Top administration officials said Sunday that more than 50 countries targeted by President Donald Trump's new tariffs have reached out to begin negotiations over the sweeping import taxes that have sent financial markets reeling, raised fears of a recession and upended the global trading system. Read More

The past week was a tough one for Canadians running to win a seat in Parliament. Read More

In the town of St-Amable, Que., it's plant or pay up. Read More

Rivers rose and flooding worsened Sunday across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people. Read More

Hudson's Bay insiders, including its head honcho Richard Baker, have until the end of Monday to declare whether they're interested in making a bid for any of the ailing company's assets or leases. Read More

A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell. Read More

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced Sunday that he will fund centre-based addictions care for 50,000 Canadians if he becomes prime minister. Read More

Sending children back to school in new sneakers, jeans and T-shirts is likely to cost U.S. families significantly more this fall if the bespoke tariffs President Donald Trump put on leading exporters take effect as planned, American industry groups warn. Read More

A plan to send Tyra the tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller, Alta., into proverbial extinction has sparked demands that she be spared. Read More

For more than a century, Oshawa, Ont., has been the city of autoworkers. Read More

Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in scores of American cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican's first weeks in office. Read More

There is a window of relief for British Columbia farmers from the devastating waves of avian flu, leaving them to assess the toll of outbreaks spanning more than three years that saw millions of birds culled at hundreds of farms. Read More

In a Nova Scotia first, a judge has sentenced a Mi'kmaw man to three months of house arrest for running a roadside cannabis dispensary that operated among many other pot peddling outfits in a First Nations community. Read More

Mark Carney came out swinging after Donald Trump announced his plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on auto imports. “The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over,” the prime minister declared on Parliament Hill. Read More

Recent election campaigns have featured the summary dismissal of nominated candidates, usually because some untoward social media post or previously unknown interview from the past surfaced. Or was surfaced by rivals. Read More

Two weeks after a panel for the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) ruled that I was guilty of unprofessional conduct, for sharing my views on sex and gender ideology, Vancouver Coastal Health authority (VCH) fired me from my job as a registered nurse of 13 years. I was given zero severance pay. Read More

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OTTAWA — Part of downtown Ottawa was locked down Saturday after a man barricaded himself in Parliament Hill's East Block, sparking a major police intervention that lasted for hours. Read More

Canada has updated its advice to those travelling to the United States, warning they may face “scrutiny” from border guards and the possibility of detention if denied entry. Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurtling past Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the “big, beautiful bill” that’s central to his agenda. Read More

Cutting government red tape, boosting a federal apprenticeship grant and getting a family doctor for all Canadians were the key promises from federal party leaders on Saturday. Read More

As we all struggle to estimate the fallout from President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” blanket tariffs, a couple of relevant readings. Monash University economist Zac Gross is a lucky Australian who has the unique privilege of calling his Substack newsletter “Gross National Product.” On Wednesday, Gross made the point often heard from economists, and never from politicians, in countries faced with surging United States economic nationalism: a pure “tit-for-tat” strategy of counter-tariffs does nothing but add to the anti-growth effects of the original injury to trade. It’s smarter to look for pure wins that lower other trade barriers rather than raise new ones — and one obviously available for countries like Canada and Australia is to defect from U.S. intellectual-property maximalism. Read More

DETROIT — Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and international border — one that’s on the brink of being ripped apart. Read More

VANCOUVER — Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband’s voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China’s Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. Read More

Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. Read More

OSHAWA, ONT. — Doors are scheduled to open to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at 6 p.m., but Brett Saltzman arrives at 9:30 a.m.  Read More

In 2014, the German city of Dusseldorf announced that in four years it would open an exhibit dedicated to Max Stern, a local Jewish art dealer who fled the Nazis in 1937, having first been forced to sell off his gallery’s holdings. He settled in Montreal and became a post-war advocate of restitution of art stolen from German Jews. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are ahead of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by a cumulative average of 5 to 6 points. Contrary to popular (Liberal) belief, this doesn’t mean the federal election is over. There’s plenty of political runway left, and more than enough time for Poilievre to make up ground. Read More

Reasonable Canadians should be able to agree, I think and hope, that Mark Carney needn’t answer for anything his father Robert Carney did or said as principal of a federal Indigenous day school in the Northwest Territories — or for any of the things he said in that capacity, or later on as an academic at the University of Alberta. Read More

People who choose to live in Ottawa tend to dislike Preston Manning. The city’s disdain for him is on the same scale as Western Canada’s anger at the memory of Pierre Trudeau. Read More

As was widely predicted, including in this column, U.S. President Donald Trump's initial brinkmanship remarks about Canada and tariffs were his usual shock and awe technique for commencing negotiations. At his "Liberation Day" ceremony on the White House lawn on Wednesday, almost no new tariffs were proposed for Canada and his only direct references to Canada were about our exorbitant and antediluvian supply management measures that cushion the incomes of a large number of Canada's farmers with artificially inflated prices. This has been a particular bugbear of People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier and a ludicrous anomaly that we should not have needed the president of the United States to highlight for us. The best way to deal with farm income insufficiencies is direct income supplements to the farmers, not forcing the entire population to overpay for what they put on their breakfast table. Read More

