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Conrad Black founded the National Post, which launched on the 27th of October, 1998. Black built the paper around the Financial Post, a Toronto-based financial newspaper that his company Hollinger Inc. had purchased from Sun Media in 1997.
The National Post is owned by the Postmedia Network, which is American-owned. Chatham Asset Management acquired a 66 percent stake in Postmedia in 2016.
On the 29th of October, 2009, CanWest Global announced the Post might close as soon as the following day. Ontario Superior Court Justice Sarah Pepall ruled that night in CanWest's favour, allowing the paper to move into a holding company and continue publishing.
On the 19th of May, 2006, the Post published a front-page story headlined "Iran Eyes Badges For Jews" alleging Iran had passed a law requiring religious minorities to wear identifying badges. The story proved to be false. Editor-in-chief Doug Kelly published an apology on page 2 on the 24th of May, 2006, acknowledging the paper had not checked enough sources.
A 2021 academic study of seventeen mainstream media outlets across five countries found the National Post performed worst on climate change coverage. The Post represented scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change only 70.83 percent of the time, and presented anthropogenic climate change as negligible 20 percent of the time.
Ken Whyte served as the National Post's first editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2003. Matthew Fraser succeeded him from 2003 to 2005, followed by Doug Kelly from 2005 to 2010.