MONTREAL — A Montreal-area Liberal candidate invited to a campaign event this week the head of two organizations suspected by the RCMP of operating a secret Chinese police station. Read More

NIAGARA FALLS, ONT. — Standing against a background of the famous falls, Mark Carney was asked about his debate experience this week and turned to Charles Dickens’ famous opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. Read More

About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Read More

Project Fear almost worked for Mark Carney in Britain and now he is trying the same tactic here. Read More

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Read More

One person died this morning after a fiery crash in Toronto's east end. Read More

Wednesday evening’s French-language leaders' debate kicked off with a video montage that mentioned President Donald Trump roughly 175 times. (I exaggerate somewhat.) Thursday evening’s English-language leaders’ debate was much less focused specifically on Trump, to an almost bizarre extent. When moderator Steve Paikin offered each leader a chance to ask a question of an opponent, Liberal Leader Mark Carney chose to ask Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about the security-clearance drama. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Danube: Recipes and Stories from Eastern Europe by Irina Georgescu, a Wales-based, Romanian-born food writer. Read More

Sex and garlic and the blues. That’s Sinners in a nutshell. It’s also about the only thing in this big-budget production from writer/director Ryan Coogler that would fit in one. This movie is loud and proud, big and brash. Read More

Concern over Iran’s nuclear program goes back almost to the turn of the century. In many ways, it’s the issue that never goes away and never gets resolved. Read More

Shortly after 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, before the English Leaders Debate in Montreal ended, word began to spread on X that the media scrum that was to immediately follow the debate was cancelled. The reason given to reporters by the Leaders' Debate Commission's Executive Director Michel Cormier: "We don't feel that we can actually guarantee a proper environment for this activity." This did not please members of the press. One could be heard shouting out: "Why? This is an infringement of the liberty of the press. This is your one job!" Read More

Anthony Housefather is a Montreal Liberal MP of unusually courageous and actually-liberal character. A couple of days ago he issued an electioneering tweet about the Conservative proposal to invoke the Charter of Rights’ notwithstanding clause in order to legislate unconditional life sentences for multiple murderers: Read More

There is no doubt as to who won Thursday night’s English-language debate. That achievement went to Pierre Poilievre, who, while delivering a coherent message about his own hopeful vision for a future, more prosperous Canada, ran circles around a sluggish Mark Carney and deflected the volley of Jagmeet Singh’s pea-gravel-sized interruptions. Read More

U.S. airstrikes targeting the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed 38 people and wounded at least 50 others, the group said. Read More

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing you did mattered? Read More

OTTAWA — In a surprise move, the Leaders’ Debates Commission abruptly cancelled the media availabilities that were set to happen with each leader after the English-language debate. Read More

After the smell of smoke was detected, an Air Canada flight from Las Vegas to Toronto was diverted to Des Moines International Airport on Thursday. Read More

In the wake of Wednesday’s French leaders’ debate, press accounts have covered most of the main beats, such as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asking Liberal Leader Mark Carney if he was “embarrassed” to request a fourth term, and Carney defending the Liberal record by saying, “I just got here.” Read More

“I don’t even know these women,” Frank Stronach told a small entourage of supporters this week after facing complainants accusing him of sex crimes for the first time in court. Speaking during a break in a preliminary hearing that examined two of the most serious charges he faces, the 92-year-old billionaire stopped talking after being told journalists were within earshot. Read More

The leaders of Canada’s major federal parties faced off Thursday night in the second, and final, nationally televised debate of the election campaign. The English-language debate took place just 24 hours after the leaders battled each other in the French-language debate. The National Post has video of the debate, below. Review our live coverage from National Post reporters Catherine Lévesque, Christopher Nardi, and Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson in our live blog, below. Can’t see the blog? View it on the National Post. Read More

A gunman opened fire Thursday at Florida State University, killing two people and wounded at least five others, police said. The 20-year-old gunman was the son of a sheriff’s deputy whose former service weapon was used in the shooting, authorities said. Read More

MONTREAL — Liberal Leader Marc Carney took shots from the left, right and the Bloc Québécois during an often heated, sometimes droll English-language debate Thursday. Read More

Unable to partake in the federal leaders’ debates this week, Maxime Bernier found a different medium to attack his opponents and push the People's Party of Canada’s platform: The Tucker Carlson Show. Read More

KINGSTON — Kingston police say a person who allegedly threatened staff at a local hotel is now facing multiple charges after a whole rotisserie chicken stuffed with illicit drugs was found in their belongings. Read More

TORONTO -- Hudson's Bay will seek court approval to put the royal charter that launched the company 355 years ago on the auction block, along with its trove of art and historical artifacts. Read More

Canadian universities are receiving increased interest from prospective American students in the midst of federal cuts to U.S. institutions and revocations of foreign student visas. Read More

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, as cardinals were designated to take his place presiding over the most important liturgical services leading up to Easter. Read More

Since Mark Carney became Prime Minister on March 9, the Liberals have been leading in most opinion polls. The reason for this significant shift was fear, anger and revulsion about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. This, in turn, was combined with an unfounded belief that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was Trump’s Canadian equivalent, in spite of the fact the two leaders have vastly different political and ideological beliefs. Read More

An ocean-covered world bristling with life is the best fit for observations made of a planet 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, a new paper says. Read More

Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company’s business. Read More

An Ontario judge has more than doubled the "unhinged" recommended sentence for a man whose string of crimes includes trying to disarm a police officer. Read More

In 2019, Danielle Smith was a Calgary broadcaster with a talent for reflecting Albertans' anger back at her audience. Read More

OTTAWA — Strawberries became an unexpected topic at Wednesday night's French debate in Montreal, with three of the four party leaders saying they've stopped buying American berries amidst trade tensions. Read More

In a rare, casual interview, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre talks to Brian Lilley in this special bonus episode about what it’s been like campaigning for an election with his wife and kids, what he thinks about people saying he’s too “angry” and what he does to stay in shape during the race. He also discusses what he makes of provincial Conservatives in Ontario publicly criticizing his campaign, and fear tactics being used against him to scare seniors about their benefits. Of course, Poilievre also gets into his plan for handling U.S. President Donald Trump, the problem of younger Canadians losing hope in the future of their country and his plans to improve housing and the cost of living. (Recorded April 12, 2025.) Read More

OTTAWA — What is going on with the polls this federal election campaign? 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

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