Late Thursday night and into Friday morning, Canadians under clear skies will be able to watch a lunar eclipse, as the moon gets covered by the shadow of the Earth and turns a dark, smoky reddish-brown for a little over an hour. Here's what to know about this celestial event, also known as a "blood moon" for its colour. Read More

High-stakes talks between senior delegations from Ukraine and the United States on how to end Kyiv's three-year war with Moscow opened in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hours after Russian air defenses shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over Russia. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll buy a new Tesla to support Elon Musk, after shares of the electric-car maker had their worst day in four years amid a growing backlash over Musk’s political allegiances. 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

Yesterday, Fox News columnist David Marcus published a short piece about the surprises that greeted him on a weekend visit to Calgary. The theme of the piece is: hey, these people are really angry about Trump’s trade war! Marcus half-expected Canada to be preoccupied with the Liberal Party leadership race and the imminent choice of a new prime minister — but all anybody wanted to talk about in the cozy confines of the James Joyce Pub in Calgary were feelings of betrayal and confusion toward the United States. Even the television news (“Imagine a country in which basically every news channel is MSNBC”) was all tariffs, all the time. Read More

March Break is here, and we, as Canadians, have a choice to make. We can continue pouring billions into the U.S. economy, or we can stand tall, redirect our spending, and reaffirm our commitment to our own economic strength and cultural heritage. Our Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture Industries (HSTCIs) aren’t just about making memories — they are a $210 billion economic powerhouse, fueling Canadian jobs, businesses, and communities. Read More

An Ontario town is considering bringing a statue of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald back out of storage after it was defaced in 2020 amid a heated debate over the legacy of Canada's first prime minister. Read More

Canadian opinion of the United States has fallen so far so fast that it is driving a historic "realignment" of which countries Canadians see as their main allies, a new survey suggests. Read More

The following has been excerpted from The Victim Cult: How the Grievance Culture is Wrecking Civilization, by Mark Milke Read More

Canada Did What?! is a Postmedia podcast that digs into the untold, surprising political stories of the last few decades with host Tristin Hopper. From the metric wars to Morgentaler, from the October Crisis to the abortion debate, we’re unpacking all the wildest political moments you might think you remember — and giving you the real story you never knew. We talk to the politicians, journalists and newsmakers who were right there when history happened. And we have a lot of fun doing it.  Read More

OTTAWA — U.S.-driven tariff chaos has lit a fire under Canada's political leaders to scrap long-lingering barriers to internal trade, but experts say powerful provincial Crown corporations could be one of the biggest obstacles to real progress. Read More

OTTAWA - A new French-language advertisement starring Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre begins uncharacteristically for a campaign ad, with Poilievre offering an admission that his style of politics can seem brusque at times, especially to Quebecers. Read More

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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A Ukrainian delegation set to meet with America's top diplomat in Saudi Arabia about ending the 3-year war with Russia will propose a ceasefire covering the Black Sea and long-range missile strikes, as well as the release of prisoners, two senior Ukrainian officials said Monday. Read More

Ontario has placed a surcharge of 25 per cent on electricity exported to the United States as of Monday, and the government says it could raise that amount even higher in response to further American escalation. Read More

An Ontario judge has slammed his colleagues for damaging the “institutional credibility” of the court system after they gave no prison time to a gunman at an infamous Toronto funeral shooting. Read More

OTTAWA — National Post Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson sits down with parliamentary reporter Christopher Nardi to discuss Mark Carney's election as Liberal leader and how betting markets can be used to predict Canadian politics. Read More

Service Canada expects to receive 5.74 million passport applications for 2024-25 and one way it plans to help deal with growing demand is with a money back guarantee: get your passport within 30 days or it's free. Read More

Mark Carney isn't even prime minister yet, and he is already debasing the highest office in the land by giving oxygen to conspiracy theories. During his speech after winning the Liberal leadership on Sunday, he all but accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of being a national security threat, nodding to baseless allegations that have fermented online for months. Read More

Canadians planning to travel to the United States may be affected by a new policy that would have them register if they are south of the border for more than 30 days. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday accused newly crowned Liberal Leader Mark Carney of trying to "distract" from how he spent his time before entering politics by focusing on U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

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As grocers increasingly highlight Canadian products amid a trade war with the U.S., Loblaw is rolling out new symbols alongside prices that include an indication that a product's price has been affected by retaliatory tariffs. Read More

On Sunday, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre both delivered near 30-minute speeches to their enthusiastic supporters, but they were remarkably different in content, presentation and passion. Read More

OTTAWA — A day into his new role, Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney has already managed to anger some Muslim voters and Liberal supporters by appointing former public safety minister Marco Mendicino as his chief of staff. Read More

