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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance, refusing to say today whether or not he would keep scheduled increases in place if he becomes prime minister. The federal carbon price is set to rise to…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party still hasn’t decided whether it will…
Honda Canada is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant near its auto…
It can sometimes be difficult to discern what constitutes a hate crime,…
American far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is doubling-down on his recent…
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Canadian consumer confidence has begun to decline. Of note confidence among…
From April 11 to 16, 2024 Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 2,300…
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…
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…
Across Canada, a silent battle is raging against auto theft, a national…
This past weekend, the annual Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner was…
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…
The carbon price is a dead tax walking. NDP leaders Jagmeet Singh and Wab Kinew…
Since 2015, Justin Trudeau has been a Pied Piper, playing a tune jaunty…
Back when the annual Canada Strong and Free Conference, which wrapped up Friday,…
This is your regular six-month public service announcement that the RCMP lacks…
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…
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday made a renewed case for the…
Nova Scotia Justice Minister Brad Johns has resigned from cabinet. Premier Tim…
One of Canada’s leading disability scholars is quitting a federal advisory…
Liberal and NDP MPs are lamenting the loss of the longtime Conservative chair of…
Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab defended security…
The prime minister is urging de−escalation of tensions in the Middle East, though he…
Rookie Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner, who won her riding by one of the closest margins…
As the sun rose over both Iran and Israel Friday morning, the details of what happened…
Two narratives about the 2024 federal budget set out by the finance minister and…
The Conservative Party of Canada has urged the judge overseeing the Public…
A regional intelligence source with knowledge of Iran’s potential reaction to…
The recruiting hole in which the Canadian military finds itself is deeper and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers and an attorney for former President Donald…
NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says Donald Trump “orchestrated…
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, prosecutors will present…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed the mayor of…
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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