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Liberal MP Erskine-Smith loses nomination battle for Ontario provincial byelection

Liberal MP Erskine-Smith loses nomination battle for Ontario provincial byelection

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith lost a provincial nomination race Saturday, failing to clear the first of several hurdles toward the leadership of the Ontario Liberals. Ontario Liberal members in the riding of Scarborough Southwest selected business owner Ahsanul Hafiz as their candidate for an upcoming byelection. Erskine-Smith, who represents the neighbouring federal riding of Beaches-East York, had indicated he was...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — Canadian Press
‘Dangerous violation’: Jason Kenney lawyering up after alleged Centurion Project leak

‘Dangerous violation’: Jason Kenney lawyering up after alleged Centurion Project leak

Questions are swirling over who knew — and for how long — that the personal information of millions of Albertans was openly available for all to see on the website of an Alberta separatist group. Now, Jason Kenney says he’s considering legal action after his address was allegedly shared at a meeting by the separatist group — which is run...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — Global News
Inside the collapse of the Canada-US trade deal

Inside the collapse of the Canada-US trade deal

Trump blamed the Reagan ad. Negotiations really fell apart over autos. Prime Minister Mark Carney left the White House in early October with Canada and the United States in reach of a trade deal. Inside the meeting, senior U.S. officials were enthusiastic about a possible agreement covering steel, aluminum, uranium and energy.

  • 2026-05-05
  • — Politico
Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general

Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general

Carney picks a francophone with a long legal resume to serve as the King's representative in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney has named former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada's next governor general. Carney is picking a francophone with a long legal resume that includes stints prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and serving as the UN human...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — CBC News
Ottawa to pull plug on Arctic naval facility

Ottawa to pull plug on Arctic naval facility

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is shuttering a trouble-plagued Arctic naval facility, two government sources say – a project from the Stephen Harper era that was originally conceived as a major demonstration of Canadian sovereignty in the North. The Nanisivik Naval Facility on northern Baffin Island was first promised in 2007 by the Harper government, but cost-cutting later resulted in...

  • 2026-05-07
  • — The Globe and Mail
Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell back in the political game

Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell back in the political game

By the time Gordon Campbell began his 10-year run as premier of B.C. in 2001, he had already been a mayor of Vancouver and a member of the legislature as leader of the BC Liberals. But the former premier said Friday that he does not think a lack of elected experience should be an impediment to Caroline Elliott, a former...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — The Globe and Mail
Liberals Lead But Carney Approval Continues Slide

Liberals Lead But Carney Approval Continues Slide

The latest Weekly Federal Tracker from Liaison Strategies shows the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, holding an 11-point lead over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives but the Prime Minister's approval rating has fallen to 58%. If a federal election were held today among decided and leaning voters, the Liberals would receive 44% of the vote, followed by the Conservatives...

  • 2026-05-11
  • — Liaison Strategies
NDP Leader Marit Stiles predicts prison for Doug Ford

NDP Leader Marit Stiles predicts prison for Doug Ford

NDP Leader Marit Stiles predicts a future behind bars for Premier Doug Ford — if she wins the next election. NDP Leader Marit Stiles predicts a future behind bars for Premier Doug Ford — if she wins the next election. “Maybe you won’t get another mandate — because you’ll get prison, Doug!” said Stiles, whose party is trailing the Progressive...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — Toronto Star
Pierre Poilievre encounters nothing but jerks, all day long

Pierre Poilievre encounters nothing but jerks, all day long

There’s an expression I heard years ago that I try to keep in mind for perspective on days when it feels like everyone in the world has been sent specifically to annoy and oppose me. The original version used naughty language, but I’ll clean it up for the sake of this venerable newspaper. It goes like this: If you wake...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — The Globe and Mail
PM Carney acknowledges auto industry ‘challenges’ after Honda reportedly suspends $15B EV plant

PM Carney acknowledges auto industry ‘challenges’ after Honda reportedly suspends $15B EV plant

Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged that the Canadian auto industry is facing “challenges” due to U.S. tariffs. His comments come amid reporting from a Japanese outlet that Honda is indefinitely suspending plans to build a $15 billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario. “There are challenges with the U.S. tariffs, unjustified tariffs in the auto sector,” Carney said to reporters on...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — CTV News
Senior diplomat skeptical of Carney's middle powers pitch

