Financial Post Paywall: How to Read Financial Post Articles for Free

The Financial Post is Canada's business daily, published as a section of the National Post and as its own site at financialpost.com. It is where Canadian readers go for markets, energy, banking and personal finance, and its columnists are widely quoted. It is also one of the more tightly gated parts of the Postmedia group: the best pieces are marked as premium and locked from the first view. This guide explains how that works and how to read a full story.

How the Financial Post paywall works

The Financial Post runs on the Postmedia platform, so it shares the metered paywall used by the National Post, the Toronto Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and the rest of the chain. Non-subscribers get a limited number of articles a month, counted in a browser cookie. On top of that, the Post flags a large share of its own reporting and analysis as subscriber-only, so a first-time visitor can hit the gate immediately on a feature or column.

Both gates are applied in the browser. The full text is delivered in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then hides it. A reader that fetches the page the way a crawler does receives the complete article.

Our tests on 29 September 2026 through Skip the Paywall:

• A 3,911-word Financial Post feature on Alberta's carbon-credit market loaded in full, all 119 paragraphs.
• A 1,531-word Financial Post investing story on a TSX gainer loaded in full, all 21 paragraphs.

Read a Financial Post article in full

• Copy the article link. Financial Post links look like financialpost.com/section/headline-slug.
• Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
• The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and body text.

One quirk shared with the National Post: Postmedia pages carry a lot of navigation and cookie-consent text, and on some stories a line or two of it appears at the top or bottom of the reader view. The article itself is complete.

What does not work

• Wire releases. The site carries a high volume of press releases from Business Wire, Globe Newswire and similar services under its PMN section. These are free everywhere and load fine, but they are not Post journalism.
• Market data pages. Quote pages and stock screens are tools rather than articles and are not available through the reader.

Other approaches

• Library access. Most Canadian public libraries offer the National Post, which includes the Financial Post section, through PressReader free with a library card.
• Private windows. The monthly meter is cookie-based and resets in a private window, though premium-flagged pieces stay locked.
• Newsletters. The Post's free daily email, Posthaste, carries a full morning briefing and links to the day's stories.
• Introductory offers. Postmedia's digital subscriptions are frequently discounted to under a dollar a week for the first months.

Canadian business news compared

The Financial Post and the National Post both load in full. So does The Globe and Mail, including its Report on Business section. BNN Bloomberg's own site is free. The American business titles are a harder case: Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal enforce their paywalls on the server and do not work, and the Financial Times blocks the reader. Our post on sites that cannot be bypassed lists the alternatives for each.

Subscribe if you read it regularly

Business journalism is expensive to produce and the Financial Post has a small newsroom for the ground it covers. If it is a daily read, the subscription is the direct way to keep it going, and it comes bundled with the National Post.