As Canada stares down economic uncertainty and various threats to our prosperity, a new National Post analysis reveals that our starting position is much weaker than it otherwise could have been. In his new piece, The 13 Charts That Prove the Lost Liberal Decade, deputy comment editor Jesse Kline lays out the data that reveals stagnant per capita GDP growth, declining living standards, an affordability crisis, expanding government and an erosion in social cohesion. Read More

Modern Canadian budgets have become little more than an opportunity for the government to sell Canadians on how great a job it's doing. But the Carney Liberals' spring economic update, which was tabled on Tuesday, is so gravity-defying, it might as well have been lifted from a "Star Trek" script. Read More

The Carney government's recent announcement that it will be setting up a sovereign wealth fund to "invest in strategic Canadian projects" and ensure the returns "are shared with Canadians" lifts the veil on the prime minister's apparent belief that there's nothing the private sector does that Ottawa can't do better. Read More

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As the Liberals prepare to table their economic update next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney's banker buddies are stepping in to defend his government's high-spending ways. Read More

April is tax month in the United States, when taxpayers must file paperwork and settle accounts with the Internal Revenue Service and its state-level counterparts. This is not, to put it mildly, a popular annual occurrence. Read More

Despite the 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon announced by U.S. President Donald Trump midday on Thursday, it's unlikely that Hezbollah will give up its war against the Jewish state unless it's forced to submit — something the Lebanese government is incapable of doing and the international community is unwilling to. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled off of a political coup when his party won three byelections on Monday after enticing five members of the opposition parties to cross the floor, thus turning a minority into a majority government for the first time in Canadian history. But to suggest, as many Liberals are, that he has formed some sort of "unity government" is patently ridiculous. Read More

Some western conservatives are upset that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in a landslide election last weekend. This is silly: Orban was a rotten leader, and his centre-right successor, Peter Magyar, represents a superior model of conservative governance. Read More