Senior diplomat skeptical of Carney's middle powers pitch

Malaysia's high commissioner in Canada says she is skeptical about Prime Minister Mark Carney's push to have middle powers band together against the great power of the world's dominant nations. Shazelina Abidin told the Canadian Global Affairs Institute's annual trade conference in Ottawa on Tuesday that Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum was profound, not because of its content...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — Canadian Press
U.S. ambassador cancels speaking appearance in Ottawa due to ‘important’ meetings with White House officials

U.S. ambassador cancels speaking appearance in Ottawa due to ‘important’ meetings with White House officials

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has cancelled a planned speaking engagement in Ottawa. Just over one hour before Hoekstra was scheduled to be a featured speaker at the 2026 Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference in Ottawa, organizers announced the ambassador’s fireside chat had been cancelled. “Today’s programming has been adjusted as Ambassador Hoekstra was called to D.C. for urgent meetings,”...

  • 2026-05-08
  • — CTV News
The buzz in Conservative circles this week isn’t about Pierre Poilievre

The buzz in Conservative circles this week isn’t about Pierre Poilievre

Pierre Poilievre’s speech to the conservative Canada Strong and Free Network conference in Ottawa on Thursday was a perfectly acceptable Opposition leader’s address. Modestly delivered and modestly received, it had much to be modest about. The problem was, it sounded like a reheated version of one of his speeches from last year’s election, a campaign in which he was rejected...

  • 2026-05-08
  • — National Post
Former Progressive Conservative justice minister joins the Nova Scotia Liberal Party

Former Progressive Conservative justice minister joins the Nova Scotia Liberal Party

Becky Druhan, Nova Scotia's former justice minister and Independent member of the legislature, has joined the provincial Liberals and plans to run for party leadership. Druhan represents the Lunenburg West riding in Nova Scotia's South Shore and was elected twice as a member of Premier Tim Houston's Progressive Conservatives. She left the party in the fall citing differences with the...

  • 2026-05-11
  • — Canadian Press
Carney government planning changes to speed approvals for pipelines, resource projects

Carney government planning changes to speed approvals for pipelines, resource projects

Changes coming as Alberta MOU negotiations drag on. The Carney government is planning to propose changes to make it easier for natural resource projects — including pipelines — to be approved and built faster. Two federal sources say an announcement is planned for later this week that could shift the regulatory framework for all natural resource and federally regulated major...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — CBC News
New House of Commons design proposes benches, cinema-style seats and desks for the front bench

New House of Commons design proposes benches, cinema-style seats and desks for the front bench

Government ministers and opposition critics can add a new perk to their frontbench roles when the House of Commons moves back to Centre Block: desks. A mock-up of the proposed future House of Commons seating in Centre Block is on display in the Parliamentary precinct to allow Members of Parliament to comment on the design before it’s finalized.

  • 2026-05-08
  • — National Post
If Erskine-Smith says nomination was unfair, prove it: Interim Ontario Liberal leader

If Erskine-Smith says nomination was unfair, prove it: Interim Ontario Liberal leader

The interim leader of the Ontario Liberal Party says a nomination race this weekend to select a byelection candidate was fair, and if the unsuccessful contestant -- Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith -- wants to call that into question, he should "prove it." Erskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection ahead of an intended...

  • 2026-05-11
  • — Canadian Press
Government documents reveal barrage of threats against Mark Carney

Government documents reveal barrage of threats against Mark Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney faced near-daily threats over his first 100 days in office, according to newly released government documents that show how a wave of threats against top political leaders carried over from the Justin Trudeau era. Obtained under the federal Access to Information system, the documents list hundreds of “direct” and “indirect” threats recorded against the prime minister...

  • 2026-05-08
  • — Toronto Star
How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were 'alienated' under Trudeau

How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were 'alienated' under Trudeau

When it comes to the federal government’s plan to recruit upwards of 100,000 more people into the trades, there stands one demographic likely to benefit the most. Men, and more specifically, young men. Those inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government say the pledge, announced last week as part of the spring economic update, reflects commitments he has made around building...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — National Post
‘I’m tired of being a punching bag for that crowd’: Jason Kenney on Alberta voter data leak

‘I’m tired of being a punching bag for that crowd’: Jason Kenney on Alberta voter data leak

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says he believes he should pursue legal options to hit back at the members of a separatist group who shared his personal information online. “Personally, I’m tired of being a punching bag for that crowd, and I think there needs to be consequences,” Kenney told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — CTV News
Former governors general claimed $554K from expense account last year

