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
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 said Wednesday that he is immediately pausing tariffs on most nations for 90 days following market turmoil triggered by his trade war with the world _ but it was not immediately clear what the impact will be on Canada. 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
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
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
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
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
Former prime minister Stephen Harper endorsed Pierre Poilievre at a rally in Edmonton, Atla., on April 7. Here are the English portions of his speech:Read More
EDMONTON — Alberta is fundamentally changing how it funds hospital surgeries, but critics say the change won't improve the public system and will only accelerate more care in the privatized system. Read More
Last week, an Edmonton man was given a four-year prison term (with only six months left) for beating another man to death in a jealous rage. The Liberal-appointed judge gave him such a lowball sentence because the offender was Indigenous, had a rough personal history, and because “a restrained view of sentencing in this case serves the goal of rehabilitation in Canadian society.” Read More
LONDON — Prince Harry was treated unfairly when he was stripped of his British security detail, his attorney told appeals court judges Tuesday. Read More
Perhaps in hopes of kindling some support in Quebec, the NDP announced former parliamentarian Ruth Ellen Brosseau — dubbed “Vegas Girl” when first elected as a 27-year-old in 2011 — as its candidate for the riding of Berthier—Maskinongé. Read More
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed she suffered from a condition called postpartum preeclampsia following the birth of one of her children. Read More