VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican's "trial of the century" announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from participating in the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope for "the good of the church." Read More

OTTAWA — Canadians won't know until later Tuesday whether Mark Carney's Liberals have won a majority or minority mandate from voters. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump quipped on Sunday that it was “the nicest office I have ever seen.” He was speaking of St. Peter’s Basilica which, relative to the late-Saddam style of decor featured at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago, is rather understated. Read More

The Conservatives couldn’t control the one big thing that went wrong for them in the campaign, but they could control the mounting pile of little things. With an election so close — the Liberals winning 168 seats, the Conservatives, 144, as of 10 a.m. ET Tuesday — those little things amounted to a fatal speed bump. Even Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre didn't survive, politically speaking, in his riding, having lost his seat by about 3,800 votes. Read More

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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat in Parliament, complicating earlier plans he announced to stay on as party leader. Read More

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BURNABY, B.C. — News teams had come to Burnaby to document failure. To bear witness to that rare occurrence of a political party immolating in full view of the Canadian public. Read More

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre spoke to a crowd of supporters after it was announced that the Liberals were projected to form government in the 2025 federal election. With his wife, Anaida Poilievre, by his side, the Conservative leader took the stage after midnight on election day. Translations from French have been italicized. Here's what he said. Read More

Read Mark Carney's full victory speech from election night. (Italicized portions were translated from French.) Read More

OTTAWA — In early January, internal polling suggested that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals would win just 49 seats and sit in Parliament as the fourth party if a general election was called. Read More

OTTAWA — The air was sucked out of the bizarrely freezing-cold Canada Room at the Rogers Convention Centre in downtown Ottawa at 10:07 p.m. local time, when CTV News made its call for a Liberal government. A relatively rowdy crowd near the stage, surrounded by photographers and cameras, had been leading chants of “bring it home!” as positive Conservative results trickled in from Atlantic Canada. Things quickly ran out of steam once results started coming in from Quebec and Ontario. Read More

Jamil Jivani, the newly re-elected member of Parliament for Bowmanville—Oshawa North, tore a strip off Ontario Premier Doug Ford in an election-night interview with CBC News. Read More

A big thank you to Susanne. She’s been with us from the beginning. Huge thank you. Appreciate her so much, thank you, thank you. And all of you in this room, you guys poured your heart into this. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. You’re amazing, love you all. And I know, I know election parties —night — parties across the country, people are gathered, I wanna thank them all for all their hard work. They’re amazing people, gathered together across the country. I wanna take a moment to congratulate Prime Minister Carney on his victory. He has an important job to do, to represent all Canadians and to protect our country, and its sovereignty, from the threats of Donald Trump. Tonight and every night, all of us here are on Team Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh said he was stepping down as NDP leader on Monday night after suffering a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat and seeing his party reduced to what would likely be a single-digit seat count. Read More

The riding-rich, voter-dense Greater Toronto Area was looking like a kingmaker for the Liberal Party once again in Monday’s federal vote, delivering a push for Mark Carney while dashing Conservative hopes of a breakthrough. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn't immediately issue a statement when the networks called the federal election for Mark Carney's Liberals at 10:15 PM EST, but it's safe to say that not all is calm on the western front. Read More

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WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday opened a weeklong celebration of Donald Trump's first 100 days in office by focusing on his border crackdown, an area of relative strength for the president at a time when there are red flags for him in the latest round of polling. Read More

OTTAWA — Social media on election day can be the Wild West, with the tumbleweeds of misinformation blowing in left and right. Luckily, there’s a new sheriff in town: the Elections Canada X account. Read More

CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) — Four children were killed and several others were injured when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program Monday afternoon in a town outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said. Read More

MONTREAL — The Bloc Québécois could well find itself with the balance of power of a "foreign parliament," while the Liberal party leads a minority government with significant representation in Quebec. Read More

A judge is ordering the duty-free shop at Canada's second-busiest border crossing into receivership as it struggles to pay off millions of dollars in debt and overdue rent. Read More

VANCOUVER -- Richard Le sent a text to his 16-year-old son on Saturday at about 8 p.m., saying the rest of family would be leaving the Lapu Lapu Day festival shortly, instead Le, his wife Linh Hoang and their five-year-old daughter Katie were run down moments after the text was sent, Le's brother said Monday. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre began election day confronting the issue that most stands in his way to achieving his years-long quest to become prime minister: U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

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PARIS — A trial began Monday in Paris over the 2016 heist in which armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian in her bedroom and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry during Fashion Week. Read More

Millions of Canadians are casting their ballots in the federal election today. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney have been campaigning across Canada, in the hopes of becoming the next prime minister. There are 343 seats up for grabs and the winner will need at least 172 seats to form a majority government. Follow our live coverage, below, featuring National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, columnists Terry Newman, Jamie Sarkonak and Jesse Klein and the National Post digital team. Can't see the live blog? View it on nationalpost.com. Read More

It's election day in Canada. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are vying to be the next prime minister of Canada. Read More

Among the grand old men and women of world politics, Paul Biya stands out as a record holder, the oldest serving state leader at age 92, and president of Cameroon since 1982. Read More

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine on May 8-10 to mark the World War II Victory Day, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration decides whether a deal to end the more than three-year war is within reach. Read More

A young woman felt she had no choice but to go along with what a group of hockey players told her to do inside a London, Ont., hotel room nearly seven years ago, prosecutors told an Ontario court Monday as the players’ sexual assault trial began. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberals are holding their breath awaiting the results of an election that could give their party what they could only dream of mere weeks ago: a majority fourth term. Read More

OTTAWA — Millions of Canadians are expected to cast a ballot today, capping a 36-day election campaign dominated by threats of annexation and tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump and affordability concerns. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Canadians on election day was simple: elect a leader who will surrender Canada’s sovereignty and allow it to become the 51st state. Read More

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.  Read More

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. Read More

A convicted murderer who kept his victim's severed head in a bucket claims prison authorities in British Columbia are wrongfully withholding books he has acquired during his life sentence, including Hitler's "Mein Kampf." 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