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Prime minister, premiers rejected Musk's calls for provinces to separate from Canada When Elon Musk called for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from Canada earlier this week, it may have been nothing more than the trillionaire engaging in some anti-Canadian trolling. But it's also possible, according to one Musk observer, that the Tesla and Space X CEO had something...
Premier Danielle Smith is among 22 members of Alberta's legislature facing a recall petition from constituents. It's not so easy to remove a politician from office between elections in Canada. That's due, in part, to the fact there are few jurisdictions in the country where laws to recall an elected representative are in place. And even where recalls are an...
Liberals captured 169 seats, just missing out on the 172 needed for a majority. With the federal Liberals just a few seats shy of a majority government, there's been some speculation over whether Prime Minister Mark Carney might be zeroing in on members of Parliament from other parties to cross the floor and join his party's fold.
Party lost 9 seats in the province, while Conservatives gained 16. Winning a fourth mandate and returning to power was certainly a victory for the federal Liberals, but it was marred by a disappointing showing in Ontario which played a significant role in costing them a majority. "Obviously, if you compare to where the Liberals were three months ago, it...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told the U.S. president to butt out of the federal election after Donald Trump appeared to suggest Canadians vote for him when they go to the polls on Monday. "President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box," Poilievre posted on social...
Poll finds most Canadians see Carney as a change from former prime minister. During the English leadership debate, some of the most compelling exchanges included Mark Carney fending off accusations from Pierre Poilievre that the Liberal leader was just another version of former prime minister Justin Trudeau. "You spent years running against Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax," Carney said...
Conservative leader has called for an end to 'woke ideology' in schools. U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools. But so far, the Conservative leader has been sparse on details of exactly...
No federal government has ever used the notwithstanding clause. In January 2006 during the federal leaders' debate, Liberal Leader Paul Martin surprised many political observers when he seemingly out of the blue raised the issue of the notwithstanding clause. Martin challenged Conservative Leader Stephen Harper to agree to a constitutional amendment ensuring that Ottawa would never use the controversial clause...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are offering similar sounding energy development plans that would fast-track regulatory processes and create energy corridors to develop natural resource projects. But some industry analysts and observers, while applauding the directions that both leaders are taking, are cautioning that their proposals may face significant challenges.
Media can ask 4 questions per event, with no follow-ups At a news conference in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ignored a CTV reporter's question about his refusal to get a security clearance, instead dismissing her as "just a protester." The reporter had shouted the question out of turn, as she was not one of...
Conservative Party estimates about 15,000 attended Edmonton rally. At a news conference in Edmonton on Tuesday, it was Pierre Poilievre who decided to ask the media a couple questions, specifically about the size of the crowd at his rally in the city the night before. Before a Globe and Mail reporter was able to ask her question — whether the...
At a recent campaign event in North York, Ont., Pierre Poilievre had just left the podium after answering a media question about an underfunded francophone school when his wife Anaida approached him. The Conservative leader promptly returned to the podium, saying that his wife had just reminded him to make the point that Liberal Leader Mark Carney does not have...
Liberal government would make the broadcaster's funding statutory. Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster. "When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded," Carney said...
Both camps deny the Conservative leader reached out for campaign help. After Doug Ford's significant majority victory in Ontario, one might think Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would be racing to cozy up to the premier for help in winning the crucial battleground province in the federal election. Poilievre, however, said he hasn't approached the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader for assistance...
Those protections have their limits, experts say. When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Mark Carney this week of being beholden to China, it was the latest in a series of barbs he's thrown at the Liberal leader's past corporate stints and personal financial holdings. But it also raised questions as to whether the former board chair of Brookfield Asset Management...
An investigation by Indian officials that alleges dozens of Canadian colleges and universities might be linked to a scheme of illegally ferrying students across the Canada-U.S. border reveals the "staggering" extent to which holes in the immigration system can be exploited, some experts say.
Canada may feel it has no choice other than to retaliate, Scotiabank economist says. If Canada seeks to retaliate over U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's tariff threat, the government should hit the U.S. where it hurt would both economically and politically, some trade experts suggest. The challenge would be to "find some iconic U.S. item … that would resonate with Trump's...
Canada, prepare for the big squeeze. A new Trump administration is likely to press this country on multiple fronts: trade, migration and military spending. The reverberations of Donald Trump's election win will ripple internationally with his plan for sweeping tariffs, mass deportation of migrants and intense pressure on countries to spend more on their own defence.
Feds and Ontario also doling out $5B for 1,000 EV plant-related jobs, or $5M per job. When the federal government said earlier this week its investment of $1.7 million in a Brampton, Ont., pasta plant would create 10 jobs, some questioned whether that taxpayer money was being put to good use. One economics professor tweeted he was "legit astonished" by...
YouTube is blocking access in India to a story by CBC's The Fifth Estate on the alleged contract killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist after the Indian government ordered the social media platform to take that action. The Fifth Estate story released on Friday included video of the fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June as he left his...
Last December, two partners at an Ontario car dealership received a threatening WhatsApp call, demanding they either give the caller hundreds of thousands of dollars, or face an attack on their business. They were unsure of what to make of the call, but two days later, as one of the partners made his customary walk around the lot of their...
The sexual assault trial of retired vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson, the military's former head of human resources, begins today in an Ottawa courtroom, more than 30 years after the attack is alleged to have occurred Edmundson, who later resigned as head of military personnel command and retired from Canada's Armed Forces, was charged in December 2021 with one count of sexual...
More than a thousand people congregated at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square Monday afternoon, many saying they were there to support the Palestinian people and not to glorify the deadly attacks launched by Hamas against Israelis over the weekend.