Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre landed a few pretty solid blows against Liberal leader Mark Carney during the French-language debate in Montreal on Wednesday night. Whether those blows will matter to Quebecers, who will have comprised the vast majority of the audience for the debate, it would be foolish to prognosticate. Read More

As Canadians are set to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Thursday, Pierre Poilievre promised this week that his government would invoke a never-before-used section at the federal level to keep mass murderers in prison until death. Read More

The worst of Canada’s academics are allergic to the thought of locking violent criminals up for any length of time, which is why they began to foam at the mouth when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced his plan to give escalating sentences to repeat offenders in the form of a three-strikes law. Read More

On Monday, during a campaign stop in Montreal, Pierre Poilievre had the audacity to suggest that his government would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court decision that ruled that consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers was "cruel and unusual punishment" and violated the murderer's human dignity. For most reasonable Canadians, this is a no-brainer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, however, rushed to condemn the move as "dangerous," while CBC's Power and Politics host David Cochrane and his panel guest Rob Russo suggested it was a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. But the problem of light murder sentencing does exist, and not just for mass murderers. Read More

Wednesday night's French-language leaders’ debate in Montreal didn’t produce any knockout punches — but if you were scoring on points, Liberal Leader Mark Carney came out on top. And he did it the old-fashioned way: by letting his opponents beat each other up.  Read More

China wants to see a number of steps from President Donald Trump’s administration before it will agree to trade talks, including showing more respect by reining in disparaging remarks by members of his cabinet, according to a person familiar with the Chinese government’s thinking. Read More

OTTAWA — The microphone was cut only once during the French-language debate on Wednesday night, and it was to stop NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh from speaking. Read More

Hamas has rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal that would have required it to disarm, according to a report on Tuesday. Read More

Police have identified the suspect in a hit-and-run that injured four people on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus Tuesday, saying he is still at large and considered dangerous. Read More

On April 15, 1945, the Royal Canadian Dragoons (RCD) liberated the city of Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Read More

The Ontario government's bid to remove three major Toronto bike lanes is "irrational and dangerous," and should be ruled unconstitutional, a lawyer for a group of cyclists argued in court Wednesday. Read More

Second in a series of profiles of the major party leaders. Read More

The leaders of Canada’s major federal parties met Wednesday for the first nationally televised debate of the 2025 election campaign. The French-language debate was a key opportunity to win over francophone voters. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet took to the stage in Montreal in an attempt to win over undecided voters before Canadians cast their ballots on April 28. With polls showing a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives, the NDP and the Bloc were battling to put their parties back on the national agenda. Carney was attacked from all sides but avoided a gaffe. Review the live coverage from National Post reporters Catherine Lévesque, Antoine Trépanier, Christopher Nardi, and Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson in our live blog, below, or watch the full video of the debate. Can’t see the blog? View it on the National Post. Read More

MONTREAL — Striking day-care workers gave local NDP candidates a noisy welcome when they showed up with coffee and doughnuts at a picket line on a chilly Wednesday morning. Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex. Read More

Canadians may never know the extent of mould-related health problems plaguing some who served aboard Royal Canadian Navy frigates as Veterans Affairs is not tracking the problem and legal action that aimed to shed light on the issue has been denied. Read More

In determining what differentiates a good day from a typical one, University of British Columbia psychology research has discovered that we don’t like to work more than six hours a day. Read More

So much for Ontario Premier Doug Ford staying out of the federal election. Ford’s catty condemnation of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign was unhelpful not just to Poilievre, but to Conservatives generally — and even to Ford himself. Read More

If elected, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has now confirmed that he would invoke Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the notwithstanding clause or the Parliamentary supremacy clause, to ensure that multiple murderers remain ineligible for parole. Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war. Read More

MONTREAL — Leaders of the Conservative party, Bloc Québécois and NDP will be trying to steal Francophones' support from the Liberals tonight during the election campaign's only French-language debate. Read More

The Leaders’ Debates Commission clawed back some basic semblance of self-respect on Wednesday morning when it disinvited the Green Party from this evening’s French-language debate and tomorrow’s English-language follow-up. The party has only nominated 232 candidates across the country, or 69 per cent of the total number of ridings, whereas one of the three rules for a party’s inclusion (you need to satisfy two) demands that, “28 days before the date of the general election, the party has endorsed candidates in at least 90 per cent of federal ridings.” Read More

California's governor is trying to drum up more Canadian tourism to his state by distancing himself from U.S. President Donald Trump. And he's doing that literally, reminding Canadians how far from Washington his state is. Read More

OTTAWA — A new Postmedia-Leger poll reveals that support for Quebec sovereignty, which had fallen below 30 per cent due to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to annex Canada, is back. Read More

BERLIN (AP) -- A doctor in Berlin has been charged with murder over the deaths of 15 patients under palliative care, prosecutors said Wednesday. He is also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. Read More

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Several women's groups that supported the appeal celebrated outside court and hailed it as a major victory in their effort to protect spaces designated for women. Read More

OTTAWA — The Leaders' Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders' debates. Read More

OTTAWA — The committee overseeing the federal leaders' debates has disinvited the Green party from the proceedings in a surprise last-minute ruling. Read More

The "Buy Canadian" movement continues to grow as Donald Trump’s trade war escalates. According to a survey of more than 9,700 Canadians conducted by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) in late March, nearly two-thirds are willing to pay five to 10 per cent more for homegrown dairy, meat or produce. 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

OTTAWA — The election is playing out as a story of hopeful Conservative voters versus fearful Liberal voters, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

A large-scale study of CT scans performed in the United States has estimated that the widely used medical technology could lead to more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the lives of patients. Read More