For the first time in the 2025 election campaign, a poll has emerged showing the Conservatives in the lead. Read More

Professors moved classes online and protesters blocked access to classrooms at McGill University this week as a three-day student strike kicked off. Read More

What do you call a Canadian political leader, in the age of Trump, who seems to put their own interests “ahead of the country” in the matter of Canada-U.S. relations? Read More

The word "groceries" came up again during President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement on Wednesday, drawing responses that have ranged from humorous to incredulous. Read More

It's finally happened. On April, 2, a day he coined "Liberation Day," U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled large placards, not unlike the tablets of Moses, with the names of countries and the tariff rates he'd assigned to them, revealing his plans to reshape global trade. Read More

The day after Donald Trump released his “declaration of economic independence,” raising the weighted average tariff rate on U.S. imports to 24 per cent, John Ivison sat down with Canada’s former ambassador to the U.S., David MacNaughton, to discuss how this country might respond to what appears to be the end of the globalization era. Read More

An OnlyFans creator who goes by Jessica Wetz was one of the latest additions on the campaign trail for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh — until the party said Thursday it would no longer be working with her due to comments she made about the Holocaust. Read More

Who speaks for Ontario in this federal election? Read More

When the White House published a complete list of its reciprocal tariffs — running over several pages and naming close to 200 countries and territories — it was topped by China, a country of more than 1.4 billion people and home to the second largest economy in the world, after the United States. Its reciprocal tariff rate was 37 per cent. Read More

SOUTHGATE, Mich. — An explosion destroyed a house before dawn Thursday in suburban Detroit and severely injured two people, including a man who was blown outside to the lawn. Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. — Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he disagrees with calls from former Reform Party leader Preston Manning that a vote for Liberal Leader Mark Carney amounts to a "vote for Western secession."  Read More

Financial markets around the world are reeling Thursday following President Donald Trump's latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it. Read More

JONQUIÈRE, QUE – “Tell your leader to stop hitting Mark Carney. He doesn't have to do it. He is not the target, Trump is.” Read More

OTTAWA — Canada is hitting back against U.S. auto tariffs, slapping a 25 per cent retaliatory border levy on all American-made vehicle imports not covered by free trade deals. Read More

OTTAWA — Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 Freedom Convoy mass protest in Ottawa. Read More

The richest American is also the richest person in the world, according to the latest edition of Forbes' World's Billionaires List. You probably know his name. But who is the richest Canadian in the world? Read More

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Liberal MP Paul Chiang said something profoundly unpardonable. Liberal Leader Mark Carney was perfectly content to pardon him for it. But public outrage ensued, so Chiang fell on his sword and resigned. End of story. Read More

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the Liberals are widening the gap in three key provinces, all expected battlegrounds to form the next federal government. Read More

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The 2025 Canadian federal election is underway, and there is an issue that needs to become a campaign priority for all parties, politicians and voters: freedom of expression. Western civilization is at an inflection point when it comes to free speech and censorship. We need to consider the direction we are going as a free society, and whether we want to become another example of increased censorship, or an example to the world on the value of open discourse free from fear. Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gunfire erupted as thousands of protesters in Haiti clashed with police on Wednesday as they denounced a surge in gang violence and demanded that the government keep them safe. Read More

When the first president of the United States,  George Washington, announced the Tariff Act of 1789, imposing a five per cent tariff on all imports, did he botch things as badly as the 47th president did on Wednesday? Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels this week to a gathering of top diplomats from NATO countries and is sure to find allies that are alarmed, angered and confused by the Trump administration's desire to reestablish ties with Russia and its escalating rhetorical attacks on longtime transatlantic partners. Read More

The Competition Bureau pushed back on Google in its ongoing lawsuit over the tech giant's advertising practices in Canada, accusing the company of seeking to mask its alleged anticompetitive conduct. Read More

Although Canada largely appears to have been spared from Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs, at his press conference on Wednesday, the president aired specific complaints about Canadian trade practices and made it abundantly clear that when it comes to trade, America is only looking out for its own interests. Read More

The Tax Court of Canada has issued a set of public warnings in a case involving a "leveraged donation scheme" where prospective donors were lured with promises that their tax breaks would eclipse their contributions, but in reality they ended up ineligible for charitable donation tax credits. Read More

Toronto-born musician Neil Young, who is also an American citizen, says he "may be barred" from entering the United States over comments he made about President Donald Trump. Read More

Senate Republicans faced pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to oppose a Democratic resolution that would nullify the presidential emergency on fentanyl he is using to implement tariffs on Canada. Read More

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Read More

In the early days of the 2025 federal election, predictions of possible outcome scenarios have radically altered from what looked like a Conservative sweep to power when the year began. Read More

OTTAWA — After weeks of anticipation, Canada was spared from additional U.S. tariffs on Wednesday as President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new border levies on imports to the U.S. from dozens of countries on what the president has called "Liberation Day." Read More

TORONTO — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he has not reached out to anyone in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to ensure that he "does not divide Canada's voice." Read More

(April 2, 2025 / JNS) -- The Israel Defense Forces has deployed another division to the Gaza Strip following overnight strikes on the enclave’s south, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stating on Wednesday morning that “Operation Strength and Sword” is being expanded. Read More

America's 49th state is showing support for the country that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make its 51st. Read More

Val Kilmer, the charismatic actor whose baritone voice and range propelled him to stardom in roles such as Batman and Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in the "Top Gun" films, died April 1 at age 65. Read More

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The Trump administration said it made an “administrative error” in deporting a suspected MS-13 gang member to an El Salvador prison despite an immigration judge’s order barring his removal to that nation. 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