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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s suggestion this week that he would use the notwithstanding clause to push through criminal justice reforms would be a landmark moment in the history of the controversial mechanism,…
The question of Pierre Poilievre’s ties — real or otherwise — to an extremist online…
The Trudeau government’s tax hike on capital gains has investors and business leaders…
For a committee struck to review an emergency, the approach to reporting back to…
When Premier Danielle Smith put forth the ambition of building a multi-city…
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It was quite a week in Canadian politics. On Monday, Conservative Leader…
Justin Trudeau led the federal Liberals into the 2015 election on a promise to…
A day after declining to put any limits on how the Conservatives would use the…
A Liberal MP says she’s had enough. After nine years as an MP Pam Damoff says she won’t…
Moments ago, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre was ejected from the House…
Two big developments on foreign meddling in Canada this week: police made arrests in…
Given an impossibly short deadline to complete the initial report of the public…
There was a time, just earlier this year, when Premier Scott Moe’s government…
It used to be that when politicians announced they were stepping down, you got…
If the American empire should fall, history will record (if there are still…
We’re now a few weeks past the federal budget and the latest Liberal offer to…
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…
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,…
A handful of candidates in Canada’s 2019 federal election “appeared willing” to…
Foreign meddling attempts didn’t change who won the last two federal elections in…
So far, 21 MPs from all parties have announced they won’t seek re-election in the next…
Preliminary findings from the federal Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference…
Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators…
The public inquiry investigating foreign interference says attempts from other…
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced a $65−million aid…
The federal Conservatives say their proposed use of the notwithstanding clause…
A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel their right to freedom of…
Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal…
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative candidates have won both Ontario…
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault faced heated remarks from Conservative…
A Conservative MP is challenging claims by House of Commons administration that…
As the ArriveCan scandal unfolds, the ripple effects from the federal government’s…
Planned protests against the carbon price outside Liberal and NDP MP offices on May…
Unions representing public servants say they are blindsided and outraged by new…
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2022, as the economy rebounded from the…
The Bank of Canada is getting closer to cutting interest rates as inflation shows…
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…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hope Hicks, who served as Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign press…
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…
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…
A dramatic development in a shocking case: police on Friday arrested three…
On his episode of Defence Deconstructed, The Hon. Bill Blair speaks to Our North,…
At Issue this week: Pierre Poilievre gets booted from the House of Commons after…
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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