Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry have been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala, and were immediately sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Read More

VATICAN CITY -- So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter's Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, closing the basilica for just an hour and a half Thursday morning for cleaning. Read More

MONTREAL -- A Quebec Superior Court judge has overturned a university tuition hike for out-of-province students that the government introduced to reduce the number of English-speaking students in the province. Read More

AMSTERDAM — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the role the Dutch capital played in the persecution of its Jewish citizens during the Second World War, saying the government at the time “let its Jewish residents down terribly.” Read More

Ontario's top court has ruled the province must cover the cost of an out-of-country, penis-sparing vaginoplasty for a "transgender and non-binary resident" who wishes to have both female and male genitalia. Read More

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Mark Carney has led a charmed life since entering politics. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. — Days after Liberal Leader Mark Carney named China as Canada's biggest security threat, a video published by a Chinese-language media outlet shows one of his Liberal candidates calling China one of its "like-minded allies." Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump downplayed the steep drop in international tourists to the U.S. during a scrum with reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Read More

Pulling Canada into his trade war with China, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Chinese fentanyl continues to "pour" into the United States across both borders. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian leader to "STOP!" after a deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is admitting that U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to annex Canada to the United States during their call on March 28 despite claiming publicly at the time that Trump “respected Canada’s sovereignty.” Read More

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. Read More

The Ontario government this week took a welcome and long overdue step towards paying for the kind of post-secondary system the province needs to drive economic growth. Read More

Jagmeet Singh is urging people to vote NDP and calling it the only defence against a Liberal “supermajority.” It is a rather pathetic conclusion to Singh’s time as party leader, but par for the course when taking into account the entirety of his career in federal politics.   Read More

Public Health Ontario is reporting 95 new measles cases since last week, bringing the total number of people infected past 1,000. Read More

The 21-year-old international student who was killed by a stray bullet last week at a bus stop in Hamilton, Ont., had "zero capability of avoiding" it, police said as they continued their investigation into the shooting. Read More

Neither the NDP nor the Green Party of Canada are expected to form government after April 28, and now it's forecast that respective leaders Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May are in danger of losing their B.C. seats to a Liberal and a Conservative. Read More

Within a week of the U.K. Supreme Court issuing a landmark ruling confirming that women are female, the Conservative Party of Canada has taken a small, but long-overdue, step in the same direction. The newly released CPC platform announced it would repeal a federal policy that allows trans-identified men to be housed in women’s prisons and committed to ensuring that “women’s spaces and services remain protected in federal institutions and policy.” Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he'll do away with the Liberal electric vehicle mandate if he becomes prime minister after Monday's election. Read More

Russia pounded Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones Thursday, killing at least 12 people in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since July and drawing a rare rebuke of Moscow from U.S. President Donald Trump just as peace efforts were coming to a head. Read More

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The human mind really can go blank during consciousness, according to a new review that challenges the assumption people experience a constant flow of thoughts when awake. 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

MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered Air Canada to pay passengers more than $10 million in damages in a class-action lawsuit that alleged they charged more than the ticket price advertised. Read More

The Special Investigations Unit is investigating after a 30-year-old man was shot and killed by police at Toronto Pearson Airport on Thursday morning. Read More

Austrian businessman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe has been named interim chairman of the World Economic Forum, replacing Klaus Schwab, who is under investigation for allegations of financial and ethical misconduct. Read More

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Canada would "cease to exist" if it weren't for the United States — comments that came just days before Canadians are set to vote in an election dominated by Trump's remarks on the country's economy and sovereignty. Read More

Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015. Read More

Long before he entered politics, Mark Carney was a full-throated supporter of social engineering via progressive policy. His platform, released Monday, has confirmed that his government will be no different in that regard than that of Justin Trudeau. Read More

We’re told this is the most consequential election in our lifetime. It’s certainly among the most puzzling. Read More

As Canada prepares for a pivotal federal election on Monday, the stakes for the Jewish community — and for the future of Canada-Israel relations — have never been higher. This is not just another ballot. It is a litmus test for the country’s moral compass, a reckoning with the rising tide of antisemitism, and a defining moment for Canada’s role in supporting its democratic allies in the world, Israel among them. Read More

The petition I and others filed earlier this month asking the Supreme Court of British Columbia to require administrators representing the University of British Columbia to stop engaging in political activity has begun to generate discussion. Read More

OTTAWA — Partisan divides trump regional ones among Canadians, according to a new survey from Leger Marketing and the Association of Canadian Studies. Read More

HAMILTON, ONT. — An incumbent New Democrat says he hopes his party will begin the process of "soul searching" from within about "who who are" once the federal election ends. Read More

OTTAWA — As Canada’s two largest political parties spend the final few days of the federal election campaign fighting for power, Canada’s smaller parties enter the race’s final leg with arguably even more on the line — survival. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Ukraine's president, saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy is prolonging the "killing field" after pushing back on ceding Crimea to Russia as part of a potential peace plan. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that at some point the automobile tariffs slapped on Canadian imports could increase while also indicating his administration is working on a deal with Canada. Read More

VICTORIA — “Friends, pinkos and separatists, lend me your votes.” Read More

During a Tuesday press conference to unveil the Conservative election platform, Pierre Poilievre took a departure from the topic du jour, analyzing a report from an obscure government department that warned of the potential that many Canadians may "face the very real possibility of downward social mobility" by 2040. Read More