OTTAWA —  Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says when it comes to calls from within the province to separate from Canada, political leaders shouldn't let the "small minority dominate the agenda." Read More

OTTAWA — Mark Carney says his cabinet has left "instructions" for officials to help prepare the next government for upcoming negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. Read More

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TORONTO — Police in Durham Region say they’ve arrested a Toronto man after he allegedly pretended to be a teenager in order to have a relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Read More

LONDON (AP) -- Police in London arrested six people on Thursday after environmental activists from Greenpeace poured 300 litres (79 gallons) of blood-red dye into a pond in front of the U.S. Embassy in a protest against arms sales to Israel. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer sentiment plunged in April, the fourth consecutive month of declines, in a seemingly sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s trade wars that have fueled anxiety over possible job losses and rising inflation. Read More

Saskatchewan is the province that wants to leave Canada the most if Liberals win the upcoming election in Canada, a new poll finds. Read More

NEW YORK — A family from Spain was about to celebrate the ninth birthday of one of their children when their sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey, killing all six people aboard, officials said Friday. Read More

BRUSSELS — European countries vowed Friday to sends billions of dollars in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia’s invasion, as a U.S. envoy pursued peace efforts in a trip to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing questions about the Kremlin’s willingness to stop the more than three-year war. Read More

The Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, part of the University of Prince Edward Island, has apologized to its former artist-in-residence, after he stepped away from the position over a dispute with one of his paintings. Read More

Viola Davis isn't here to play by anyone else's rules. Instead, she’s changing the game completely. 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

As Canadians flex their patriotic muscles and hold “elbows up” in response to punishing U.S. tariffs, many might be surprised that another economic crisis has been percolating here for years — from inside the country. Read More

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OTTAWA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Liberal Leader Mark Carney of attacking Israel after he appeared to endorse a protestor's comment earlier this week that there is a "genocide" of Palestinians being carried out in Gaza. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Matzah and Flour by Hélène Jawhara Piñer, a historian and chef based in Bordeaux, France. Read More

A new poll suggests 60 per cent of Canadians say they will personally feel the effects of U.S. tariffs -- and most believe Canada should fight back. Read More

Donald Trump is undergoing his annual physical on Friday, potentially giving the public its first details in years about the health of a man who in January became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president. Read More

Voter registration cards are expected to land in the mailboxes of Canadian voters by Friday, April 10. Read More

Axing the Tax: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Carbon Tax is a new book from Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Published by Sutherland House Books, it delivers a damning account of one of Canada’s most polarizing policies. In this excerpt, Terrazzano tackles the core promise behind the carbon tax: that it would reduce emissions. Read More

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In a celebration of freedom, unity and shared human dignity, this week I hosted a pre-Passover dinner, drawing faith leaders, public servants, and changemakers from across the Greater Toronto Area. Held in the spirit of Passover — a holiday that commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt — this gathering was more than a shared meal. Read More

To help you cast an informed vote, the National Post has put together an issue-by-issue breakdown of the parties' announced policies, so you can compare them side by side. Read More

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How best to sum up the current Canadian political situation? “Mark Carney looks like Paul Martin — and baby boomers think it’s still the 1990’s.” Their children, however — and their grandchildren — know nothing of such Liberal leaders. They live in the current decade. Consequently, an unprecedented divide now exists between Canadians this election cycle, segregated by age. Read More

Canada’s former top trade negotiator said Thursday that if nations around the world co-ordinate their responses to Donald Trump’s global trade war, the U.S. president would be more likely to back away from tariffs sooner. Read More

“I heard you didn’t like us anymore,” Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley quipped after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s address to the Canada Strong and Free Network (CSFN) Conference in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon. Lilley was Smith’s interlocutor in one of those “fireside chats” that are so popular at such conferences. He was reacting to Smith’s very patriotic "Team Canada" speech. Read More

LOS ANGELES -- Jillian Lauren, author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot and injured by Los Angeles police and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after pointing a gun at officers from her front yard, authorities said Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says whether a re-elected Liberal government would pose a threat to national unity depends on how Albertans react, emphasizing that Liberal Leader Mark Carney has existing "damage" to repair. Read More

Like several Liberal leaders on campaign trails before him, Mark Carney successfully completed the Hip Flip with guerrilla journalist and radio host Nardwuar the Human Serviette in a new video posted Wednesday. Read More

The City of Vaughan, Ont., is considering changing the name of its thoroughfare known as America Avenue to Terry Fox Avenue. Read More

B.C.'s top court has set aside a 21-month jail sentence and replaced it with house arrest for an Indigenous offender who punched another man, fracturing his skull and causing a severe brain injury. Read More

During the recent provincial election, Doug Ford promised to protect Ontarians from American tariffs and spend a lot of money doing it. The premier delivered on the biggest part of his plan this week, with $9 billion in temporary tax deferrals and $2 billion in workplace safety premium rebates. Read More

Well, I admit I didn’t see that one coming. I’m referring, of course, to Mark Carney’s gaffe at a Calgary campaign stop, where he responded to a protester’s yell that there was a “genocide” going on in Gaza, with agreement — “I know” — and a further sop, “I’m aware. That is why we have an arms embargo (against Israel).” Read More

Lizz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, said Mark Carney did “a terrible job” as the Bank of England governor and blamed him for “a lot of the problems” that led to her quick departure from 10 Downing Street in 2022, even though he’d resigned two years earlier. Read More

Amid an ongoing trade war with Canada and on-and-off-again tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump took a moment on Wednesday to sign an executive order to "make America's showers great again." Read More

In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance on Tuesday, top White House economic adviser Stephen Miran made the perfect Freudian slip: tripping on the words “tariff rates,” he instead said something closer to “terror rates” — and that really sums up the cudgel that President Donald Trump is now waving at the world. Read More

New travel numbers suggest Canadians made fewer return trips from the United States last month compared to the same time last year, with a sharp decline in trips by car. Read More

There are disappointed students, anxious parents and cautious school officials in at least two Canadian school districts that have suspended or cancelled trips over political uncertainty in the United States. Read More