Vincent Geloso of the Montreal Economic Institute committed heresy in a report released Wednesday: If we believe all tariffs are bad, as we say we do then, he argued, we should be “removing all import taxes and other barriers to foreign producers and investors, without any expectation of reciprocity.” Read More

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder has been added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, with U.S. authorities offering a reward of $10 million if he's apprehended. Read More

Two South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area during a joint live-fire exercise with the U.S. military on Thursday, injuring eight people, officials said. Read More

Amazon is testing artificial intelligence-aided dubbing for select movies and shows offered on its Prime streaming service. Read More

A 26-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to the murder of three women at their family home just north of London was found guilty Thursday of raping one of them, his ex-partner, during the attack. Read More

The owner of a popular Toronto pizzeria, Gram Palmateer, decided to wage his own boycott when Donald Trump threatened to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. Not to mention his threat to annex the whole country.  Read More

Political tensions from the nascent Canada-U.S. trade war have spilled over into the hockey world again. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's insinuation that the former was using the tariff "issue" to "stay in power." Read More

Free trade in North America is dead. Even if the tariffs levied this week, before being put on pause Thursday, are never fully implemented, any new trade deal with the U.S. cannot be trusted, at least while President Donald Trump is in the White House. Canada must operate as if it doesn't share a border with the largest economic power in history. Much of the wealth generated in Canada comes from this simple geography, masking the true damage of this country's anti-business delusions. Read More

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OTTAWA — Canada will not proceed with its second round of tariffs against the United States until next month, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced Thursday, following President Donald Trump's decision to hit pause on his 25 per cent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, covered by its free trade agreement, for a month. Read More

OTTAWA — Coordinated social media influence campaigns by China rife with disinformation, personalized spam emails using stolen personal data, spoof media websites run by Russian propagandists and even fake porn of politicians. Read More

Pope Francis was awake and resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia, the Vatican said. Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Hamas in a social-media post on Wednesday after an Oval Office meeting with a delegation of eight freed Israeli hostages. Read More

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, 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

Meghan Markle doesn't want to be known as Meghan Markle anymore. Read More

The Nova Music Festival Exhibition honouring the survivors and victims murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, is making its inaugural stop in Canada this April beginning with a six week installation Toronto. Read More

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Part of Canada’s strategy for dealing with Donald Trump's tariffs is expanding our trade options. That should include reducing two kinds of internal trade barriers: legal obstacles and transportation costs. Read More

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) should concern itself with identifying terrorist threats, including (and not limited to) threats from radical Islamists within our borders — and not with “Islamophobia.” Read More

Last week I reported that the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, warned on his visit to Canada that peace in Ukraine cannot be built on a foundation of lies. There was pain in his warning, as the days of his visit coincided with U.S. President Donald Trump making his own the lies of President Vladimir Putin regarding Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued what he called a "last warning" to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza, directing a sharply worded message after the White House confirmed that he had recently dispatched an envoy for unprecedented direct talks with the terrorist group. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week. Read More

A new poll suggests the trade war with the United States is now the biggest source of political anxiety for Canadians, knocking inflation out of the top spot. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith introduced a raft of retaliatory measures in response to U.S. tariffs on Wednesday, but says she's still not willing to put the province's energy exports on the table. Read More

Jeff Douglas has done it again. Made us proud to be Canadian with a mix of humour and serious patriotic tugs on our heart strings. Read More

Russia on Wednesday asked how Ukraine could attend potential talks on ending their three-year war when a Ukrainian decree from 2022 rules out negotiations with President Vladimir Putin. Read More

NUUK, Greenland — Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Read More

OTTAWA — The White House announced on Wednesday that the U.S. was providing a one-month exemption to automobiles covered by a free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico from the 25 per cent tariffs he slapped on both countries.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump is asking American growers to bear with him as tariffs threaten to hurt their business and deepen a farm downturn that’s entering a third year. Read More

OTTAWA — If restricting oil exports to the U.S. was the first idea to stir controversy among Canada's leaders as they looked for ways to press President Donald Trump to scrap his tariffs, cutting off its supply of potash might be the second. Read More

For a Harvard and Oxford University graduate, Mark Carney has done some head-shakingly dumb things lately. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney are defending Canadians who booed the American anthem. Read More

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Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie said Wednesday she intends to try again to win a seat in the legislature, but will be leading the party from outside the chamber for the foreseeable future. Read More

The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, who was in the third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia. Read More

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it's seen an increase in complaints about items mislabelled as products of Canada or missing information about their country of origin. Read More

If you’re one of the many Canadians who’ve reportedly cancelled a flight to the U.S. amid the now-ongoing trade war, Flair Airlines has ‘tariffic flight deals’ to rebook and skirt Canada’s southern neighbour. Read More

A federal worker has filed a human rights complaint against Environment and Climate Change Canada claiming the department discriminated against her for reporting a government research scientist for exposing himself on a work video call. Read More