigns have featured the summary dismissal of nominated candidates, usually because some untoward social media post or previously unknown interview from the past surfaced. Or was surfaced by rivals. Read More

Two weeks after a panel for the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) ruled that I was guilty of unprofessional conduct, for sharing my views on sex and gender ideology, Vancouver Coastal Health authority (VCH) fired me from my job as a registered nurse of 13 years. I was given zero severance pay. Read More

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OTTAWA — Part of downtown Ottawa was locked down Saturday after a man barricaded himself in Parliament Hill's East Block, sparking a major police intervention that lasted for hours. Read More

Canada has updated its advice to those travelling to the United States, warning they may face “scrutiny” from border guards and the possibility of detention if denied entry. Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurtling past Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the “big, beautiful bill” that’s central to his agenda. Read More

Cutting government red tape, boosting a federal apprenticeship grant and getting a family doctor for all Canadians were the key promises from federal party leaders on Saturday. Read More

As we all struggle to estimate the fallout from President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” blanket tariffs, a couple of relevant readings. Monash University economist Zac Gross is a lucky Australian who has the unique privilege of calling his Substack newsletter “Gross National Product.” On Wednesday, Gross made the point often heard from economists, and never from politicians, in countries faced with surging United States economic nationalism: a pure “tit-for-tat” strategy of counter-tariffs does nothing but add to the anti-growth effects of the original injury to trade. It’s smarter to look for pure wins that lower other trade barriers rather than raise new ones — and one obviously available for countries like Canada and Australia is to defect from U.S. intellectual-property maximalism. Read More

DETROIT — Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and international border — one that’s on the brink of being ripped apart. Read More

VANCOUVER — Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband’s voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China’s Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. Read More

Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. Read More

OSHAWA, ONT. — Doors are scheduled to open to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at 6 p.m., but Brett Saltzman arrives at 9:30 a.m.  Read More

In 2014, the German city of Dusseldorf announced that in four years it would open an exhibit dedicated to Max Stern, a local Jewish art dealer who fled the Nazis in 1937, having first been forced to sell off his gallery’s holdings. He settled in Montreal and became a post-war advocate of restitution of art stolen from German Jews. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are ahead of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by a cumulative average of 5 to 6 points. Contrary to popular (Liberal) belief, this doesn’t mean the federal election is over. There’s plenty of political runway left, and more than enough time for Poilievre to make up ground. Read More

Reasonable Canadians should be able to agree, I think and hope, that Mark Carney needn’t answer for anything his father Robert Carney did or said as principal of a federal Indigenous day school in the Northwest Territories — or for any of the things he said in that capacity, or later on as an academic at the University of Alberta. Read More

People who choose to live in Ottawa tend to dislike Preston Manning. The city’s disdain for him is on the same scale as Western Canada’s anger at the memory of Pierre Trudeau. Read More

As was widely predicted, including in this column, U.S. President Donald Trump's initial brinkmanship remarks about Canada and tariffs were his usual shock and awe technique for commencing negotiations. At his "Liberation Day" ceremony on the White House lawn on Wednesday, almost no new tariffs were proposed for Canada and his only direct references to Canada were about our exorbitant and antediluvian supply management measures that cushion the incomes of a large number of Canada's farmers with artificially inflated prices. This has been a particular bugbear of People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier and a ludicrous anomaly that we should not have needed the president of the United States to highlight for us. The best way to deal with farm income insufficiencies is direct income supplements to the farmers, not forcing the entire population to overpay for what they put on their breakfast table. Read More

Israel is in “serious talks with several countries” to relocate large numbers of people out of the Gaza Strip, a senior diplomatic source told JNS and other media outlets during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary. Read More

LONDON -- Prince Andrew's damaged reputation and desperate need for cash are again causing headaches for King Charles III after a court released more documents on Friday showing how Andrew's problems led him to become entangled with a suspected Chinese spy. Read More

GREENBELT, Md. -- A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, while a U.S. government attorney was at a loss to explain what happened. Read More

President Donald Trump had nearly clinched an agreement with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. that would spare the popular app from a U.S. ban, but the deal was scuttled after China withheld its approval following this week’s tariff announcement, according to a person familiar with the matter. Read More

SASKATOON -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he remains concerned with U.S. tariffs on Canadian products but thinks talking with American officials helped Canada avoid a worse outcome. Read More

An Ontario man is facing charges in an alleged theft and leak of Texas Republican Party data in 2021. Read More

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean "Diddy" Combs ' indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year. Read More

OTTAWA — When it comes to CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding under a Carney-led government, the public broadcaster can expect the best of both worlds. Read More

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BANGKOK -- China announced Friday that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" slate of double-digit tariffs. Read More

The 2025 Canadian federal election campaign is in full swing. During such times, extra attention is paid to candidates and party leaders, which can sometimes include digging up stories about their pasts, which is fair game. But on Thursday, CBC went further than most, resurrecting the ghost of Robert Carney to stand trial for using outdated language in a 1965 interview and his nuanced defense of the residential school system. Read More

A new lawsuit claims that the Trump administration's travel policy requiring foreign nationals to register to stay in the U.S. for 30 days or more didn't consider the impact it could have on communities that rely on revenue from Canadian snowbirds. Read More

Experts say U.S. tariffs on Canadian auto imports will drive prices higher for both new and used cars. Read More

Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision "makes all of us less safe." Read More

John Philpott's phones and emails are buzzing with American doctors looking to get "the hell out of the United States." Read More

OTTAWA — French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of what they can expect in about two weeks, when all political leaders will face off in their first debate on April 16. Read More

British police on Friday charged Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Kin by Marie Mitchell, a London-based chef, writer and co-founder of Island Social Club. 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