Pinning down the Trump administration’s justifications for its trade war with the world is a bit of a challenge. One minute it’s about pressuring neighboring countries to crack down on drugs and illegal immigration, and another it’s about forcing “reciprocity” in trade barriers. But the president himself frequently talks about bringing manufacturing and, especially, industrial jobs back to the United States.   Read More

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I’m reading my six-year-old son Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, with all its delightful nonsense talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Read More

MONTREAL -- A 19-year-old man has been charged in the firebombing of a Montreal-area synagogue in December. Read More

Every year when the (Preston) Manning Centre Networking Conference released its program, and every year since it rebranded as the Canada Strong and Free Networking (CSFN) Conference, the Canadian media have gone looking for controversial speakers on the conservative movement’s annual program in Ottawa. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new United States ambassador to Canada. Read More

“One can only correct inappropriate policies in a timely manner if one sticks to seeking truth from facts.” Read More

MONTREAL — A Quebecer convicted last year in a domestic homicide that left a woman and two children dead must remain in a men’s prison despite identifying as a woman, federal corrections officials said Wednesday. Read More

Liberal Leader Mark Carney contends he didn’t intend to endorse the claim by a supporter at a rally in Calgary on Tuesday night who yelled out that there was genocide happening the Middle East. Read More

Something's different. Pierre Poilievre has transformed. Read More

LAVAL -- The man accused of killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was unable to distinguish right from wrong, a psychiatrist told a trial on Tuesday. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump partially reversed course Wednesday on his global trade war following days of market turmoil — but he’s not offering any changes to the tariffs hitting Canada. Read More

Three people walked away with only minor injuries after a train struck a tractor-trailer in Minnesota on Friday, authorities said. Read More

A new poll from Abacus Data found that there appears to be a stark difference in the “emotional drivers” influencing Canadians’ voting intention in the upcoming federal election. The firm also said those factors are spilling over into who voters see as best suited to become the next prime minister. Read More

New York is warning residents about travelling to Canada amid a measles outbreak. Read More

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is shaping up to be as much of a “feminist” prime minister as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Which is to say: not at all. Read More

President Donald Trump urged Americans to remain calm and continue investing on Wednesday as his sweeping reciprocal tariffs hit, in an indication the White House was closely monitoring market reaction to the levies. Read More

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled what may be his toughest anti-crime proposal yet on Wednesday, promising to lock up three-time offenders for at least 10 years if he becomes prime minister. Read More

A Chinese billionaire in British Columbia has taken to social media to announce her plans to buy dozens of Hudson's Bay locations after she saw "Canadians feeling sad" over the collapse of the retail giant. Read More

The roof of an iconic nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic collapsed nearly an hour after a merengue concert began, killing at least 98 people and injuring at least 160. Politicians and athletes were among those at Jet Set in Santo Domingo when disaster struck Tuesday. Read More

OTTAWA — If Preston Manning believes a Liberal government would lead to a rise of separatism in Western Canada, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet thinks both the Liberals and the Conservatives will revive separatist fervour in Quebec. Read More

Canada amped up its retaliatory measures against Donald Trump's tariffs today as the United States president brought his trade war to the world. Read More

The illness that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, in February in New Mexico has now left three more dead in California. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Canada amped up its retaliatory measures against Donald Trump's tariffs today as the United States president brought his trade war to the world. 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

Wayne Gretzky has broken his silence to state publicly that he is "proud...to be Canadian." Read More

VICTORIA, B.C. — In the mostly white-haired crowd at The Victoria Edelweiss Club, waiting to hear from Liberal Leader Mark Carney on Sunday evening, Rhonda Ljunggren stood out. Read More

A new peer-reviewed study has found that British Columbia’s “safer supply” policy was associated with a statistically significant increase in opioid hospitalizations with no reduction in deaths. To make matters worse, it found that the addition of drug possession decriminalization policies was associated with a further increase in hospitalizations. This research vindicates critics of the harm reduction movement, and raises serious concerns about whether the federal Liberals and B.C. NDP acted recklessly by forwarding these untested policies. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s willingness to shield an MP who openly mused about targeting political rivals is more than a scandal. It erodes Canadians' trust.  Read More

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Donald Trump’s massive tariff assault is convulsing global trade and stock markets, but his erratic foreign policy and national security impulses may be even more ominous in terms of global stability, creating consternation and concern among erstwhile allies in Ukraine, Taiwan and NATO. Read More

TORONTO — On the front steps of a Toronto home, two Robs appear at the same door.  Read More

Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy -- described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled -- as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows. Read More

An American man who developed an online relationship with an Edmonton teen and groomed her for over a year before whisking her away to the U.S. and subjecting her to "horrific sexual abuse" has been given a 50-year prison sentence. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region and has information that “significantly more” are with Russian forces, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Tuesday. Read More

Rebel News is suing a federal Crown corporation and a Toronto-area member of Parliament, arguing that the Crown corporation imposed unwarranted security costs and attempted to put a stop to an event featuring Donald Trump Jr. Read More

An Ontario judge has sentenced an Iraqi Uber driver to ten months in jail for sexually assaulting his passenger who was just looking for a ride home from a party. Read More

VANCOUVER — Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, who is now running for Mark Carney's Liberals, dismissed the size of the crowds that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attracting and compared them to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests. Read More