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

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

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

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a farewell message to Canadians Thursday as he marked his last full day in office. Read More

“'Buy Canada' pressure builds on US$1.6 trillion in pension pot,” was the chilling headline to a Bloomberg News article this week, detailing the push to demand our public pension plans invest more in Canadian projects simply because they’re Canadian. That’s not a new argument by any means, and it doesn’t spell certain doom. Quebec’s Caisse de Dépôt has a mandate to invest in Quebec, and in the long term its returns reliably beat the “benchmark portfolio” — i.e., an index fund. (That said, in 2024 the Caisse lost more than $10 billion relative to that benchmark portfolio.) Read More

Los Angeles was still under assault from wildfires the week that an eagerly awaited new thriller from Robert Crais saw publication. The Big Empty was the 20th novel featuring the exploits of wisecracking L.A. private eye Elvis Cole and his formidable but introspective partner Joe Pike — but there would be no big sendoff, no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically. Read More

As part of his economic plan for change, Mark Carney said his government will develop “ports, supply chains and new trade corridors” to help diversify Canada’s export markets. Read More

It’s heartening that Canadians across the spectrum have summoned from themselves a stout pride in their country and a like-minded fury about the mania for trade-relations vandalism and sabotage that has gripped the degenerate belligerent in the White House. Necessarily throwing ourselves into a federal election in the middle of the crippling trade war Donald Trump has decided to wage against us is just whatever the opposite of serendipity is. Read More

OTTAWA — The office of Canada's independent Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) took the unusual step of putting out a factual update on Thursday, after critics, including Liberal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, questioned the findings of a PBO analysis linking the proposed federal emissions cap to deep job losses. Read More

The next instalment in a series of United Nations climate change conferences will be COP30, taking place in Bélem, Brazil, in November. The city of 1.3 million people, known as the gateway to the Amazon River, is building a new central square that includes a metal walkway with a lookout, kiosks, rain gardens, a picnic area, an event space, a pet space, a playground and an outdoor gym. Read More

A British politician is showing his support for Canada — not only by speaking up in the House of Commons, but also by enjoying a Canadian dish — amid growing tension between the Commonwealth country and the United States. Read More

OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault is expected to be shuffled out of his post as minister of environment and climate change Friday as prime minister-designate Mark Carney attempts to make a clear break with the Trudeau era. Read More