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What to know about Service Canada’s 30-day money back passport application guarantee to kick in sometime in 2025


Here’s what we know about the travel policy that came into effect Mar. 9


Carney will have to decide if he will call an election instead of bringing back Parliament on March 24


He has never held elected office but the former back-up goalie and global banker from Fort Smith, N.W.T., is ready for his biggest challenge yet


National Post spoke with nearly 20 Liberals about how Carney can reconcile his political newcomer status with the demands of the campaign trail


‘My brothers and I have shared our dad with you for the past 12 years. Now we’re taking him back’


Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidate Mark Carney delivers a speech as he's introduced during the Liberal leadership announcement in Ottawa on Sunday, March 9, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

The

Liberal Party of Canada

announced that Mark Carney won the leadership race on the first ballot, with more than 131,000 votes cast, at around 6:30 p.m. E.T. In second place was former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who received a little over 11,000 votes. Karina Gould received just under 4,800 votes and Frank Baylis received 4,038 votes.

On Saturday, National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, and columnists Terry Newman and Jamie Sarkonak provided live analysis of the Liberal party event as Canada learned who its next prime minister would be.

View the live blog above

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Over 13 months, Kyle Drysdale contacted the victim for sex and drugs using text messages, phone calls and emails despite her ‘expressions of displeasure’


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