Wednesday evening’s French-language leaders' debate kicked off with a video montage that mentioned President Donald Trump roughly 175 times. (I exaggerate somewhat.) Thursday evening’s English-language leaders’ debate was much less focused specifically on Trump, to an almost bizarre extent. When moderator Steve Paikin offered each leader a chance to ask a question of an opponent, Liberal Leader Mark Carney chose to ask Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about the security-clearance drama. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Danube: Recipes and Stories from Eastern Europe by Irina Georgescu, a Wales-based, Romanian-born food writer. Read More

Sex and garlic and the blues. That’s Sinners in a nutshell. It’s also about the only thing in this big-budget production from writer/director Ryan Coogler that would fit in one. This movie is loud and proud, big and brash. Read More

Concern over Iran’s nuclear program goes back almost to the turn of the century. In many ways, it’s the issue that never goes away and never gets resolved. Read More

Shortly after 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, before the English Leaders Debate in Montreal ended, word began to spread on X that the media scrum that was to immediately follow the debate was cancelled. The reason given to reporters by the Leaders' Debate Commission's Executive Director Michel Cormier: "We don't feel that we can actually guarantee a proper environment for this activity." This did not please members of the press. One could be heard shouting out: "Why? This is an infringement of the liberty of the press. This is your one job!" Read More

Anthony Housefather is a Montreal Liberal MP of unusually courageous and actually-liberal character. A couple of days ago he issued an electioneering tweet about the Conservative proposal to invoke the Charter of Rights’ notwithstanding clause in order to legislate unconditional life sentences for multiple murderers: Read More

There is no doubt as to who won Thursday night’s English-language debate. That achievement went to Pierre Poilievre, who, while delivering a coherent message about his own hopeful vision for a future, more prosperous Canada, ran circles around a sluggish Mark Carney and deflected the volley of Jagmeet Singh’s pea-gravel-sized interruptions. Read More

U.S. airstrikes targeting the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed 38 people and wounded at least 50 others, the group said. Read More

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing you did mattered? Read More

OTTAWA — In a surprise move, the Leaders’ Debates Commission abruptly cancelled the media availabilities that were set to happen with each leader after the English-language debate. Read More

After the smell of smoke was detected, an Air Canada flight from Las Vegas to Toronto was diverted to Des Moines International Airport on Thursday. Read More

In the wake of Wednesday’s French leaders’ debate, press accounts have covered most of the main beats, such as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asking Liberal Leader Mark Carney if he was “embarrassed” to request a fourth term, and Carney defending the Liberal record by saying, “I just got here.” Read More

“I don’t even know these women,” Frank Stronach told a small entourage of supporters this week after facing complainants accusing him of sex crimes for the first time in court. Speaking during a break in a preliminary hearing that examined two of the most serious charges he faces, the 92-year-old billionaire stopped talking after being told journalists were within earshot. Read More

The leaders of Canada’s major federal parties faced off Thursday night in the second, and final, nationally televised debate of the election campaign. The English-language debate took place just 24 hours after the leaders battled each other in the French-language debate. The National Post has video of the debate, below. Review our live coverage from National Post reporters Catherine Lévesque, Christopher Nardi, and Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson in our live blog, below. Can’t see the blog? View it on the National Post. Read More

A gunman opened fire Thursday at Florida State University, killing two people and wounded at least five others, police said. The 20-year-old gunman was the son of a sheriff’s deputy whose former service weapon was used in the shooting, authorities said. Read More

MONTREAL — Liberal Leader Marc Carney took shots from the left, right and the Bloc Québécois during an often heated, sometimes droll English-language debate Thursday. Read More

Unable to partake in the federal leaders’ debates this week, Maxime Bernier found a different medium to attack his opponents and push the People's Party of Canada’s platform: The Tucker Carlson Show. Read More

KINGSTON — Kingston police say a person who allegedly threatened staff at a local hotel is now facing multiple charges after a whole rotisserie chicken stuffed with illicit drugs was found in their belongings. Read More