Israel is in “serious talks with several countries” to relocate large numbers of people out of the Gaza Strip, a senior diplomatic source told JNS and other media outlets during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary. Read More

LONDON -- Prince Andrew's damaged reputation and desperate need for cash are again causing headaches for King Charles III after a court released more documents on Friday showing how Andrew's problems led him to become entangled with a suspected Chinese spy. Read More

GREENBELT, Md. -- A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, while a U.S. government attorney was at a loss to explain what happened. Read More

President Donald Trump had nearly clinched an agreement with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. that would spare the popular app from a U.S. ban, but the deal was scuttled after China withheld its approval following this week’s tariff announcement, according to a person familiar with the matter. Read More

SASKATOON -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he remains concerned with U.S. tariffs on Canadian products but thinks talking with American officials helped Canada avoid a worse outcome. Read More

An Ontario man is facing charges in an alleged theft and leak of Texas Republican Party data in 2021. Read More

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean "Diddy" Combs ' indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year. Read More

OTTAWA — When it comes to CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding under a Carney-led government, the public broadcaster can expect the best of both worlds. Read More

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BANGKOK -- China announced Friday that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" slate of double-digit tariffs. Read More

The 2025 Canadian federal election campaign is in full swing. During such times, extra attention is paid to candidates and party leaders, which can sometimes include digging up stories about their pasts, which is fair game. But on Thursday, CBC went further than most, resurrecting the ghost of Robert Carney to stand trial for using outdated language in a 1965 interview and his nuanced defense of the residential school system. Read More

A new lawsuit claims that the Trump administration's travel policy requiring foreign nationals to register to stay in the U.S. for 30 days or more didn't consider the impact it could have on communities that rely on revenue from Canadian snowbirds. Read More

Experts say U.S. tariffs on Canadian auto imports will drive prices higher for both new and used cars. Read More

Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision "makes all of us less safe." Read More

John Philpott's phones and emails are buzzing with American doctors looking to get "the hell out of the United States." Read More

OTTAWA — French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of what they can expect in about two weeks, when all political leaders will face off in their first debate on April 16. Read More

British police on Friday charged Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian. Read More

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Our cookbook of the week is Kin by Marie Mitchell, a London-based chef, writer and co-founder of Island Social Club. 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

When authorities seized 33 Boston Terriers from a Kingston, Ont., home last November, the dogs were in distress and the smell of urine was so powerful it made an inspector’s eyes burn. Read More

As Canadians approach the upcoming federal election, much attention will understandably focus on the economy — especially in light of recent trade challenges and the mounting cost of living. However, to rebuild not only our prosperity but also our purpose as a nation, Canada must reclaim its lost international standing. The next government must restore Canada’s global credibility and voice. This is not merely a matter of pride — it is a matter of principle, strategy, and long-term national resilience. Read More

Canada’s federal election took a dramatic turn when Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on Canadian exports. Suddenly, what was supposed to be a referendum on Justin Trudeau’s leadership became a campaign about global trade and economic survival. Read More

Last April, the Liberals advertised their broadly disliked consumer carbon tax, est. 2019, by reminding people about that its associated rebate would soon be going out to eligible recipients. And then they attacked the guy who pledged to get rid of it all: “Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives would cut your rebates and take us backward,” read one faux-threat. Read More

In the early days of the federal election, almost everywhere Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre has appeared, so too has his wife Anaida. Read More

VAUGHAN, ONT. — Liberal Leader Mark Carney strolled into an election campaign event on Monday past a ghostly figure. Read More

BELGRADE, Serbia — In Serbia, revolution is in the air. The streets of Belgrade roar each evening as citizens whistle and honk in support of a student protest movement that has, for months, demonstrated against corruption and authoritarianism. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs have marched alongside these students, despite threats of violence, bolstering the greatest wave of civil unrest seen within the country in nearly three decades. Read More

“The leaders agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship immediately following the election.” The Prime Minister’s Office readout of last week's phone call between Liberal Leader Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump appears to signal a desire by both to reset a trade and defence relationship that is giving every indication of running off the rails. Read More

The Liberals have revoked the candidacy of Edmonton-area candidate Rod Loyola after National Post asked about a video in which he praised the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah at a 2009 anti-NATO protest. Read More

OTTAWA -- A Federal Court judge has ordered that a self-described hitman associated with a Mexican drug cartel remain in custody, throwing out a refugee board member's ruling that he be released pending his asylum case. Read More

OTTAWA -- A Superior Court judge has found Ottawa-area graphic designer Patrick Macdonald guilty on three counts of terror and hate-related charges related to the production of antisemitic propaganda for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Read More

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