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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting a call from some doctors for his government to reconsider its planned capital gains tax hike. The doctors warn that the tax change could undermine efforts to recruit and retain physicians…
Our public opinion research surrounding the federal budget reveals the Liberals…
The 2024 federal budget failed to spark a much-needed rebound in the polls for…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan residents will continue to get…
The corporate conglomerate building an electric battery plant in Windsor that is…
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spark*insights post-Budget research shows Canadians are worried the 2024 Budget will…
In the wake of the federal Liberal budget and an increase in concern about the…
Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest…
In its well-meaning effort to encourage the migration of international students to…
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s new book isn’t going to have the “gossip” that some people…
A few Ontario government members have voted again today to uphold a ban on…
Across Canada, a silent battle is raging against auto theft, a national…
This past weekend, the annual Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner was…
So what’s next? Removing books from university libraries because they challenge…
Canada used to be a nation of peace, order, and good government. Not anymore.…
Danielle Smith has long promised to be the most combative of Premiers. She has lived…
Perhaps slowing sales of electric vehicles in Canada, industry caution, and…
Spring has sprung and with it the Liberal government is clearly waking up from…
Over the past year, pundits in the business press have characterized Canada’s…
In marketing as in politics, a brand’s voice can make or break its ability to…
The panel unpacks the 2024 federal budget as well as more political highlights of…
We are partway through the mandate of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference…
Politics doesn’t feel like too much of a party these days, which is more bad luck…
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…
Newly obtained internal data shows the Saskatchewan government knew COVID-19 was…
The Canadian Medical Association is asking the federal government to…
Uplands will be the site for a new $65-million military facility to control…
Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance,…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party still hasn’t decided whether it will…
It can sometimes be difficult to discern what constitutes a hate crime,…
The Liberals have found their man to lead the second phase of the ports labour review.…
The prime minister’s residence, 24 Sussex Drive, is undergoing a massive…
American far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is doubling-down on his recent…
Honda Canada is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant near its auto…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is condemning a weekend protest on Parliament…
Hundreds of tech leaders and entrepreneurs joined the Shopify founder in…
En ce jour de tempête de neige printanière, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau arrive…
The April 16 federal budget appears to be the last hope for turning Prime Minister…
As a key deadline looms Monday in the leadership contest for Alberta’s New…
Canada is on the verge of an agreement with Honda Motor Co. that would see the…
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she thinks…
A man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer sobbed with…
Despite significant criticisms from business owners and entrepreneurs that parts…
The Trudeau government released its 2024 budget with a promise to bring…
Despite expressing vehement opposition to the newly unveiled federal budget,…
“Everything that is created, built, served and sold in this country is increasingly…
Worry is starting to set in. Days after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled…
The Progressive Conservatives’ multimillion-dollar advertising blitz is…
Dennis Mathu and Stephanie Gordon first started posting financial−advice videos on…
As police link a rise in antisemitic attacks to Israel’s war with Hamas, MPs this…
Three central voices in the ongoing debate around foreign interference say the…
A leading member of the Ukrainian parliament delivered stark warnings to…
In November 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Calgary to speak to the…
Lots to talk about this week and much of it connected to the fallout from the new…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed Donald Trump for Florida’s…
NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged…
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge held a hearing Tuesday on prosecutors’ request to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign…
NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell…
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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“Bring us more targets!” the Israel Defence Force (IDF) commanders shouted at…
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…
We go On Background with Sean Fraser, minister of housing, infrastructure and…
The recent budget’s tax hikes won’t be enough to get us out of the fiscal mess the…
On April 12, 2024, news broke that Sylvie Hauth, the former police chief of Thunder…
It may sound boring, it might be confusing, but the federal government’s new…
Former health minister Jane Philpott comes on the podcast to talk about how to fix…
On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry unpacks Budget 2024 and its…
This week, we assess the pros and the cons of an election for the New Democrats as…
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