TORONTO -- Hudson's Bay will seek court approval to put the royal charter that launched the company 355 years ago on the auction block, along with its trove of art and historical artifacts. Read More

Canadian universities are receiving increased interest from prospective American students in the midst of federal cuts to U.S. institutions and revocations of foreign student visas. Read More

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, as cardinals were designated to take his place presiding over the most important liturgical services leading up to Easter. Read More

Since Mark Carney became Prime Minister on March 9, the Liberals have been leading in most opinion polls. The reason for this significant shift was fear, anger and revulsion about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. This, in turn, was combined with an unfounded belief that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was Trump’s Canadian equivalent, in spite of the fact the two leaders have vastly different political and ideological beliefs. Read More

An ocean-covered world bristling with life is the best fit for observations made of a planet 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, a new paper says. Read More

Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company’s business. Read More

An Ontario judge has more than doubled the "unhinged" recommended sentence for a man whose string of crimes includes trying to disarm a police officer. Read More

In 2019, Danielle Smith was a Calgary broadcaster with a talent for reflecting Albertans' anger back at her audience. Read More

OTTAWA — Strawberries became an unexpected topic at Wednesday night's French debate in Montreal, with three of the four party leaders saying they've stopped buying American berries amidst trade tensions. Read More

OTTAWA — What is going on with the polls this federal election campaign? Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter that throughout the 2025 election will be a daily digest of campaign goings-on, 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

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre landed a few pretty solid blows against Liberal leader Mark Carney during the French-language debate in Montreal on Wednesday night. Whether those blows will matter to Quebecers, who will have comprised the vast majority of the audience for the debate, it would be foolish to prognosticate. Read More

As Canadians are set to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Thursday, Pierre Poilievre promised this week that his government would invoke a never-before-used section at the federal level to keep mass murderers in prison until death. Read More

The worst of Canada’s academics are allergic to the thought of locking violent criminals up for any length of time, which is why they began to foam at the mouth when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced his plan to give escalating sentences to repeat offenders in the form of a three-strikes law. Read More

On Monday, during a campaign stop in Montreal, Pierre Poilievre had the audacity to suggest that his government would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court decision that ruled that consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers was "cruel and unusual punishment" and violated the murderer's human dignity. For most reasonable Canadians, this is a no-brainer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, however, rushed to condemn the move as "dangerous," while CBC's Power and Politics host David Cochrane and his panel guest Rob Russo suggested it was a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. But the problem of light murder sentencing does exist, and not just for mass murderers. Read More

Wednesday night's French-language leaders’ debate in Montreal didn’t produce any knockout punches — but if you were scoring on points, Liberal Leader Mark Carney came out on top. And he did it the old-fashioned way: by letting his opponents beat each other up.  Read More

China wants to see a number of steps from President Donald Trump’s administration before it will agree to trade talks, including showing more respect by reining in disparaging remarks by members of his cabinet, according to a person familiar with the Chinese government’s thinking. Read More

OTTAWA — The microphone was cut only once during the French-language debate on Wednesday night, and it was to stop NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh from speaking. Read More

Hamas has rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal that would have required it to disarm, according to a report on Tuesday. Read More

Police have identified the suspect in a hit-and-run that injured four people on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus Tuesday, saying he is still at large and considered dangerous. Read More

On April 15, 1945, the Royal Canadian Dragoons (RCD) liberated the city of Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Read More

The Ontario government's bid to remove three major Toronto bike lanes is "irrational and dangerous," and should be ruled unconstitutional, a lawyer for a group of cyclists argued in court Wednesday. Read More

Second in a series of profiles of the major party leaders. Read More

The leaders of Canada’s major federal parties met Wednesday for the first nationally televised debate of the 2025 election campaign. The French-language debate was a key opportunity to win over francophone voters. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet took to the stage in Montreal in an attempt to win over undecided voters before Canadians cast their ballots on April 28. With polls showing a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives, the NDP and the Bloc were battling to put their parties back on the national agenda. Carney was attacked from all sides but avoided a gaffe. Review the live coverage from National Post reporters Catherine Lévesque, Antoine Trépanier, Christopher Nardi, and Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson in our live blog, below, or watch the full video of the debate. Can’t see the blog? View it on the National Post. Read More

