Friday marked the final day of the premiership of Justin Trudeau. He leaves under a cloud of near-unprecedented personal unpopularity. And, despite a smattering of early successes, such as legalized marijuana, his nine-year tenure saw a noticeable worsening of everything from crime to productivity to rent to health-care wait times. “This may be my last day here in this office, but I will always be boldly and unapologetically Canadian. My only ask is that no matter what the world throws at us, you always be the same," he said in his last address as prime minister. Read More

Back in the disco era, long before he became one of Canada's top soldiers, Michel Maisonneuve was an exchange officer with a French regiment, based in Sedan, in the Ardennes. Read More

It has been 10 years since the late great Canadian poet singer Leonard Cohen wrote the poem “Kanye West Is Not Picasso,” and though he did not live to record it in song, it reads like a diss track. Read More

The following excerpt is from Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker’s Battle for Canadian Liberties and Independence by Bob Plamondon, published by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. Foreword by Jean Chrétien.  Read More

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TEL AVIV — On Friday, Hamas announced that Israeli-American Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old IDF soldier, along with the remains of four other dual American-Israelis, will be released imminently. The terrorist group also rejected the most recent proposal for an extended ceasefire and hostage release presented by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Read More

I recently received the following series of rhetorical exhortations from a friend who, like many Canadians, is unable to discuss President Donald Trump rationally. He wrote: “Imagine America deporting an academic from Columbia University for criticizing Israel. Imagine a President who repeats every morning that he is at war with Canada with the intent to achieve Anschluss. Imagine an American population that stands meekly by as its president acts as a dictator, internally and globally, no check, no balance, no accountability. Compare the quality of leadership in America with that of Russia and China these days.” Read More

I have lost my case with the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). A three-member panel found me guilty of “unprofessional conduct” for sharing my views on sex and gender ideology, in a manner that they have ruled as, at times, “discriminatory and derogatory” towards transgender identified persons. Read More

OTTAWA — During his leadership-race victory speech on Sunday, now Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney went off-script to take a shot at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Read More

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. Read More

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's military accused neighboring India on Friday of sponsoring insurgents in a restive southwestern province, where an unprecedented attack by armed separatists this week killed 26 passengers aboard a hijacked train. Read More

Measles cases are rising in Canada, the country's chief public health officer is urging people to get vaccinated, and Ontario is dealing with an ongoing "multi-jurisdictional outbreak." As of March 12, a total of 372 cases (277 confirmed, 95 probable) from 11 public health units have been reported in Ontario that are associated with an outbreak that began last October. Thirty-one people required hospitalization. Thirty were unvaccinated, 27 of whom were children, including one child who needed intensive care, Public Health Ontario reported Thursday. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz didn't mince words when asked on Thursday about the legacy of federal counterpart Steven Guilbeault, as news broke he was on his way out of the environment and climate portfolio. Read More

Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish has come under fire for posing for a photograph with a controversial local anti-Israel activist who attempted to organize a vigil for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last year. Read More

Friday morning in Ottawa, long-Liberal-wooed Mark Carney was finally sworn in as prime minister. Before the ceremony began, his X account posted: "Today, we’re building a government that meets the moment. Canadians expect action — and that’s what this team will deliver. A smaller, experienced cabinet that moves faster, secures our economy, and protects Canada’s future." Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has rebuffed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's comments, made on Canadian soil, echoing Donald Trump's "51st state" rhetoric questioning Canadian sovereignty. Read More

Mark Carney is prime minister of Canada. If newspapers ran emojis, I would insert the “man shrugging” one here. Nothing else makes much sense nowadays, so why not? But thus far, and it’s admittedly early hours — hours that everyone will likely forget once the election campaign begins anyway — the Mark Carney era is a baffling mixture of constancy and inscrutable change. Read More

MELBOURNE, Australia — An American influencer left Australia on Friday after the government announced it was reviewing her visa over a video she posted of her snatching a baby wombat from its mother. Read More

OTTAWA — With the swipe of a sharpie, Prime Minister Mark Carney reduced the price of the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, meaning Canadians will no longer be paying it on fuels. In doing so, he also neutralized one of the Liberals’ most unpopular policies before a widely expected election call. Read More

OTTAWA — Newly sworn-in Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet may only be around for a short time before an election is called, but he has made some intriguing changes to his ministers' responsibilities.  Read More

LONDON — John Lennon is being honoured in a specially minted British coin collection to mark the year the Beatles great and peace advocate would have turned 85, the Royal Mint said Friday. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump discussed his plans for Greenland and Canada — both members of NATO — alongside Mark Rutte, former president of The Netherlands and current NATO Secretary-General, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. Read More

Mark Carney is officially Canada’s 24th prime minister. About an hour after Justin Trudeau officially resigned on Friday, Carney's first cabinet was sworn in alongside him at a ceremony at Rideau Hall. The new Liberal government has 24 ministers — 13 men and 11 women, including Carney — and no deputy prime minister. It maintains Trudeau's core team that has been dealing with the trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump, but drops 18 members of the former prime minister's cabinet. Read More

Canadians here and abroad are showing their "Elbows Up" in an ongoing outpouring of national defiance in the face of threats coming from the Donald Trump administration. Read More

OTTAWA -- The Ontario man accused of stealing an iconic portrait of former British prime minister Winston Churchill from Ottawa's Chateau Laurier hotel has pleaded guilty. Read More

On Wednesday, the independent, non-partisan Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) once again riled up the federal government by doing its job. The PBO warned in a report that the federal emissions cap proposed last year would sacrifice economic growth and could kill over 40,000 jobs by 2032. Read More

British Columbia's government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the "human-caused disaster" coming in like a freight train from the United States. Read More

The engine of an American Airlines airplane burst into flames after landing at Denver International Airport on Thursday evening. A dozen people suffered from minor injuries. Read More

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Our cookbook of the week is Anna Haugh's Irish Kitchen by Anna Haugh, head chef and owner of Myrtle Restaurant in London, England. 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

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially resigned Friday morning during a private meeting with Governor General Mary Simon. He also recommended that she ask the new Liberal Leader Mark Carney, to form the new government. Read More

The event’s organizers openly state that "Palestine resists; Zionism ceases to exist" — a blatant call for the eradication of Israel and, by extension, the Jewish people’s national homeland. According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which Canada has adopted, denying Israel’s right to exist is inherently antisemitic. Read More

OTTAWA - Danielle Smith and Nimâ Machouf have very little in common. In fact, they may only share one thing: their dislike for federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Read More

OTTAWA -- Immigration Minister Marc Miller is giving "lost Canadians" a chance to receive Canadian citizenship, while a judge has said there's not enough evidence on how this interim citizenship program will work to back the government's request for an extension to a deadline to pass new legislation. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday that a meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has lowered the temperature on the ongoing trade war launched by U.S. President Donald Trump last month. Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he agrees in principle with a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but he emphasized that the terms are yet to be worked out and added that any truce should pave the way to lasting peace. Read More

Donald Trump’s choice for ambassador to Canada affirmed that country’s status as a sovereign nation and hinted the president’s complex relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might have played a role in his calls to annex it into the U.S. Read More