Former governors general claimed $554K from expense account last year

2019 report urged greater transparency from Canada's viceregal expense program. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will look into an expense program under which former governors general billed the government more than half a million dollars last year. The program, which launched in 1979 and has been shrouded in secrecy, allows each former governor general to bill up to $206,04...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — CBC News
Carney says plan in the works for 24 Sussex Drive

Carney says plan in the works for 24 Sussex Drive

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will soon move forward with a plan to deal with 24 Sussex Dr., the long-standing residence of Canadian prime ministers that has essentially been shuttered for more than a decade because of its physical decline. The public-works department and the National Capital Commission, which manages official residences in the Ottawa region, are going...

  • 2026-05-08
  • — The Globe and Mail
Quebec: PQ and Liberals Neck-and-Neck; CAQ Gains Ground

Quebec: PQ and Liberals Neck-and-Neck; CAQ Gains Ground

A new Liaison Strategies survey of Quebec shows a close provincial race, with the Parti Québécois narrowly ahead of the Quebec Liberal Party among decided and leaning voters. If a provincial election were held today, the PQ would receive 32% of the decided and leaning vote, followed by the Liberals at 32%, the CAQ at 16%, the PCQ at 11%...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — Liaison Strategies
Alberta UCP staff attended meeting about voter database before app was shut down

Alberta UCP staff attended meeting about voter database before app was shut down

Alberta's United Conservative Party caucus says staff attended a meeting to discuss how to access a website that's now the focus of investigations into a massive breach of personal data. The caucus says in a statement that staff regularly attend meetings of political interest and, in this case, organizers told them the database was obtained legally. The database contained the...

  • 2026-05-05
  • — Canadian Press
Ottawa proposes suite of measures to streamline project approvals, complete review process within 1 year

Ottawa proposes suite of measures to streamline project approvals, complete review process within 1 year

Government will consult for 30 days before tabling legislation. The federal government is proposing legislative changes to streamline the review process for major projects, including energy projects such as pipelines. The changes are aimed at completing these reviews within a year.

  • 2026-05-08
  • — CBC News
Canada to pick between Swedish and U.S. radar planes to protect its skies

Canada to pick between Swedish and U.S. radar planes to protect its skies

Carney government wants to quickly pick a new fleet of detection aircraft with high Canadian content. The primary military threat facing Canada comes from hypersonic or cruise missiles arriving from the north, the sea or even space, launched by adversaries such as Russia or China, according to the Canadian Armed Forces. To defend itself, the government of Canada wants to...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — CBC News
Here’s the real scandal at the heart of the Alberta data breach

Here’s the real scandal at the heart of the Alberta data breach

The scandal isn’t what’s illegal. The scandal is what’s legal. – Michael Kinsley What is so scandalous about a separatist group getting its hands on the Alberta voter list, including the names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly three million of the province’s citizens? Is it that the list appears to have been illegally obtained, and passed on to the...

  • 2026-05-06
  • — The Globe and Mail
The accidental statesman: How Donald Trump saved free trade, European democracy and the free world

The accidental statesman: How Donald Trump saved free trade, European democracy and the free world

I feel perhaps I have been unfair to Donald Trump. Regular readers will know that he has been the subject of the occasional reproof in these corners. Among other things, it has been suggested that he is insane, incompetent, corrupt, treasonous, bottomlessly ignorant, easily manipulated, a Batman villain, and a modern-day Nero: possessed of every vice, devoid of every virtue...

  • 2026-05-08
  • — The Globe and Mail
Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. in some sectors, Carney says

Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. in some sectors, Carney says

Speaking to a room of progressive policy experts in Toronto Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered some insight into what Canada has offered up ahead of an official review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) this summer. “Canada remains open to deeper integration,” said Carney, whose government has so far signaled it is in no rush to negotiate a new deal...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — CTV News
Ontario Liberals to pick byelection candidate in heated race

Ontario Liberals to pick byelection candidate in heated race

Ontario Liberal members in the riding of Scarborough Southwest are set to select their candidate today for an upcoming byelection. Nomination races don't often generate a lot of attention outside the party, but today's vote marks a clear first test for one leadership hopeful. Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, who currently represents the neighbouring riding of Beaches-East York, has made no...

  • 2026-05-09
  • — Canadian Press