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 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

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OTTAWA — With one foot out the door, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking one of his ministers to help develop a plan for a new official residence to replace the vacant 24 Sussex. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages from France and elsewhere in the European Union, the latest escalation in a brewing transatlantic trade war. Read More

Ukraine’s newly-announced openness to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, along with the United States’ immediate resumption of military and intelligence support for Kyiv, is undoubtedly a victory for the West. Not only has Ukraine proven to its allies that it is serious about ending the war, Russia’s resistance to a reasonable truce underlines, yet again, its status as a predatory aggressor. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday she's focused on working with Canada's peers to address global challenges as she welcomes her counterparts from the U.S., Europe and Japan to Quebec. Read More

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration Wednesday from enforcing portions of an Executive Order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia. Read More

Mark Carney, as the new Liberal leader and prime minister-designate, had the opportunity this week to reset relations with Israel, to approach the Middle East dilemma with a less blinkered view and to take a robust stand against antisemitism. Read More

Empire Co. Ltd.’s CEO says the grocer is seeing sales of products from the U.S. “rapidly dropping” as shoppers look to support the Canadian economy and avoid the potential effects of tariffs. Read More

Canadian officials are set to meet with the U.S. commerce secretary in Washington Thursday — days after a dust-up with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended with Ontario pausing its surcharge on electricity exports to the United States. Read More

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. have executed a settlement over a pair of class-action lawsuits related to an alleged industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread. Read More

(March 12, 2025 / JNS) -- Jesse Furman, a U.S. district judge in Manhattan, said on Wednesday that the government must allow Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers to speak to him privately on the phone and gave prosecutors and lawyers for the anti-Israel former Columbia University graduates until Friday to tell him in writing when they plan to file written arguments, the Associated Press reported. Read More

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President Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Wednesday for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House, where he added Ireland to the list of countries he says are taking advantage of the United States. Read More

In one of history's little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump's annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president's family fortune more than 100 years ago. Read More

A Jewish advocacy group says it is an "abuse of process" that a former Carleton University professor convicted in the 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue has not been extradited to France. Read More

A new poll suggests that 40 per cent of Canadians are worried about losing their jobs as many businesses scale back hiring plans in response to the trade war with the United States. 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

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest that new Liberal leader (and our next prime minister) Mark Carney may be hiding. But I’m far more concerned about the one out in the open: Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021. Read More

Canada faces a seismic shift in world affairs where the U.S., under Donald Trump, is no longer a reliable alliance or trade partner, prompting disarray in the West and posing an existential threat to Canada’s well-being. Stock markets have plunged, inflation is ticking up, and consumer confidence is sagging in the U.S. There is even talk of recession — not the change Trump promised for America. Read More

Jon Watson has about 16,000 cases of wine sitting in an Alberta warehouse. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to have an impact on the economy, and he’s certainly living up to his promises. With a double whammy of high tariffs and uncertainty about the administration’s policies and intentions, the Trump administration is hammering trade relations between the U.S. and its neighbours to the north and south, as well as across the world. Recently imposed 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum are bound to make everybody a little poorer. The only good that could possibly come out of it is a reminder that we all benefit from free trade, even if it’s unilateral. Read More

Dr. Chris Loreto, an emergency room physician at the Timmins and District Hospital in Timmins, Ont., had an "aha" moment while helping a man who was suffering from a massive heart attack. It turned out the doctor had the same condition as the patient. Read More

Despite the federal government’s pledge to decrease immigration targets in the coming years, most Canadians still feel too many newcomers are arriving, a new national poll has found. Read More

OTTAWA — Jason Kenney says he felt compelled to return to his mostly dormant X account this month, after he got tired of seeing U.S. President Donald Trump denigrate both Canada and the bedrock conservative principles he's spent most of his adult life defending. Read More

LA MALBAIE, QUE. -- Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is welcoming her counterparts from some of the world's most powerful countries to Quebec this week, as Ottawa works to maintain unity between Washington and its Group of Seven partners and pushes back on U.S. tariffs. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine -- U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States. Read More

Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s prime minister on Friday and there’s now a massive test that awaits him. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc suggested Wednesday they want to come out of a meeting with a top U.S. official with a “coherent plan” for the tariff road ahead. Read More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's last day as prime minister will be Thursday as Mark Carney and a new cabinet will be sworn in by Governor General Mary Simon on Friday morning. Read More