First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...

It’s not always the unexpected that gets governments in trouble — often enough it’s their own bad judgement, poor timing or ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s born-again Liberals may have thought they’d erased Justin Trudeau from their history, but, in ...

The Carney family moved to Edmonton Alberta when he was six and cheered, as he still does, for the Edmonton Oilers. Now that is a Conservative. Whoever heard of a Liberal rooting for the oilfields, or ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney attended a pancake breakfast Saturday hosted by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, which ...