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“Lived a hero and died a hero,” York University student Somar Abuaziza wrote on Instagram following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last October. Read More

It’s official. In Ontario, the Progressive Conservatives are now the party of organized labour and workers. Read More

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If the murky clouds of Trumpian nihilism are dragging down your spirits, we have a quick little mood stabilizer for you: go to the website of the London Metals Exchange and gawp at the price chart for Platts’ index of the “Aluminum Premium Duty Paid US Midwest.” The hockey stick you’ll see there is a picture of President Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff tariff threats against Canada landing squarely on the skulls of middle American manufacturers and consumers. They are, as of Wednesday, paying US$400 (C$570) a tonne more for aluminum, most of it Canadian, than they did before Trump was elected. You would have to have a heart of stone, or perhaps cold gray rolled aluminum, not to laugh. Read More

Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives maintain a commanding lead over the Ontario Liberals, according to a new poll taken days before the provincial election. Read More

HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has followed through on his promise to introduce a bill aimed at reducing interprovincial trade barriers, in an effort to boost the economy amid tariff threats by the U.S. president. Read More

MONTREAL -- A new poll suggests that while former central banker Mark Carney is still the odds-on favourite to win the Liberal leadership, he isn't likely to win on the first ballot. Read More

OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Ottawa wants to deepen intelligence sharing with European partners, as longtime ally Washington diverges from Canada on issues like Ukraine. Read More

The contenders in the Liberal leadership race faced their second primetime test in two days with the English debate in Montreal on Tuesday. Read More

OTTAWA -- Canada's provincial governments have enough fiscal firepower to respond to looming U.S. tariffs without supersizing their debt burdens, a new report says. Read More

By some accounts, cancel culture and political correctness in general are on the wane after many years in the ascendency. Perhaps that explains in part how Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie has gotten away with keeping on a candidate whose cretinous pensées on social media seem like more than ample cause for defenestration. Read More

On reflecting on his failed Liberal leadership bid in 2006, Michael Ignatieff said being a front-runner candidate drained him of all conviction. “I could feel myself becoming less inspiring as every night went by,” he said in his memoir, Fire and Ashes. Read More

The federal government has purchased half a million vaccines designed to prevent H5N1 avian influenza — also known as “bird flu” — in humans. Read More

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's son Xavier Trudeau has released his debut track, entitled Til The Night's Done. Read More

With the Ontario election just days away, it’s fair to say that PC leader Doug Ford’s re-election plan has been a success. His goal was to get through the campaign with a minimum of public involvement, no expensive new promises, and no damaging mistakes. Read More

MONTREAL — Liberal leadership hopefuls will face off during a second debate — and the only one in English — on Tuesday night as they try to convince party members that they are best suited to take on both U.S. President Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was quick to second U.S. President Donald Trump's call to revive the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday. Read More

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Hamas has agreed “in principle” to bring forward the release of four hostage bodies scheduled to be returned to Israel on Thursday, an Israeli official told Channel 12 News on Tuesday. Read More

Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, has named a new archbishop for Vancouver. Read More

As a bilingual native Quebecer, I always dread French political debates where no one speaks the language fluently. But one must make these things tolerable, so Monday night, 8 p.m., my daughter and I settled in to play “Judge the French” at the Liberal leadership debate, which was also the only way to convince an apolitical teenager to watch. The verdict? Frank Baylis’ French was good, Karina Gould’s and Chrystia Freeland’s was fine, and Mark Carney’s was not. It was better in the press conference that followed, but during the main event, Carney tripped up, most notably when he said, “we agree with Hamas,” instead of “we agree about Hamas,” to the delight of Conservatives all over social media. Read More

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The mother of the teen now charged with attempted murder in Sunday’s daytime stabbing of a six-year-old boy near a bus stop in downtown Halifax says she’s “been trying desperately for years to get her the help she needs.” Read More

If a peace deal can somehow be brokered to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that the possibility of Canadian troops being deployed to maintain the truce “is on the table.” Read More

Hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to approve new decrees for possible saints and make some major governing decisions that suggest he is getting essential work done while remaining very much in charge. Read More

Google says it is "actively working to update labels" for Canadian parks after users pointed out that several provincial parks have been categorized as "state parks," which is the American term. Read More

A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, authorities said Tuesday. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump and his political allies have recently taken to smearing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator,” which is absurd. Zelenskyy’s governance over Ukraine has been in line with wartime democratic norms, and attempts to claim otherwise are based on distortions and falsehoods. Read More

Baby eels have become one of the most valuable fish species by weight. One kilogram of the tiny, slimy elvers can fetch as much as $5,000 in world markets. They are highly sought after in Asia and elsewhere, and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have essentially cornered the world’s market in them. 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

For many francophone Canadians, the Liberal leadership debate on Monday was the first opportunity to hear each candidate speak extensively and mostly unscripted in French. That was particularly true for Mark Carney, the race’s frontrunner whose ability to think and communicate quickly in French has gone largely untested in the public’s eye. 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

Mark Carney’s blueprint for revitalizing the economy, released as the Liberal leadership contest enters its final weeks, can’t help but disappoint voters hoping for a shift away from the high-spending, big-debt approach of the Trudeau years. Read More

The populist train sweeping through the West finally pulled into Germany — running, as ever, behind schedule. Until now, the country had resisted Europe’s rightward shift. Sunday’s election put an end to that: the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), often described as “far-right,” surged to become the Bundestag’s second-largest party after doubling its 2019 vote share. Still shunned by Germany’s political class, the AfD made the biggest gains, cementing itself as an electoral force the establishment can no longer ignore. Read More

After an Ontario real estate agent returning from a trip to India was caught with nearly 14 kilos of opium at Toronto's Pearson airport, he said he was duped by a family friend who had asked him to bring Indian sweets back to Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — The three top contenders to replace Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal party say they'll honour the departing prime minister's pledge to help bankroll a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City. Read More

Two Delta Air Lines flights were forced to land early on Saturday after fumes were detected within the cabins of the aircrafts. Read More

WASHINGTON — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Monday that Canada needs to send the message it will “fight back” after U.S. President Donald Trump said steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products are indeed coming next week. Read More