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From April 25 to 29, 2024 Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 1,500 adults exploring several topics related to Canadian politics and current events as part of our regular national omnibus surveys. In this edition of…
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault faced heated remarks from Conservative…
Planned protests against the carbon price outside Liberal and NDP MP offices on May…
The Bank of Canada is getting closer to cutting interest rates as inflation shows…
A Conservative MP is challenging claims by House of Commons administration that…
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From April 25 to 29, 2024 Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 1,500…
A majority of Canadians support (29%) or somewhat support (36%) building Canada’s…
Mark Carney set the cat among the pigeons last week with a speech that gently…
These are bitter days for those who believe in the essential role of a healthy…
As the ArriveCan scandal unfolds, the ripple effects from the federal government’s…
Unions representing public servants say they are blindsided and outraged by new…
Moments ago, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre was ejected from the House…
In its perpetual sea of political blue, Alberta’s two biggest cities stand out as…
A dozen years ago, Pierre Poilievre was a relatively obscure political figure…
Today, Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the primary tools Google employs to…
There is a new pugnacity to the Liberals. But the day will come when the NDP…
The mainstream U.S. media are generally slow on the uptake when it comes to Canada.…
Sometimes, it’s best to know when to shut up. I say this with some measure of…
There is a point at which the gaslighting becomes genuinely insulting. When meek…
Take a deep breath. You smell that? It’s the scent of resistance affecting your…
The consumer-driven banking framework will help Canadians manage their credit…
The world is becoming too dangerous to surrender foreign policy to diaspora…
It’s been an extraordinary couple of days in the saga of Pierre Poilievre, unleashed.…
Workers of the world, unite! This is your moment. Across the globe, parties are…
A state’s citizens must have the will for it to exist in the world. Has there been any…
Living in Canada, it’s easy to take our safety and security for granted, but that’s…
Justin Trudeau was hoping his housing budget would reverse the government’s slide…
There is a limit to how far Conservative politicians can carry the…
Susan Delacourt: The political chattering class is obsessed this spring with how…
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too…
Talking to Americans got a lot of laughs when comedian Rick Mercer was doing…
Three party insiders join Power & Politics to help unpack how the…
There is a good argument for increasing the tax on capital gains, and it goes…
Mark Carney might be setting the stage to run for the Liberal leadership after the…
The good news about the recent budget is that it at least talks about per capita GDP,…
In the fall of 2021, the editors of the Canadian Tax Journal devoted several dozen…
Perhaps Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was feeling too comfortable. After…
Russian democratic opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza’s health is failing. As…
Every interview with Justin Trudeau now includes some variation on the question, why…
Millennials do not seem to have forgiven or forgotten what Trudeau failed to…
Take a moment to think of Emmanuella Lambropoulos today. In 2020, the Liberal…
Late in the afternoon on Saturday, April 13, massive street parties popped up in…
Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest…
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2022, as the economy rebounded from the…
One of the demands of pro−Palestinian activists who have set up protest encampments on…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget was aimed at making Canadians feel…
Over three meetings this spring, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has presented Doug Ford with…
It’s byelection day in two Ontario ridings and one of the races appears to be quite…
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn’t think the federal budget…
Defence Minister Bill Blair says it’s hard to convince cabinet and Canadians that…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will support the federal budget, ending…
While Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives continue to endear themselves to voters,…
A Quebec judge has rejected a request for an injunction against an encampment…
Describing how politics has grown so “toxic” and “hyperpartisan” that she is…
The federal government had little choice but to cut a deal with Ontario over…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he does not regret calling Prime…
Afederal cabinet minister remained listed as director of a medical supply…
The Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) begins covering 1.7 million seniors…
Voters in two Ontario ridings head to the polls in a pair of byelections…
As the federal government renews a budget pledge to bring forward…
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says his government “will respond” to the Canada…
The federal government will expect public servants back in the office three days…
Members of Parliament targeted in a suspected China-backed espionage…
The government’s attempts at reaching younger voters through a pre- and…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of…
Testy exchanges between the prime minister and his chief opponent ended with the…
Canada’s justice minister says the notwithstanding clause should only be used as…
The Liberal government is proposing to make changes to Canada’s asylum claim…
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed…
Montréal’s McGill University says it has requested police assistance to remove an…
A lobbyist with business ties to federal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault…
Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian…
India has again lashed out at Canada for giving space to “extremism and violence”…
The federal government says the task force it created to monitor and…
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is relegating a Civil War-era ban of nearly all…
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who negotiated a pair of hush money deals at the…
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump returned briefly to the campaign trail Wednesday…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian…
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump on Wednesday will use a one-day break from his…
In 2017, the Canadian government unveiled its updated defense policy, Strong…
Despite the importance of natural resources to our economy, Canadians often…
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A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly…
Pro-Palestine encampments are springing up on campuses across the United States.…
With the new electoral map now in force and the numbers of months before the next…
This week on WONK, Trevor Tombe talks to host Edward Greenspon about the Trans Mountain…
For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Paul…
Don’t expect the foreign interference inquiry to do much to impede Beijing’s…
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The world has changed dramatically since Lester Pearson accepted the Nobel Peace…
When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre visited a convoy camp on the…
This week, we go On Background with Dan Arnold, chief strategy officer at Pollara…
As the conflict in the Middle East continues to heat up, many Canadian diaspora…
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