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

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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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Canada is tragically a nation in decline. For a number of years, the key economic and quality of life metrics have slowly but surely worsened. This has happened while comparable countries have done much better. And it's largely been a policy choice. We are not in accidental decline, but managed decline. Read More

Re: The two solitudes — boomers and everyone else — Geoff Russ, April 16; and The generational fault line that could shake up the federal election — Donna Kennedy-Glans, April 13 Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal candidate Nell Thomas has apologized for comments she has reportedly made on social media that have raised questions about her views about the keeping elderly people alive and whether women should be having children. Read More

OTTAWA — At age 91, Jean Chrétien is still on the road, campaigning for his party. Read More

Two of Canada’s most prominent business and former political leaders are urging the next government to make national unity a top priority. Read More

KING CITY, ONT. – With two days to go until polling day, Mark Carney was careful not to break into a victory lap. Read More

MONT-LAURIER, Que. – Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is taking criticism from all sides after declaring Canada “an artificial country.” Read More

VAL-D'OR, Que. - Yves-François Blanchet makes no bones that he wants Quebec to become a country, and he believes that sitting in a “foreign parliament” will help the cause. Read More

MARKHAM, Ont.— Lionel Loganathan says he has probably spoken more Tamil in the past two-and-half years than he has his entire life.  Read More

The most extraordinary aspect of the funeral Mass for Pope Francis was its astonishingly beautiful ordinariness. Read More

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes as pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed him at the basilica across town where he will be buried. Read More

Eric Trump is promoting a "Trump 2028" hat as part of a new merchandise rollout from the Trump Organization’s official online store. Retailing for $50, the hat features the slogan "Rewrite the Rules." Read More

Analysts don't see a whole lot of difference between the defence platforms of the two major parties vying to govern Canada. Read More

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Whatever happens on Monday, one thing is certain: both the New Democratic Party and its Green cousin are headed for collapse. Read More

In their comments upon the death of Pope Francis, both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre referred to the Holy Father’s visit to Canada in 2022 — the “penitential pilgrimage,” in his characterization, to offer an apology related to Indigenous residential schools. Read More

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Following Pope Francis's death, 135 cardinals from around the world will gather at the Vatican to elect a new leader for the Catholic Church. Candidates for becoming the new pope must be male and a baptized Catholic. Read More