COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Read More

The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote. Read More

An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster -- for the United States. Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Authorities revealed Friday that actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and showed severe signs of Alzheimer's disease a full week after his wife died of hantavirus in their home. Read More

Moosehead Breweries has just announced the "Presidential Pack" with 1,461 beers, one for each day of the Donald Trump's presidential term. Read More

Senator Patrick Brazeau has challenged Donald Trump Jr., the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, to a boxing match for charity in a social media post Thursday. Read More

(March 7, 2025 / JNS) -- U.S. President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that he sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Washington or face possible military action. Read More

In a moment of national crisis, Canadians don’t seem to be in the mood for politicians getting their elbows up on one another at home. Read More

The federal Liberals will pick a new party leader and prime minister on March 9. Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney has a significant lead over his closest rival, former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland. He’s been ahead by double digits since late January. A Feb. 11 Leger poll suggested the gap was an eye-popping 54 points (68 to 14 per cent). Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre debuted his sternest words yet for U.S. President Donald Trump, as the question of who is best suited to handle his threats appears to be quickly becoming the defining issue of the next election.  Read More

A darkening mood is settling in across Canada as it becomes clear that our country has come under siege by those we had previously believed to have been our closest friends and partners. We may have hoped that this would not come to be, but we are here now and we can’t pretend otherwise. Despite the appearance of randomness and incoherence, we are beginning to more clearly understand the rudimentary strategy at play behind what some have observed as “a dumb” move. Read More

For a few terrifying moments in November, Toronto’s fashionable Queen Street West turned into something more like the Wild West. Read More

OTTAWA — In the final days of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, the Liberals have banned nearly 200 additional types of firearms and promised details on the mandatory buyback compensation this spring. Read More

King Charles III wore Canadian military honours on Tuesday, the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met the monarch in the United Kingdom. Read More

U.S. employers added solid 151,000 jobs last month, but the outlook is cloudy as President Donald threatens a trade war, purges the federal workforce and promises to deport millions of immigrants. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to change the Conflict of Interest Act to force party leadership candidates to disclose financial holdings within a month of declaring their candidacy. Read More

Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Babette's Bread by Babette Kourelos, a Saint-Lazare, Que.-based artisan baker and baking instructor. Read More

Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia, in stable condition and resuming his therapies after giving the world a tangible indication of just how frail and sick he is. 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

Anyone who has had an encounter with a Canada goose knows they won’t be messed with easily. An American bald eagle learned that lesson in a clash with a goose late last month. Read More

Warrant Officer Greg Hudson was sleeping when he got the call. Read More

Mark Carney's greatest skill appears to be his remarkable ability to find a soft landing when things get complicated. His most recent exit was on Jan. 15 from GFANZ, an organization he founded and co-chaired which is now being investigated by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for allegedly violating antitrust laws by pressuring companies to adopt net-zero goals. Whatever political motivations may be behind this probe, it indicates a major decline in popularity for the kind of climate-focused agenda Carney had been pushing. Read More

Canadian politicians agree on virtually nothing except that apologies are owed. Read More

Imagine that a well-armed terrorist organization, a proxy for an autocratic state, occupies a neighbouring nation and then indiscriminately fires thousands of rockets across the border at you. With tens of thousands of your people having to evacuate and countless others cowering in bomb shelters, would you sit back and do nothing? Or, would you fight back to protect your people? Read More

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed uncertainty that NATO would come to the United States' defence if the country were attacked, though the alliance did just that after Sept. 11 -- the only time in its history that the defence guarantee has been invoked. Read More

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was entirely within his rights to ask the Governor General to prorogue Parliament in January, ruled the chief justice of the Federal Court in a first ever decision of its kind. Read More

Vincent Geloso of the Montreal Economic Institute committed heresy in a report released Wednesday: If we believe all tariffs are bad, as we say we do then, he argued, we should be “removing all import taxes and other barriers to foreign producers and investors, without any expectation of reciprocity.” Read More

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder has been added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, with U.S. authorities offering a reward of $10 million if he's apprehended. Read More

Two South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area during a joint live-fire exercise with the U.S. military on Thursday, injuring eight people, officials said. Read More

Amazon is testing artificial intelligence-aided dubbing for select movies and shows offered on its Prime streaming service. Read More

A 26-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to the murder of three women at their family home just north of London was found guilty Thursday of raping one of them, his ex-partner, during the attack. Read More

The owner of a popular Toronto pizzeria, Gram Palmateer, decided to wage his own boycott when Donald Trump threatened to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. Not to mention his threat to annex the whole country.  Read More

Political tensions from the nascent Canada-U.S. trade war have spilled over into the hockey world again. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's insinuation that the former was using the tariff "issue" to "stay in power." Read More

Free trade in North America is dead. Even if the tariffs levied this week, before being put on pause Thursday, are never fully implemented, any new trade deal with the U.S. cannot be trusted, at least while President Donald Trump is in the White House. Canada must operate as if it doesn't share a border with the largest economic power in history. Much of the wealth generated in Canada comes from this simple geography, masking the true damage of this country's anti-business delusions. Read More