MONTREAL — Striking day-care workers gave local NDP candidates a noisy welcome when they showed up with coffee and doughnuts at a picket line on a chilly Wednesday morning. Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex. Read More

Canadians may never know the extent of mould-related health problems plaguing some who served aboard Royal Canadian Navy frigates as Veterans Affairs is not tracking the problem and legal action that aimed to shed light on the issue has been denied. Read More

In determining what differentiates a good day from a typical one, University of British Columbia psychology research has discovered that we don’t like to work more than six hours a day. Read More

So much for Ontario Premier Doug Ford staying out of the federal election. Ford’s catty condemnation of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign was unhelpful not just to Poilievre, but to Conservatives generally — and even to Ford himself. Read More

If elected, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has now confirmed that he would invoke Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the notwithstanding clause or the Parliamentary supremacy clause, to ensure that multiple murderers remain ineligible for parole. Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war. Read More

MONTREAL — Leaders of the Conservative party, Bloc Québécois and NDP will be trying to steal Francophones' support from the Liberals tonight during the election campaign's only French-language debate. Read More

The Leaders’ Debates Commission clawed back some basic semblance of self-respect on Wednesday morning when it disinvited the Green Party from this evening’s French-language debate and tomorrow’s English-language follow-up. The party has only nominated 232 candidates across the country, or 69 per cent of the total number of ridings, whereas one of the three rules for a party’s inclusion (you need to satisfy two) demands that, “28 days before the date of the general election, the party has endorsed candidates in at least 90 per cent of federal ridings.” Read More

California's governor is trying to drum up more Canadian tourism to his state by distancing himself from U.S. President Donald Trump. And he's doing that literally, reminding Canadians how far from Washington his state is. Read More

OTTAWA — A new Postmedia-Leger poll reveals that support for Quebec sovereignty, which had fallen below 30 per cent due to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to annex Canada, is back. Read More

BERLIN (AP) -- A doctor in Berlin has been charged with murder over the deaths of 15 patients under palliative care, prosecutors said Wednesday. He is also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes. Read More

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Several women's groups that supported the appeal celebrated outside court and hailed it as a major victory in their effort to protect spaces designated for women. Read More

OTTAWA — The Leaders' Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders' debates. Read More

OTTAWA — The committee overseeing the federal leaders' debates has disinvited the Green party from the proceedings in a surprise last-minute ruling. Read More

The "Buy Canadian" movement continues to grow as Donald Trump’s trade war escalates. According to a survey of more than 9,700 Canadians conducted by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) in late March, nearly two-thirds are willing to pay five to 10 per cent more for homegrown dairy, meat or produce. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter that throughout the 2025 election will be a daily digest of campaign goings-on, 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 — The election is playing out as a story of hopeful Conservative voters versus fearful Liberal voters, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

A large-scale study of CT scans performed in the United States has estimated that the widely used medical technology could lead to more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the lives of patients. Read More

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has the future of his party's campaign on his shoulders with two debates that the Bloc hopes will boost his popularity. Read More

OTTAWA — A former British Columbia provincial cabinet minister whose candidacy the federal Conservatives rejected is now threatening the party's chances of recapturing a historically safe seat. Read More

OTTAWA — No matter where Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff plans land in the coming days, economists and other trade specialists warn that Canada’s efforts to diversify from the United States market will be overwhelmed by the “gravitational pull” from our southern neighbour. Read More

The driver of a vehicle that struck several pedestrians on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus may have been targeting a specific individual on the walkway before speeding away from the scene, police said Tuesday. Read More

LOS ANGELES — Burglars tunneled through a concrete wall to gain access to a Los Angeles jewelry store, making off with at least US$10 million worth of watches, pendants, gold chains and other merchandise, police said. Read More