MONTREAL — The Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois spent the campaign battling to win the hearts of Quebecers in a province where fear of U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to have pushed voters toward the Liberals. Read More

A judge is ordering the duty-free shop at Canada's second-busiest border crossing into receivership as it struggles to pay off millions of dollars in debt and overdue rent. Read More

VANCOUVER — Richard Le sent a text to his 16-year-old son on Saturday at about 8 p.m., saying he and the teen’s stepmother and little sister would soon leave the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre began election day confronting the issue that most stands in his way to achieving his years-long quest to become prime minister: U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

Polls don’t win elections, voters do. Read More

PARIS — A trial began Monday in Paris over the 2016 heist in which armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian in her bedroom and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry during Fashion Week. Read More

Millions of Canadians have cast their ballots in the federal election today. Polls have already closed in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotiat and New Brunswick, and results are starting to flow in.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are vying to be the next prime minister. There are 343 seats up for grabs and the winner will need at least 172 seats to form a majority government. Follow our live coverage, below, featuring National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, columnists Terry Newman, Jamie Sarkonak and Jesse Klein and the National Post digital team. Can't see the live blog? View it on nationalpost.com. Read More

It's election day in Canada. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are vying to be the next prime minister of Canada. Read More

Among the grand old men and women of world politics, Paul Biya stands out as a record holder, the oldest serving state leader at age 92, and president of Cameroon since 1982. Read More

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine on May 8-10 to mark the World War II Victory Day, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration decides whether a deal to end the more than three-year war is within reach. Read More

A young woman felt she had no choice but to go along with what a group of hockey players told her to do inside a London, Ont., hotel room nearly seven years ago, prosecutors told an Ontario court Monday as the players’ sexual assault trial began. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberals are holding their breath awaiting the results of an election that could give their party what they could only dream of mere weeks ago: a majority fourth term. Read More

OTTAWA — Millions of Canadians are expected to cast a ballot today, capping a 36-day election campaign dominated by threats of annexation and tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump and affordability concerns. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Canadians on election day was simple: elect a leader who will surrender Canada’s sovereignty and allow it to become the 51st state. Read More

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.  Read More

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. Read More

A convicted murderer who kept his victim's severed head in a bucket claims prison authorities in British Columbia are wrongfully withholding books he has acquired during his life sentence, including Hitler's "Mein Kampf." 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

Today is election day in Canada. A new federal government will be chosen, but none of the party leaders fought the election he expected. Read More

As the sprint of the shortest election period allowed under Canadian law nears the finish line, one aspect of the campaign that has stood out is the central role that international law has played in political messaging. The unsubstantiated claim that Israel is committing genocide while fighting against Hamas has surfaced several times. Read More

Canadians are heading to the polls today, Monday, April 28, for the 2025 federal election. Whether you're voting for the first time or just need a refresher, here’s a guide to help you cast your ballot. Read More

The Liberals are selling a new green-energy fiction in their 2025 platform — an East-West electricity grid — that will, no doubt, require them to impose additional disproportionate economic and social costs for a limited decrease in Canada's contribution to global emissions. This is a problem, given Canada's "lost decade" of growth and the Liberals' failure to admit policy mistakes over the last ten years. Read More

OTTAWA — In late March, Liberal Leader Mark Carney set foot for the first time in his Ottawa-area riding’s campaign office and began his speech to volunteers with a stark declaration: “This election is the most important election of our lifetime”. Read More

President Donald Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor's practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer's legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons. Read More

A car-ramming Saturday at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver that killed at least 11 people marks Canada's fourth attack in seven years in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. Read More

QUEBEC CITY — As Canadians from coast to coast mourned the loss of at least 11 lives in a car attack in Vancouver Sunday morning, Bloc Québécois candidates awaited their leader's visit with singing and dancing in a festive atmosphere. Read More

Shock and grief rippled through Canada’s Filipino community on Sunday as members struggled to come to grips with an attack at a cultural street festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people and injured dozens more. Read More

New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that U.S. statements about the mineral-rich Arctic island have been disrespectful and that Greenland "will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone." Read More

Former cabinet minister, pro football player and business owner Obby Khan was elected leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservative party Saturday in a very tight two-way race that came down to several decimal points. Read More

Canada's trade war with the U.S. has had a swift impact on grocery stores, with companies putting up maple leaf tags on shelves, shifting their product mix and highlighting local items. Read More

Islamism — defined most benignly as “the belief that Islam should influence political systems”— is, according to Joe Adam George, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s National Security Analyst, the “biggest existential threat to Canada within its borders.” Yet, in the English-language leaders’ election debate, when Bloc Québécois leader François Blanchet dangled the word “Islamism” for discussion, nobody took the bait. Read More

HAMILTON — Elections are like games of chess — extended exercises in emotion and reason aimed at persuading millions of people to vote for you, and not for your rival. Read More

Rallies were cancelled, itineraries were rewritten, impromptu stops were made and the energy of some — but not all — campaigns was tempered on the final day of the campaigning that was rocked by tragedy in Vancouver. Read More

Canola runs deep on Margaret Rigetti's farm in southern Saskatchewan. Read More

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Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, is banking on people’s fears about the desperate nature of our present situation. And he’s promising to save Canadians from the apocalypse heading our way, triggered, not by climate change, but by Donald Trump’s up-ending of world order. Read More

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