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Liberal and NDP MPs are lamenting the loss of the longtime Conservative chair of the parliamentary committee on the status of women. Government members say they were disappointed to learn this week that Karen Vecchio would no…
Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab defended security…
Lots to talk about this week and much of it connected to the fallout from the new…
Nova Scotia Justice Minister Brad Johns has resigned from cabinet. Premier Tim…
Rookie Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner, who won her riding by one of the closest margins…
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Following the release of our recent study, Cracking the Newcomer Code, Leger…
A strong majority of Canadians say it is important that telecommunications…
Politics doesn’t feel like too much of a party these days, which is more bad luck…
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday made a renewed case for the…
One of Canada’s leading disability scholars is quitting a federal advisory…
Across Canada, a silent battle is raging against auto theft, a national…
This past weekend, the annual Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner was…
Governments often use budgets to change the channel from what their opponents want…
One day fourteen years ago, after speaking to what was then called Ryerson…
This year’s federal budget was presented against a challenging background.…
What can be said about Canada’s health care system that hasn’t been said countless…
As part of its weeks-long pre-budget rollout, the Liberal government has sent…
The goal of Budget 2024(opens in a new tab) was simple enough: Put out the raging…
Chrystia Freeland is so averse to private enterprise, she’s now trying to put…
The political trajectory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2024 can…
If recent polls remain the same, sometime between now and October 2025 Conservative…
The Trudeau government’s eighth budget is aimed explicitly at the fact that, for…
“Without a course correction, we are indeed heading for ‘Tepid Twenties’ –…
One big thing has changed between the 2024 budget and the one Justin Trudeau’s…
“The Canadian economy,” boasts the Trudeau government’s latest budget, “is doing…
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled Budget 2024 on…
When you’re new to the job of governing, a budget is a manifesto written…
Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2024 lets the federal Liberals play two styles of…
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” That’s the…
Abacus Data’s latest polling has the federal Conservatives out to their biggest…
The Canadian government’s recent defence policy update, Our North: Strong and Free,…
“Take the win.” That was the advice given by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to…
As the mayor of Brampton, Canada’s fastest-growing large city and a critical…
The carbon price is a dead tax walking. NDP leaders Jagmeet Singh and Wab Kinew…
Since 2015, Justin Trudeau has been a Pied Piper, playing a tune jaunty…
Back when the annual Canada Strong and Free Conference, which wrapped up Friday,…
This is your regular six-month public service announcement that the RCMP lacks…
Let us lament the decline of Canadian foreign policy now subsumed into Canada’s…
The prime minister is not getting ahead in public opinion polls. Could he still be…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre may not have, in his words, Prime Minister…
This week we learned what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew about interference by…
When Arizona’s Supreme Court reinstated an abortion ban this week, it yanked…
Fred DeLorey, the former campaign manager for the Conservative Party of Canada,…
She has the right to hold a grudge, but declines to take any cheap shots. Dr. Jane…
The prime minister is urging de−escalation of tensions in the Middle East, though he…
As the sun rose over both Iran and Israel Friday morning, the details of what happened…
Two narratives about the 2024 federal budget set out by the finance minister and…
The Conservative Party of Canada has urged the judge overseeing the Public…
A regional intelligence source with knowledge of Iran’s potential reaction to…
The recruiting hole in which the Canadian military finds itself is deeper and…
Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct…
Canada’s industry minister is weighing a list of a dozen foreign grocery…
The federal health minister is accusing Pierre Poilievre of spreading ‘lies’ after…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered an hour-long rebuttal to the…
Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc says he plans to run in the next election as…
The Canada Border Services Agency is scrambling to find space to hold high-risk…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a “fraud” for portraying himself as…
Most Canadians in March reported feeling angry or pessimistic towards the federal…
The federal Lobbying Commissioner has not yet been in touch with Conservative…
One of British Columbia’s longest-serving MLAs has launched a campaign to run for…
A chorus of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors is blasting the federal…
In her budget speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Finance Minister Chrystia…
Fareed Khan sometimes becomes overcome by grief when he talks about the growing death…
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s predecessor Bill Morneau says there was talk…
One day after the speeches have been made, what have Canadians noticed about the…
Behind the scenes, the plot thickens in regards to the future leadership of the…
The House of Commons admonished a private citizen Wednesday for the first time…
Federal politicians accepted sponsored travel in 2023 at a rate not seen since…
A spokeswoman for Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she will continue to advocate for…
The federal budget is being met with distain from Canada’s innovation industry,…
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has dipped into the Quebec…
Premier says Trudeau has tried to ‘bait me’ with name-calling. Newfoundland and…
The federal lobbying commissioner confirmed Tuesday that a “preliminary…
Heading into this week’s federal budget, one question loomed large: would new…
The RCMP says it has searched the office of a contractor who worked on the…
NEW YORK (AP) — The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the…
NEW YORK (AP) — A person who was on fire in a park outside the New York…
HONG KONG (AP) — Apple said it had removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its…
The House has renewed its push on legislation that would ban TikTok if its…
In its 2021 federal budget, the Liberal government introduced its national child…
The federal government outlined a number of small steps in pandemic…
A document imbued with incrementalism offered at least one big energy policy…
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Remember the Shopaholic book series of the early 2000’s? Author Sophie Kinsella made…
There’s trouble in the ring at the RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride, where the horses are…
Immigration has built Canada since its earliest days. While maintaining harmony…
Former health minister Jane Philpott comes on the podcast to talk about how to fix…
This week, we assess the pros and the cons of an election for the New Democrats as…
At Issue this week: The Liberals work to sell their multi-billion dollar spending…
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On this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle and Joe Calnan…
This week on WONK, Mark Podlasly joins host Edward Greenspon to explain how Indigenous…
The 2024 federal budget included nearly $53 billion in new spending and a tax…
On the deteriorating global order and threats to Canada, why he’s optimistic about…
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