OTTAWA — Nearly half of Canadians say they would vote Liberal if an election were called today, giving Prime Minister Mark Carney's party its largest lead since 2016. Read More

David Common’s daily routine is anything but common. On Feb. 2, he became the newest host of CBC Morning Live, taking the baton from Heather Hiscox after her retirement. Read More

A kitchen tends to be the heart of a home, a hub where people not only prepare and store food but also gather to enjoy each other’s company. As such, functional design is crucial. What good is a kitchen that looks good on social media but demands Cirque du Soleil-like choreography just to make some pasta? Read More

CANBERRA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday Canada will "defend our allies" when it comes to the war against Iran, not ruling out future military participation. Read More

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw tests this week of his country's naval destroyer, claiming Pyongyang is in the process of "arming the Navy with nuclear weapons," state media reported Thursday. Read More

More than 100 Labour Party lawmakers have urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to rethink changes to the U.K.’s immigration system, underscoring the scale of opposition confronting him from within his own ranks. Read More

President Donald Trump on Wednesday rated the U.S. performance in the war with Iran as a 15 on a scale of 10, saying the Islamic republic's leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowing to push on. Read More

Ontario education minister Paul Calandra says the return of paper report cards is one of the priorities for Ontario schools. Read More

“Proud to be #2 in the world,” was the front-page ad Toronto General Hospital (TGH) took out in Sunday’s Toronto Star to welcome some recent good news: Newsweek magazine recently named TGH the second-best hospital in the world, ahead of the Cleveland Clinic and behind the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Heady company, all will agree, even if such obsequious pride in second place seemed a bit, well, Canadian. (“Clearly they didn’t have Asian parents,” ER physician Kashif Pirzada quipped on X.) Read More

Last weekend it became known that the Federal Government had signed an aboriginal rights agreement with the Musqueam First Nation, which acknowledged rights and title “within” a large area encompassing most of Metro Vancouver. This bilateral agreement between the Carney government and the Musqueam sets out their shared intention to “negotiate” Aboriginal title for the Musqueam within their vast claimed territory using the principles of UNDRIP as their lodestar. Read More

Mike Myers has officially reached icon status. Read More

BERLIN — Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre promised a Conservative government would sign binding supply agreements with European allies such as Germany to supply them with natural gas while "overriding bureaucracies and other levels of government" to speed up building pipelines and LNG terminals. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney got a little bit chippy when asked by a National Post reporter if he agreed with an unnamed government official who downplayed India’s role in transnational repression and foreign interference in a briefing last week. Read More

OTTAWA — As progressives from across Canada and the world gather in Ottawa this week, one topic that will be near the top of the agenda is the rapid ascent of artificial intelligence (AI) in society. Read More

Galle, Sri Lanka —  A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 87 sailors and leaving dozens missing, officials said. Read More

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a broad 10 per cent tariff rate to 15 per cent will likely be done this week. Read More

Washington — The U.S. Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution aimed at curbing U.S. President Donald Trump's authority to continue military strikes on Iran, in the first congressional test of support for a conflict launched without explicit approval from lawmakers. Read More

Gas prices in Canada are already rising — nine cents per litre since Saturday — as the attacks on Iran entered their fifth day. Dan McTeague, a former Liberal MP and president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, predicted that initial increase and says more is on the way this week. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel increase the risks of Iranian-linked terrorism throughout North America, and while Canadian agencies have not issued a public statement, U.S. agencies have said they are on heightened alert. Read More

After a “turn for the worse” late last week, Tumbler Ridge mass shooting survivor Maya Gebala was showing signs of improvement early this week, even intently watching some favourite shows from her hospital bed, her parents shared. Read More

The answer to whether or not Canada supports the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a murderous regime that sponsors terrorism in the Middle East and around the world, has been needlessly complicated. Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have settled on somewhere between "Yes, but" and "sort of." Read More

U.S. Army Reserve Command released images of the four U.S. soldiers killed in the war on Iran. Read More

The Assembly of Experts, the Iranian body of clerics tasked with selecting a new supreme leader after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly picked his son as the most likely candidate. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More