A new House of Representatives bill introduced last week would ensure U.S. President Donald Trump — or any sitting president — from using federal funds for a military invasion of Canada. Read More

Canadians appeared to be abandoning road trips to the U.S. amid President Donald Trump’s sovereignty and economic threats to their country. Read More

Shock and awe followed by erratic moves is how Donald Trump is used to negotiating, as historian, businessman and Postmedia columnist Conrad Black (who occasionally speaks with the president) tells Brian this week. Trump is determined to end the era of other countries picking America’s pocket in myriad ways and is using tariffs to do it. Black says he gets the impression the Trump administration wants out of this Canadian trade war. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get back the free-trade world we had. So, he advises, Canada had better adapt to the dramatically changed economic and geopolitical reality and get a prime minister who can build our economy despite Trump (and Mark Carney isn’t it). (Recorded March 6, 2025) Read More

A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the American military off the coast of eastern England Monday, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. Read More

Saudi Arabia is to host talks on Tuesday between the United States and Ukraine in a new diplomatic push after an argument erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Feb. 28 visit to the White House. Read More

The Bank of Canada's interest rate announcement arrives on Wednesday in a cloud of uncertainty thanks to a shifting trade war with the United States. Read More

Late last month, a six-year-old boy waiting for a bus in Halifax was attacked and stabbed repeatedly in a completely random assault committed in broad daylight. The suspect, 19-year-old Elliott Chorny, was described by her own mother in a Facebook post as a “severely unwell person” whose family had tried for years to put her in treatment or custody in a bid “to try and protect the community.” Read More

When his victory was announced in a noisy convention hall in downtown Ottawa, Sunday night, Mark Carney slowly rose to his feet, turned to kiss his wife, and started hugging and shaking hands with Liberal party members all around him as music and cheers drowned all else out. Once the room quieted, he sat beaming up at one of his daughters, now on stage, as she gave the audience, and the country, a formal introduction to Canada’s next prime minister. Read More

As the chairman strode to the United Nations podium on Oct. 13, 1974 amidst applause, he must have marvelled at his good fortune. Only a few years prior he was persona non grata. Expelled from Jordan after King Hussein tired of the existential threat the charismatic revolutionary posed to the country and to Hussein’s own throne, the Palestinian leader found only a half-hearted welcome in other Arab capitals. From Riyadh to Cairo, no matter their publicly declared support, other Arab rulers had privately tired of his arrogant assumption they owed him for his frontline attacks against Israel and Jews. Read More

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On Sunday evening in Ottawa, the results of the Liberal leadership race were announced. To no one's surprise, Mark Carney won, receiving 85.9 per cent of the vote. But Carney didn't just win the party's leadership race, he won the highest seat in our government, without ever being elected by Canadians, not even as a member of Parliament. Read More

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OTTAWA — Mark Carney may have been crowned leader of the Liberal party by casting himself as a political outsider, but his skills as a politician need work, say some of his supporters. Read More

Moments before the new Liberal leader was announced on Sunday, former prime minister Jean Chretien took to the stage to reprimand U.S. President Donald Trump over tariffs and threats to Canada's sovereignty. Read More

You can imagine that former prime minister Stephen Harper might be shaking his head somewhere, watching his non-partisan appointee for Bank of Canada governor move in to take up his new role. And you can imagine that all prime ministers will do what they can to keep the same thing from ever happening again. Read More

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was elected leader of the Liberal party, and prime minister of Canada, at the Liberal Party's leadership convention with more than 85 per cent of the vote. Here is his victory speech in English, in full: Read More

We live in extraordinary geopolitical times. You could tell as much by watching the festivities Thursday evening, as the Liberals prepared to announce their new leader — who turned out to be Mark Carney, with a whopping 86 per cent of the first-ballot votes. The three others wasted $350,000 on entry fees for pretty much nothing, I’m afraid. Read More

Hundreds of people gathered on Parliament Hill for the "Elbows up, Canada" rally as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens economywide tariffs and making the country into the 51st state. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's daughter, sixteen-year-old Ella-Grace, introduced her father before his speech to Liberal party members on Sunday in what is likely to be his final speech in the job. Read More

Outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa before the final votes were announced. Read the full text of the speech in English below: Read More

A plane with five people on board crashed Sunday afternoon outside an airport in suburban Pennsylvania, officials said. Read More

Air Force fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near Donald Trump's Florida home Sunday, bringing the number of violations to more than 20 since the president took office on Jan. 20. Read More

The Liberal Party of Canada announced that Mark Carney won the leadership race on the first ballot, with more than 131,000 votes cast, at around 6:30 p.m. E.T. In second place was former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who received a little over 11,000 votes. Karina Gould received just under 4,800 votes and Frank Baylis received 4,038 votes. Read More

