It is progress that the Prime Minister’s Office is now letting Canadians know when Mark Carney speaks with President Donald Trump, but it would be much better if the read-out that followed didn’t subtract from the sum of human knowledge. Read More

OTTAWA — The G7 finance ministers met on Monday to discuss the potential release of emergency oil reserves amid soaring prices due to the Iranian conflict but stopped short of providing that relief. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that 11 countries had tapped Kyiv for help in how to counter Iranian drones being fired by Tehran in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes. Read More

A Canadian mother of four has died after undergoing cosmetic surgery procedures in Turkey, news outlets are reporting. Read More

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to two counts of making false claims certifying that he was a U.S. citizen on North Carolina voter registration applications in 2022 and 2024 to vote in elections in those years, including in the 2024 presidential election, the Department of Justice has said. Read More

OTTAWA — Opposition leaders blasted Prime Minister Mark Carney for missing a debate on Canada's position on the war in Iran and the Middle East on Monday evening amid sharp criticism about Carney's evolving position on the conflict. Read More

If you’re one of the declining number of Canadians escaping to a warmer destination in the U.S. for March break, be aware that now more of your electronic devices could be searched at the border. Read More

Sexual assault charges against auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach involving three of his seven accusers have been abandoned by the Crown because, after their testimony, there is no longer a prospect of finding him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Read More

Paris — Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on desalination plants — critical infrastructure for millions of people in the arid region. Read More

A vast majority of Canadians — including the prime minister — think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother to King Charles III, should be removed from the line of succession to the crown. It's a position Andrew still holds in spite of having been stripped of his royal titles, something that happened even before his arrest last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Read More

Monday is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Smith is probably the best-known and least-read economist, which explains why he is so often misunderstood. Read More

Confusing messages are the only guarantee after the Cowichan ruling and the Musqueam deal. The August court case confirmed that a First Nation band has “title” over B.C. land that belongs to private property owners, while the federal government’s deal confirms Musqueam rights and title over Vancouver. Dwight Newman, a law professor specializing in Indigenous rights, tells Brian Lilley that assurances to private property owners that they won’t lose their land only go so far. What might not be targeted today could be tomorrow, he says. They discuss how the court case and government deal, along with the growing power of UNDRIP in Canadian law, only give more power and leverage to First Nations. And not just in B.C., but across Canada. (Recorded March 5, 2026.) Read More

A powerful explosion rocked the façade of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, early on Monday morning, resulting in no injuries. 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

Ashley Chand spent more than a decade working her way up through the ranks of human resources and administration positions at some of Vancouver’s most prestigious law firms. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

Statistics Canada will soon release the February labour force survey. When it arrives next Friday, headlines will focus on the unemployment rate and net job creation. Those numbers will matter, particularly as the economy contracted 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 and posted just 1.7 per cent growth for the full year, the weakest since the pandemic. Read More

The folly of Canada’s last decade of energy policy is a never-ending saga for which the costs to Canadians and Canadian industry seem only to rise. As the price of a barrel of oil and LNG skyrocket due to American and Israel military action in Iran and its fallout, Canada should be sitting on a massive opportunity to benefit from soaring prices. However, a decade of neglect and underinvestment in pipelines and egress capacity sees us looking wistfully on as other nations, such as the Untied States benefit while we toil away for little gain. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More

It looks like critics who were concerned about whether there would be bias in the upcoming Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) exhibit "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present" had cause to be concerned, after all. Read More

There's been much focus on - and debate around - the problems in Canada's immigration system and whether the prime minister is prepared to seriously address the mess left by his predecessor. Although overall immigration levels have come down, there are still significant pressures on the system, notably when it comes to asylum claims. The opposition Conservatives are pressing the government to crack down on those whose claims have been found to be bogus and to limit government benefits to those who remain in Canada despite rejected claims. Rob Breakenridge speaks with Conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Immigration Michelle Rempel-Garner. Read More

Iraq, which had recently regained some stability after decades of conflict, was immediately dragged into the Middle East war triggered when the United States and Israel attacked Iran last weekend. Read More

A homemade incendiary thrown near anti-Islam protesters outside the New York mayor's residence was a viable improvised explosive device "that could have caused serious injury or death," police said Sunday. Read More