Ethan Elharrar remembers having a single month of normal college life at Toronto Metropolitan University. He was anxious about leaving Montreal for Toronto, living on his own for the first time in a new city, beginning a new program. He was nervous but excited. Read More

OTTAWA - Quebec's "top diplomat" in the nation's capital retired last week as a new prime minister was elected, a new delegation of Quebec Liberal MPs is about to arrive in town, and when the province wants to play a bigger role in Canada-U.S. relations. Read More

Food prices remain top of mind for many, according to the second issue of the bi-annual Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL). Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney will soon find out what kind of reception he will receive from U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his administration, as the two leaders are set to sit down today for their first face-to-face meeting. Read More

CHESTER, N.Y. -- A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to hear on Tuesday from caucus members’ discontent over mistakes made over the course of the campaign, with fingers pointing to campaign manager Jenni Byrne. Read More

OTTAWA -- A failed Liberal candidate in Windsor who lost to his Conservative rival by just 77 votes in last week's federal election says he is filing for a judicial recount. Read More

It may be the 11th edition, but the 2025 Canada's 100 Best Restaurants List is coming out in unprecedented times. From a barn overlooking an orchard in Ontario’s wine country to an exclusive eight-seat dining experience in Calgary, the annual ranking is a snapshot of a homegrown culinary scene worth celebrating at a time when more than ever want to show their support. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threw down the gauntlet to newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney in a livestreamed address Monday, calling on him to negotiate a new deal between Ottawa and Alberta guaranteeing more pipelines and changes to equalization. Read More

A Toronto woman who used her young son to help smuggle 3.5 kilograms of cocaine from Aruba into Canada has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by an Ontario judge who is urging "some form of early release" so she can take care of her two children. Read More

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too costly to house America's worst criminals. Read More

The Liberals swept downtown Toronto in last week's federal election, giving Prime Minister Mark Carney some potential fresh faces from Canada's biggest city with which to craft a new-look cabinet. Read More

WASHINGTON— Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Washington on Monday ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to talk trade and security, as the president shows no sign of letting up on comments about coveting Canada as a state.  Read More

The latest salvo in U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war is a threat to slap 100 per cent tariffs on foreign films. Read More

B.C. MP Don Davies will be the interim leader for the New Democratic Party of Canada, chosen by the party's national council Monday evening. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who've returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda. Read More

The election dust has settled, leaving the Liberals with a minority government. This has led to calls — from both conservatives and progressives — for Pierre Poilievre to step down as Conservative party leader. But these calls are premature, overlook the success of several of Poilievre's policies — many of which were co-opted by the Liberals in order to win — and severely underestimate the Liberals' incumbent advantage in the face of an unforeseeable natural disaster that plagued an otherwise normal Canadian election campaign —  U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford is seeking Prime Minister Mark Carney's support for his idea to build a tunnel under Highway 401. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years. Read More

Tim Hortons is baking some star power into its breakfast menu. Read More

NEW YORK — The federal sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose wildly successful career has been dotted by allegations of violence, began on Monday in New York City with jury selection that was briefly paused when the hip-hop entrepreneur said he was “a little nervous” and needed a bathroom break. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday echoed former U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists are directed by Iran, vowing a forceful response to the latest strike near Israel’s main international airport. Read More

King Charles III will be giving the Speech from the Throne to open Canada’s 45th Parliament. Prime Minister Mark Carney should be applauded for inviting the King to do so. Read More

If more provinces stood up for themselves when the feds started encroaching, we’d be a lot better off as a country. That in mind, it was good to see Alberta announce on Thursday that it would be challenging the federal Clean Electricity Regulations, which became law in December. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be watched closely by Canadians infuriated by Donald Trump — and by an anxious business community looking for tariff relief — when he meets with the U.S. president Tuesday in Washington. Read More

Alberta's New Democratic Party has voted overwhelmingly to cut traditional membership ties with its federal counterpart. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has many foreign policy issues on his plate — and they're not all about U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly accused the Liberal government of entrenching Canada's economic dependence on the United States. Read More

In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump still wants to make Canada the 51st state, promising Sunday to address it with Mark Carney when they meet in Washington this week, but he said making it happen by military force is “highly unlikely.” Read More

Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual. Read More

Houthi missile hits Ben-Gurion Airport, wounding six, disrupting flights Read More

“American ranchers and farmers are definitely a large part of the base that elected President Trump,” says Alberta's minister of agriculture and irrigation, RJ Sigurdson. Read More

I recently noted that even struggling New Mexico, the only U.S. state to end the last four decades less economically free than it began, is still more prosperous than most Canadian provinces. That’s largely a result of Canada losing ground in terms of wealth relative to its southern neighbor after decades of hand-in-hand growth. But Canada’s provinces outstrip almost all states in at least one area. Read More

During the federal election campaign I wrote that the “politics of humiliation” had become toxic to Canadians in the Trumpian era. Election night then delivered some humbling, and a call for humility — both of which are different from humiliation. Read More

On Wednesday, in the prelude to a cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump made yet another remark to chill the blood for those concerned about his country. Trump’s cat-and-mouse game of arbitrary changes to American import tariffs is starting to raise concerns about prices and supply chains for consumer goods. The American economy has unexpectedly shrunk in the first 100 days of Trump 2.0, even though workers and businesses are scrambling to make purchases before the effects of Trump tariffs set in. The underlying state of the economy is probably worse than the short-term numbers. Read More

As an international organization of Islamic scholars and faith leaders based in Canada, the Global Imams Council (GIC) respectfully calls on all parliamentarians to advance a vision rooted in the principles of compassion, mutual understanding, and dedication to democracy and human dignity. Read More