Israel will stop supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip, Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday. Read More

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaled he doesn’t expect a reprieve on 25 per cent tariffs for steel and aluminum imports scheduled to take effect on Wednesday. Read More

If Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race on Sunday, would he succeed Justin Trudeau as the first prime minister to be sworn in without first having been elected? Read More

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices, and isn't ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. Read More

An armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana was shot by U.S. Secret Service agents near the White House after a confrontation early Sunday, according to authorities. Read More

Donald Trump, the real estate developer turned commander in chief, is laying bare his style of diplomacy in the early weeks of his new term: It's a whole lot like a high-stakes business deal, and his No. 1 goal is to come out of the transaction on top. Read More

Canadian farmers could take a big hit from China's sudden retaliatory tariffs that take aim at canola, pork and other food commodities. Read More

Anyone following the on-again, off-again trade war between Canada and the U.S. will have seen potash mentioned among major Canadian exports to the U.S. subject to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. Read More

“We are in a time of war. It may not be a shooting war, but it's an economic war,” says Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s re-election campaign director. “It's a trade war, and those are as big a threat to your sovereignty as the other kind.” Read More

A Grande Prairie trucker who repeatedly extorted and harassed a prostitute to get free sex has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and a year's probation. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal party members will crown a new leader and prime minister on Sunday while the country finds itself embroiled in a trade war with its closest ally and neighbour. Read More

Daylight savings time will make Justin Trudeau’s last day as Liberal party leader an hour shorter; his desired tenure has been abbreviated by much more than that. Once upon a time it was sunny ways. A delayed sunset is a fitting end for a prime minister who lingered in the spotlight too long. Read More

The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.” Read More

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Tehran will not be bullied by the United States over its nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to the Iranians asking to negotiate a deal. Read More

The federal government has unveiled two major domestic shipbuilding contracts for new polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard to use in the Arctic. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she is “deeply troubled” by a mass shooting in the city’s east end that left 12 people injured, half of them with serious injuries. Read More

BEIJING — China has announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products in October. Read More

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky has spent most of his life as the one person every Canadian could agree upon. Read More

While eight in ten Canadian women believe it's "easier" for women today than for women of past generations, more than one quarter (27 per cent) regularly experience gender-based discrimination, finds a new poll marking International Women's Day. Read More

For months, the Canadian commentariat has been seized with Pierre Poilievre’s chances in a Donald Trump world. Would a second Trump presidency hurt the Conservative leader, because people would see him Poilievre as an unwanted Trump-ian figure? Or might it actually benefit Poilievre, as Canadians tested the Liberals’ pathetically lazy framing of him as “Maple MAGA” against what he actually says and does, and realized how very stupid that framing is? Read More

One June day in 1996, three years after he became prime minister, Jean Chrétien made his way to a recreation centre in Fort McMurray, now the gritty northern Alberta heart of the oil sector, sitting atop the world's third-largest oil reserves. Read More

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Mark Carney, heir to the Canadian throne, such as it is, is indeed wrestling with a difficult problem in his 2021 book Value(s)  — or even a difficult set of problems. The title indicates as much (or, more accurately, the presumptuous subtitle): “Building a Better World for All.” We should first note in evaluating the quality of Carney’s thought (as we should, given his desire and likely opportunity to lead our fair land), that this is a very difficult set of nuts to crack: “building,” “better,” and “for all,” and that success in such a venture is tantamount to the actions of a veritable world redeemer or saviour. The question that then arises should then clearly be “is Mr. Carney up to such a task?” Our initial position with regard to that question should be one of extreme doubt and skepticism, given that very few, if any, have ever demonstrated such truly awe-inspiring ability. Read More

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OTTAWA — All eyes will be on Mark Carney on Sunday as the Liberal Party of Canada announces who will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

Far be it from me to contradict our new De Facto Prime Minister at a time of national crisis, but why is Ontario Premier Doug Ford snivelling woundedly about polite Canadian demonstrations against the anthem of the United States? Honestly, it makes me want to buy a hockey ticket just for the opportunity to boo. Read More

Canada’s Arctic waters are particularly vulnerable to international trespassing for two major reasons. One: the ice is melting, opening up desirable lanes to the world. Two: Canada’s sovereignty over the region’s waterways is not respected on the global stage. We view the Northwest Passage as a Canadian seaway, while our neighbours — even the friendly ones, including the Bush and Obama administrations in the U.S. — view the passage as an international waterway. Read More

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Read More

The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote. Read More

An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster -- for the United States. Read More