These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Liberals would need to win 1 of 6 upcoming races to maintain control of the House. The countdown for half a dozen byelections is on as MPs who have signalled they won't be returning to Ottawa in the fall begin to vacate their seats. Six MPs say they intend to resign over the summer. While voters in those ridings wait...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has tapped Morgan Breitkreutz, a veteran Liberal organizer, to quarterback his government’s response to the Alberta separatist referendum vote scheduled for October. Mr. Breitkreutz joined the Prime Minister’s Office this month as a senior special adviser. Before then, he was the chief of staff to Eleanor Olszewski, an Edmonton MP who has two ministerial roles for...
A Canadian polling firm has sent Premier Doug Ford a legal letter demanding he corrects the record after Ford claimed the organization published a “fake” public opinion survey showing the premier’s personal approval rating at a record low level.
The Conservative leader criticized woke indulgences and rejected efforts to divide Canadians based on race, gender, or other characteristics.
Mark Carney knows how to work a room. Twenty years of top-level international summitry as a finance mandarin, central banker and prime minister have honed that skill. More important: Carney knows how to read a room. In Davos earlier this year, attendees wanted to hear some sort of plan to contain U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating insanity. So the prime...
On the world stage, Canada's prime minister is a statesman. In Ottawa, he is a ward boss. MONTREAL, QUEBEC — Mark Carney arrived at the Liberal Party convention in April ready to play the hits that had carried him through a triumphant year in office. “Hope isn’t a plan, and nostalgia isn’t a strategy,” he said in his keynote address...
The Toronto seat is expected to be vacated by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith in coming weeks. A face familiar to many on Parliament Hill is launching a bid to return — this time, as an MP. Claire Seaborn, a Bay street lawyer and former chief of staff to Trudeau-era minister Jonathan Wilkinson, intends to seek the Liberal nomination in the...
Promising to “unlock (Canada’s) full potential as an energy superpower,” the federal government unveiled its new Nuclear Energy Strategy on Monday. The 23-page strategy is structured around four pillars: enabling new builds, being a supplier and exporter of choice, expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and developing new nuclear innovations. The Liberal government signalled earlier this year that the...
Company to design, build project expected to be chosen by July 2027. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce on Friday a long-awaited plan to restore 24 Sussex Drive that includes a fundraising campaign to come up with as much money as possible to pay for it, CBC News has learned. A senior government source said Carney's plan is...
New limit was quietly introduced, surprising therapists and clients alike. When the federal government introduced supplemental health copayments for asylum seekers and refugee claimants earlier this spring, it also quietly brought in a 10-hour yearly cap on mental health sessions for them, CBC News has learned. Mental health practitioners have been lobbying for a reversal since, with limited success.
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled plans Friday to restore the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa through a national design competition and fundraising campaign. The prime minister said the winning design proposal will be announced by Canada Day of next year. Carney said the heritage building is a "symbol of the nation" that has fallen into a...
The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize their use — even pesticides Health Canada has deemed are unsafe.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party and will leave office within weeks, forced out by his own party scarcely two years after being elected in a landslide. Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until the party chooses a new Labour leader -- with expectations growing that...
A trustee at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is quitting the organization’s board over an upcoming exhibit about the late 1940s displacement of Palestinians, saying its lack of vital historical context will stir up hostility against Jewish people. Mark Berlin submitted his resignation on Monday in a letter addressed to Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, and...
From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada's aging submarine fleet turned heads in more ways than one. The unusually short competition to build the navy's next submarine fleet seemed to focus on everything but the boats themselves...
As the Carney government wraps up the parliamentary sitting this week, political watchers may be forgiven for thinking they’ve entered a time warp. Opposition MPs — Conservatives prominently among them — stood in the House of Commons, sounding the alarm over Liberal attempts to shut down debate, halt committee studies, block witnesses and stop amendments. The government’s moves were an...
K'omoks chief says criticism is 'based on claims that simply aren't true.' Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced Friday that he and other Conservative party MPs will oppose the ratification of the K'omoks First Nation's treaty. Speaking in West Vancouver, Poilievre called for the treaty, drafted between the K'omoks First Nation, the province and Canada, to be put on hold...
Almost a year after the federal government's Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers to expedite projects deemed to be in the national interest. At an announcement in Yellowknife on Wednesday, three federal ministers identified two Arctic roads and a nuclear waste repository in Ontario as the first three proposals the federal...
The shine has gone off Doug Ford a little this year. And his government has some miles on the odometer. While Ford has surpassed the expectations of his critics in the past, time and circumstances may be catching up. Liberal chances will have a lot to do with how Ford comes across over the next couple of years. It’s very...
News comes as Ottawa has set the ambitious goal of doubling Canada's electric grid by 2050. The federal government is expected to announce on Friday that it will prioritize infrastructure upgrades that would allow provinces to share excess electricity more cheaply and easily. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson is expected to highlight five power-line projects, or interties, that the federal government...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says there will be an announcement on Friday about the future of 24 Sussex Drive. No prime minister has lived at the official residence of the prime minister since Stephen Harper in 2015. Carney currently lives at Rideau Cottage on the grounds of Rideau Hall. Carney was asked about what he would like to see happen...
The delayed opening of a bridge connecting Michigan and Canada is spilling into one of the country's most closely watched Senate races, as Democratic candidate Mallory McMorrow launches the first major effort to turn the controversy into a political liability for President Donald Trump and Republicans. McMorrow's new ad, shared first with The Associated Press, accuses Trump of blocking the...
The premier’s office says a Ford Fest photo that appeared to have been edited to make protesters look like supporters was the result of “routine” colour correcting. Officials offered the explanation Monday, after a photo posted online by a pair of Progressive Conservative MPPs over the weekend raised eyebrows for what appeared to be a digital alteration.
The Liberals continue to lead with 48 per cent support among decided voters, down two points since June 1. Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to be doing much more this summer than flipping burgers and pancakes.
Defence contractor says their aircraft would create 1,100 maintenance jobs in Canada. One of the leading competitors to sell Canada early warning surveillance aircraft says it was caught off guard by the decision of Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to open contract negotiations with European defence giant Saab. Three companies — two American, one Swedish — were in the running...
Prime minister has said he wants to see his successors at the historic official residence. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce the government's long-awaited decision about the future of 24 Sussex Drive in the coming weeks, sources tell CBC News. The derelict residence is meant to house Canada's prime ministers, but the 34-room home has been sitting vacant...
The officer commanding one of the Canadian Army's leading regular force battalions and the unit's top non-commissioned officer have been removed from their position. Lt.-Col. Jason Hudson and Chief Warrant Officer Kim Doerr, of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, were apparently forced to step aside over the weekend, several military sources said Tuesday.
Annual event comes just after a key deadline for federal-Alberta pipeline agreement. With the countdown to the Alberta referendum started, Prime Minister Mark Carney's governing caucus will be out in stronger numbers than usual at the Calgary Stampede. Dozens are expected in attendance, after months of lobbying by his few Alberta MPs. "This year, months in advance, I mentioned it...
Washington is signalling growing impatience with Ottawa’s delays on its F-35 purchase and broader defence reset. Article content U.S. defence officials applauded Canada’s 2022 selection of Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter, and the plan to buy 88 of the U.S.-made jets, but political debate and shifting priorities have left only 30 under contract so far.
The federal government wants another high-speed rail stop — making the would-be line less speedy. On Monday, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon directed Alto to consider an additional stop in Kingston, Ont., in what would be a potential major change to the project — a move that drew swift criticism from opponents and raised questions about planning and costs. Coming on...