MONTREAL -- A high-speed rail link between Toronto and Quebec City could deliver billions of dollars in economic benefits, a new report says. Read More
The choice of Wayne Gretzky as honorary captain of Canada's hockey team in Thursday night's game against America has upset fans of the sport. Read More
Canadian hockey fans took to social media after Team Canada's victory over Team U.S.A. at the final game of the 4 Nations Face-Off on Thursday evening. By Friday morning, the term "Premier Trump" had been used nearly 15,000 times on X, and the term "11th Province" nearly 25,000 times. Read More
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston are reaching out to state governors in Washington, D.C. as the deadline to avert U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs inches closer. Read More
National Post’s Chris Selley and National Post contributor Anthony Furey discuss the latest in the 2025 Ontario election. Watch the video or read the transcript.Read More
STRATFORD, NEW JERSEY — The closest Canadian stronghold to Donald Trump’s Trade-War-A-Lago is a bright, spacious fortress with plenty of free parking in the suburbs of Philadelphia, 230 kilometres northeast of the Oval Office. It is a command centre and commissariat where the True North is revered, the current American president is reviled, annexation will be strenuously resisted, and a Maple Dip costs US$1.81, tax included. Read More
Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney has unveiled his new slogan, “Spend Less. Invest More.” By which Carney actually means, spend more — spend much more than Trudeau is spending now and probably even more than what Trudeau was intending to spend in the future. Read More
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney's new pitch for separate federal operating and capital budgets has some Albertans feeling a tinge of déjà vu, and not the warm and fuzzy sort.Read More
NEW YORK (AP) -- The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day manhunt is scheduled to be in court Friday for the first time since his December arraignment on state murder and terror charges. Read More
Maybe Donald Trump wants to take over Canada just so his country can finally win a hockey tournament again. And, of course, it was Connor McDavid who said: not yet. Read More
A 71-year-old Canadian man has been charged after allegedly flying a drone and taking aerial photography at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida. 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
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night ordered the military to conduct a “massive” counter-terrorism operation in Judea and Samaria, after three buses exploded near Tel Aviv and bombs were found on two others in what is being investigated as a coordinated attack. Read More
This week, John Ivison is joined by academic Thomas Juneau to update predictions he made on the show nearly 18 months ago about the dangers of a second Trump administration. Read More
A group of prominent Canadian historians is regrouping after the Toronto District School Board decided this week to move forward with removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from three of its schools. Read More
The push to buy local is going strong. With the 25-per-cent tariffs on pause until at least March 5, Canadians continue to rethink their purchases, sharing their favourite local brands on social media and developing apps to help identify them. Yet there’s a rub for those who want to support homegrown products and the companies that make them. Buying local isn’t always straightforward, and selling local has its own challenges. Read More
B.C. lawyer James Heller is suing his own law society for libel, accusing it of “bad faith, high-handedness, arrogance, malice” and betraying its ethical duties. Read More
Carbon offsets are unreliable, fraud-ridden financial tokens that often fail to make any environmental impact at all. And if Mark Carney gets his way, they’re going to be Canada’s next big industry. Read More
BOSTON -- Connor McDavid scored at 8:18 of overtime as Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in a riveting 4 Nations Face-Off final Thursday. Read More
The body that Israel redeemed from Hamas, which the terror organization said is Shiri Bibis, belongs to an unidentified person and not the 33-year-old mother of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning. Read More
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Thursday as Washington and Moscow talk about a possible end to Russia's war. Read More
OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc is endorsing Mark Carney to replace his childhood friend Justin Trudeau as prime minister and Liberal leader, saying the former Bank of Canada governor “has what it takes to steer a G7 economy through choppy waters.” Read More
KYIV, Ukraine — A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia. Read More
For more than 500 days, the Bibas family has been a symbol of hope and resilience in the face of the horrors of the Israel-Hamas War. At the time of their kidnapping by Hamas terrorists on October 7, Kfir was nearly nine months old, his brother Ariel was four, and their mother Shiri was 32. Read More
After U.S. President Donald Trump offered encouraging words to Team USA ahead of tonight’s 4 Nations Face-Off final against Team Canada, Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the game that’s transcended the hockey world into the political spectrum. Read More
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will be more focused on cheering team Canada than booing the U.S. national anthem when both countries’ hockey teams face off on the ice for the 4 Nations final game on Thursday evening. Read More
Donald Trump said this week that he intends to impose auto tariffs "in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent," with similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports. He said the auto tariffs could come as soon as April 2, one day after his cabinet is set to deliver reports outlining his options. Read More