It advocated a "unite-the-right" movement to create a viable alternative to the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien, and supported the Canadian Alliance.

Politically, the Post has retained a conservative editorial stance, although the Asper family has long been a strong supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada.

The Aspers had controversially dismissed the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, Russell Mills, for calling for the resignation of Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien.

Guided by Gayle Grin, the Post's managing editor of design and graphics, the redesign features a standardization in the size of typeface and the number of typefaces used, cleaner font for charts and graphs, and the move of the nameplate banner from the top to the left side of Page 1 as well as each section's front page.

[citation needed] In 2009, the paper announced that as a temporary cost-cutting measure, it would not print a Monday edition from July to September 2009.

[14] Late on October 29, 2009, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sarah Pepall ruled in Canwest's favour and allowed the paper to move into a holding company.

[15] Investment bankers hired by Canwest received no offers when they tried to sell the National Post earlier that year.

The first article by columnist Chris Selley introduced the claim that this film showed the human face of the Russians and was therefore banned.

[citation needed] The National Post's main office is at 365 Bloor Street East in Toronto, Ontario.

[28][29] On May 19, 2006, the newspaper ran two pieces alleging that the Iranian parliament had passed a law requiring religious minorities to wear special identifying badges.

Comments on the story by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused Iran to summon Canada's ambassador to Tehran, Gordon E. Venner, for an explanation.

On May 24, 2006, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Doug Kelly, published an apology for the story on page 2, admitting that it was false and the National Post had not exercised enough caution or checked enough sources.

[30] From 1998 to 2014, the now defunct Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) had been actively monitoring media coverage for anti-Muslim or anti-Islam sentiment and had issued reports highlighting its findings.

[35] The advocacy group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East has accused the Post of pro-Israel bias for publishing articles from the Jewish News Syndicate which it describes as "a mouthpiece for the Israeli military".

[37] On September 24, 2011, the newspaper ran an advertisement paid for by the Institute for Canadian Values (ICV) which was hosted by Canada Christian College.

The advertisement argued against the teaching of LGBTQ-related sex education topics in the Ontario school curriculum, and was criticized for alleged discrimination against transsexual, transgender, intersex, and two-spirited people.