VANCOUVER — Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, who is now running for Mark Carney's Liberals, dismissed the size of the crowds that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attracting and compared them to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests. Read More

The morning after one of the biggest political rallies in recent Canadian history, Pierre Poilievre was still buzzing. Read More

Despite what you may have heard, these are not happy times for separatists — not separatists from Quebec, and not separatists from Alberta. "National unity," on the other hand, is a much more fraught question. Read More

Former prime minister Stephen Harper endorsed Pierre Poilievre at a rally in Edmonton, Atla., on April 7. Here are the English portions of his speech: Read More

EDMONTON — Alberta is fundamentally changing how it funds hospital surgeries, but critics say the change won't improve the public system and will only accelerate more care in the privatized system. Read More

Last week, an Edmonton man was given a four-year prison term (with only six months left) for beating another man to death in a jealous rage. The Liberal-appointed judge gave him such a lowball sentence because the offender was Indigenous, had a rough personal history, and because “a restrained view of sentencing in this case serves the goal of rehabilitation in Canadian society.” Read More

LONDON — Prince Harry was treated unfairly when he was stripped of his British security detail, his attorney told appeals court judges Tuesday. Read More

Perhaps in hopes of kindling some support in Quebec, the NDP announced former parliamentarian Ruth Ellen Brosseau — dubbed “Vegas Girl” when first elected as a 27-year-old in 2011 — as its candidate for the riding of Berthier—Maskinongé. Read More

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed she suffered from a condition called postpartum preeclampsia following the birth of one of her children. Read More

At least 27 people died and 160 others were injured in the Dominican capital early Tuesday when the roof collapsed at an iconic nightclub where politicians, athletes and others were attending a merengue concert, authorities said. Read More

On March 14, on his first day in office, Prime Minister Mark Carney ended the consumer carbon tax and, with it, the Canada Carbon Rebate payment. Read More

Greg Millen, a longtime NHL goaltender and hockey analyst, died on Monday. He was 67. Read More

Starting on April 10, Brazil will require Canadian tourists to apply for a visa to be in the country for up to 90 days. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives are promising to move resources from the Canada Revenue Agency’s small business audits to further target big businesses, which they will “name and shame” when caught “dodging taxes.” 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

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. Read More

The U.S. is poised to more than double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 34.45%, putting more pressure on U.S. materials costs even before President Donald Trump places any new tariffs on the sector. Read More

Watching Liberal friendly commentators try to explain away the whole issue of Mark Carney’s father and his status as a teacher of Indigenous kids in the North is a lot like watching the new Captain America movie. Read More

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I find myself wondering if April 7 will be remembered clearly as one of the major defining moments in the Trump trade crisis of 2025, or if it will be a mere curiosity amid an intense period of political chaos to rival August 1914. As you’ve probably already heard, because we are all self-consciously part of the investor class now, the global stock market surged early in the morning because some people misunderstood a Fox News chyron, broadcast while one of President Donald Trump’s major courtiers was giving an interview, and social media was briefly flooded with fictitious hopes that the president might pause his pervasive, arbitrary program of new economic tariffs. Read More

QUEBEC CITY – As the Liberals widen their gap in Quebec, eyes are focused on the "Old Capital," a longtime, mysterious Conservative stronghold. But the ground may be shifting, and one political icon is now hinting that a red wave could sweep over the city. Read More

TORONTO — Seated in a restaurant around the corner from Toronto's bustling Yonge Street on a drizzling afternoon, Leslie Church says her campaign couldn't feel more different than the one she lost nine months earlier. Read More

May I concoct a yummy column idea: Food. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap China with an additional 50 per cent import tax, while Washington and Wall Street remained engulfed in confusion about how to gain exceptions from his sweeping global tariffs. Read More

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. Read More

EDMONTON -- Alberta's government is taking another step toward giving municipalities the option of ditching the RCMP in favour of a new provincial police service. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, while warning the Iranians they would be in “great danger” if the talks don’t succeed in persuading them to abandon their nuclear weapons program. For its part, Tehran confirmed talks would happen but insisted they would be indirect discussions through a mediator. Read More

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper will introduce Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at a rally in Edmonton on Monday evening. Read More

Liberal Leader Mark Carney heads into Alberta this week and is more likely to be the proverbial prophet without honour in his own province than the prodigal son returning home to a warm welcome. Read More

There is a stark divide playing out in the current federal election. It may not be dominating the headlines right now, but it’s definitely there — bubbling below the surface with the potential to erupt at any moment. Read More

It was a departure in two ways. Read More

Meredith Gaudreau, the wife of the late hockey star Johnny Gaudreau, has given birth to their third child. Read More

Sarah A. Boardman, the British artist whose 2019 portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump recently caused a furore when its subject called it "truly the worst," says she “completed the portrait accurately, without ‘purposeful distortion,’ political bias, or any attempt to caricature the subject, actual or implied." Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s electoral interference watchdog says the Chinese government is behind recent campaigns on China’s largest social media network to influence opinion of Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Read More

Ottawa police have released the name of the person they say was behind a massive security incident on Parliament Hill over the weekend. Read More

In 2017, Parliament passed Bill C-16, which resulted in trans-identifying inmates with intact male genitalia being allowed to transfer into federal women’s prisons. Canadian women in federal prisons have effectively ceased to be protected, now that the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code recognize “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination. Read More