When Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, the U.S. was experiencing booming growth, a strong job market, low inflation and the foundations for future manufacturing expansion. Read More

Last Friday, leadership hopeful Ruby Dhalla found out, live, on-air, from CBC Power and Politics' David Cochrane, that the Liberal Party had disqualified her from the race for "extremely serious" violations. Dhalla called these allegations "false and fabricated" suggesting that they were levelled against her in order to "complete Mark Carney's coronation." One thing's for sure, her disqualification happened in the eleventh hour — the story broke just before 5 p.m. EST on Friday, with the two Liberal leadership debates taking place Monday and Tuesday in Montreal.  Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta has an unlikely new ally when it comes to the fight against crime: Quebec. Read More

In my capacity as Québec minister of justice and minister responsible for Canadian relations, I wish to express my support for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent initiatives to bolster the fight against crime and ensure public safety. In her February 10, 2025 letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, she emphasized the impact of recent legislative changes adopted by the Liberal government on public confidence in our justice system and, more specifically, the confidence of victims. We agree with this viewpoint. Read More

The Toronto Zoo says a 17-year-old Sulawesi babirusa has died after an incident that appears to have involved human error. Read More

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives released their platform Monday, with three days until election day, and it contains $40 billion in promises plus a proposal to get rid of the minimum retail price for liquor. Read More

MONTREAL — Liberal leadership hopefuls will square off face-to-face for the first time Monday night during a French debate that will test both their policy proposals and their ability to speak the language. Read More

Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he would cap immigration until it returns to sustainable, pre-pandemic trendlines. Read More

Organized burglary gangs blending sophistication with brute force are wintering in Canada from Latin America and Eastern Europe as “crime tourists,” coming to take advantage of early seasonal darkness and Canadian habits to ransack and loot homes. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders have arrived in Ukraine’s capital to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of that country. Read More

(Feb. 24, 2025 / JNS) -- Germany’s conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) won Sunday’s election, receiving 28.6 per cent of the votes. Read More

WASHINGTON — Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent who has penned best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for office, and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast, has been chosen to serve as FBI deputy director. Read More

Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over themselves to believe the very worst of their own countries. Read More

They said that calling an early provincial election was hubris, yet Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford may win an even bigger majority on Feb. 27. They scoffed when he claimed a vote was needed to fight U.S. tariffs, but that turned out to be all Ontarians were thinking about. And, as Brian Lilley discusses this week with Postmedia Ontario columnists Chris Selley and Lorrie Goldstein, Ford’s tough-talking tariff campaign has only boosted his popularity. One reason they suggest Ford is winning could be that Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and NDP Leader Marit Stiles can’t understand what voters see in the guy. But they also weigh whether voters have simply lost faith in idealistic politicians promising they can fix things. (Recorded Feb. 21, 2025.) Read More

The crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight in Toronto this week highlighted the potential dangers of flying with a young child sitting on an adult's lap. The plane flipped over, which would make holding onto a baby extremely difficult. Read More

The Vatican on Monday announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, and invited Romans and others to join in, as the 88-year-old pontiff battled a complex lung infection and complications. Read More

Canada will send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday at a peace and security summit in Kyiv. Read More

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, 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

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in 357. Read More

Months after voters handed them an unexpectedly stiff loss — widely interpreted as a thorough repudiation by the electorate — Democrats are confused about which direction to turn. Or, more accurately, party leaders seem committed to going further in the progressive direction while the rank and file would like a whole lot less of that. Read More

Mark Carney portrays himself as a political outsider and Liberal leadership candidate who represents change. One of his few policy proposals is to replace the consumer carbon tax with a complex regulatory scheme that will result in a higher industrial carbon tax on big emitters and subsidies for consumer purchases of environmentally friendly products. Further he will place tariffs on products from countries with weak carbon policies as well as tighten financial regulations that will make it more difficult for big emitters to raise capital. Canadian taxpayers will not be better off since companies will pass on their increased costs to consumers, who will lose the consumer carbon tax rebates, and only prosperous Canadians will be able to take advantage of subsidies for products like electric cars. Read More

Recently, Mark Carney sat back and failed to negate the claim that he deserved credit for having saved Canadian banks from the misadventures of our American neighbours during the 2008 financial crisis. Carney can claim no such credit. In actuality, there are historical reasons for Canada's lack of vulnerability to such financial upsets, including a divergent institutional pathway and regulatory changes recommended by Canadian Supreme Court Judge Willard Estey that safe-guarded Canada's banking system from the financial crisis. Read More

OTTAWA — With only days before the first round of tariffs take effect, Canada's allies in Washington, D.C. are pushing for U.S. President Donald Trump to permanently rescind the measures, arguing a trade war would cause economic harm on both sides of the border. Read More

Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk's latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs. Read More

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford offered little clarity Sunday on how he would pay for billions of dollars in promises if re-elected, as looming tariffs from the U.S. continue to keep economic stability at the forefront of the election campaign. Read More

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lacklustre victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to be in Kyiv on Monday along with a dozen other world leaders as Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of that country. Read More

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he would be ready to give up the presidency if doing so would achieve a lasting peace for his country under the security umbrella of the NATO military alliance. Read More

Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for the revocation of Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada's sovereignty. Read More

With Canadians — and even Quebecers — rallying around the flag in the face of threats from the Trump administration, the sovereigntist Parti Quebecois is struggling to find its footing. Read More

Presumed Liberal leadership front-runner Mark Carney faces a major test Monday in Montreal, when he and his rivals square off in person for the first time in a French-language debate. Read More

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented,” and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection. Read More

Liberals are magicians. Through sleights of hand and by proroguing Parliament, the Liberals could yet win another election with a new leader. Read More

During his lifetime, Philip Holland was known as a dedicated Crown prosecutor who put the bad guys behind bars. Read More

On Thursday morning, the federal heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, gave forth the outlines of her plan to reform the CBC and adapt it to the future. You might think such an exercise would involve asking questions about the CBC’s prior performance, or whether a state broadcaster is really necessary in the 21st century, or exactly what parts of it are essential. Read More

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said that, were he to form government, he would impose harsh imprisonment for fentanyl trafficking, including mandatory life sentences for major dealers. This is a laudable idea, even if his proposed legal mechanism for enacting these reforms is questionable. Read More

A Vancouver theology school has cancelled a public lecture that was slated for next month by a renowned British historian over his views on Indian Residential Schools and colonialism. Read More