OTTAWA — Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Read More

OTTAWA — Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the outspoken head of the Royal Canadian Navy, has been promoted to the military's second-in-command. Read More

OTTAWA — The Ontario government has launched a new offensive for Toronto to become the host city for the future Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) headquarters — and a new booklet to support its bid is throwing a bit of shade to Montreal in the process. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, a former federal environment minister, remained evasive about his political future after starkly criticizing his government’s new proposal to speed up Canada’s regulatory process for major projects. Read More

GATINEAU, QUE. — Quebec’s Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime says he is hoping to make history in this fall's provincial election. Read More

Caroline Elliott is an articulate, policy-driven candidate promising to lead — and unite — B.C. Conservatives at a moment when voters are fed up with Premier David Eby’s NDP government. Read More

In his timely new book The Republic of Alberta: An Idea That Won’t Go Away (out now with Sutherland House), journalist Tyler Dawson examines the long history and renewed force of Alberta separatism, and traces how a province that remains overwhelmingly Canadian has nonetheless developed a deep and durable sense of alienation from Ottawa, and the rest of the country. In this exclusive excerpt, Dawson reveals the political tensions that followed the 2025 federal election and explores why, for many

In 1904, as part of Canada’s campaign to populate the prairies, then-premier of the Northwest Territories Sir Frederick Haultain proposed establishing a new western province called Buffalo, comprising all of modern day Alberta and Saskatchewan. Read More