Members of Parliament vote down Conservative pipeline motion
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament voted Tuesday to defeat a Conservative motion aimed at pinning down the Liberals on whether they support building a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
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Conservatives, Liberals accuse each other of playing games as MPs debate pipeline
OTTAWA -- Government and Official Opposition MPs accused one another of playing political games Tuesday as the House of Commons debated a Conservative motion aimed at pinning down the Liberals on whether they support building a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
Conservatives, Liberals accuse each other of playing games as MPs debate pipeline
OTTAWA -- Government and Official Opposition MPs accused one another of playing political games Tuesday as the House of Commons debated a Conservative motion aimed at pinning down the Liberals on whether they support building a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
Conservatives say they'll amend pipeline motion to get Liberal support
OTTAWA -- The political gamesmanship continues in the House of Commons today ahead of a vote on a Conservative motion that aims to pin down the Liberals on whether they support building a pipeline to the B.C. coast.
Liberals say they'll vote against Conservative motion declaring support for pipeline
OTTAWA -- Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says a Conservative motion declaring support for a pipeline is a cynical ploy designed to divide MPs.
House set to vote today on Conservative motion declaring support for pipeline to B.C.
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are set to debate a Conservative motion today that declares support for an oil pipeline to British Columbia's coast.
Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication
OTTAWA -- Environmental groups say Health Canada needs to take action after an influential research article on the safety of a popular weed-killer was retracted by its publisher.
NDP leader says Liberals are being 'dishonest' about the future of pharmacare
OTTAWA -- The federal government's response to a report it commissioned on national pharmacare was "shockingly dismissive," NDP interim leader Don Davies said this week as he called on the Liberals to come clean on their plans for the program.
Beekeepers call for import ban on non-North American bees as deadly mite spreads
OTTAWA -- Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that's spreading in parts of Asia, and calling on the federal government to take action.
Health minister noncommittal on pharmacare, says expert report isn't binding
OTTAWA -- The federal health minister is not committing to following the road map set out by an expert committee to launch a national pharmacare system.
Health minister noncommittal on pharmacare, says expert report isn't binding
OTTAWA -- The federal health minister is not committing to following the road map set out by an expert committee to launch a national pharmacare system.
Expert report calls on Ottawa to fund essential medicines, enshrine pharmacare in law
OTTAWA -- Canada should create a pharmacare system that offers free access to essential medicines to anyone with a health card and allows private insurance to continue playing a role, an expert committee report recommended on Friday.
Advocates disappointed budget offered no funding for IVF, despite campaign pledge
OTTAWA -- Fertility advocates say they're disappointed the Liberal government did not make good on its campaign promise to fund in vitro fertilization treatments in the recent federal budget.
Sweden and Canada sign strategic partnership as royal couple visits Ottawa
OTTAWA -- Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday morning and were welcomed at Rideau Hall by a small crowd of onlookers waving Swedish flags.
Swedish king and queen in Ottawa for third official visit to Canada
OTTAWA -- Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday morning, welcomed to Rideau Hall by a small crowd of onlookers waving Swedish flags.
Poilievre says he won't be changing his leadership style after caucus departures
OTTAWA -- Pierre Poilievre gave a blunt "no" today when asked if the recent turmoil in his caucus has caused him to reflect on his leadership style.
Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals
OTTAWA -- The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in coming years, one economist says, as the Ontario government calls for that to change.
CP NewsAlert: Liberals clear first confidence vote on budget
OTTAWA -- The minority Liberal government has survived the first of three confidence tests on its federal budget.
Liberals clear first confidence vote on federal budget
OTTAWA -- The minority Liberal government has survived the first of three confidence tests on its federal budget.
NDP, Bloc will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
OTTAWA -- The minority Liberal government appears poised to survive the first of three confidence tests on its budget, with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois declaring Thursday that they will not vote with the Conservatives on an amendment.
NDP, Bloc will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
OTTAWA -- The minority Liberal government appears poised to survive the first of three confidence tests on its budget, with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois declaring Thursday that they will not vote with the Conservatives on an amendment.
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont leaves Conservative caucus on budget day
OTTAWA -- Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont has resigned from the Conservative caucus, a spokesperson for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's office says.
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont leaves Conservative caucus
OTTAWA -- Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont has resigned from the Conservative caucus, a spokesperson for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's office says.
Carney ends Asia trip pledging to 'transform' economy through budget, diversification
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney has wrapped up his first official visit to Asia after telling regional leaders at two major summits that Canada is a stable, reliable investment destination, including for China.
Carney says China doesn't grasp Canada's concern over issues of foreign interference
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Beijing doesn't understand how seriously Canadians take issues of foreign interference, after raising them with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Carney says China doesn't grasp Canada's concern over issues of foreign interference
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Beijing doesn't understand how seriously Canadians take issues of foreign interference, after raising them with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Carney ends Asia trip pledging to 'transform' economy through budget, diversification
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney has wrapped up his first official visit to Asia after telling regional leaders at two major summits that Canada is a stable, reliable investment destination, including for China.
Carney says meeting with Xi marks turning point in Canada-China relationship
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney concluded a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday with an invitation to visit China, but no movement on the trade issues that have plagued the relationship.
Xi invites Carney to visit China as leaders meet at APEC summit
GYEONGJU -- Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to visit China as the pair met on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea on Friday.
CP NewsAlert: Carney, Xi meet on sidelines of APEC summit
GYEONGJU -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea.
Navy commander says he's 'not looking' to have new sub fleet built in Canada
GEOJE -- The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy is pouring cold water on the notion that Canada could see its new fleet of submarines built domestically -- although he's not ruling out the idea altogether.
Carney tours Korean shipyard competing to build Canada's next submarine fleet
GEOJE -- Prime Minister Mark Carney toured a South Korean submarine Thursday during a visit to the shipyards of Hanwha Ocean, one of two companies competing to build Canada's next fleet of submarines.
Carney tours Korean shipyard that's vying to build Canada's next submarine fleet
GEOJE -- Prime Minister Mark Carney toured a South Korean shipyard today owned by a company that's vying to build Canada's next fleet of submarines.
Carney says Canada, U.S. were close to a deal when Trump ended trade talks
KUALA LUMPUR -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and the United States were close to a deal when President Donald Trump abruptly cut off trade talks on Thursday.
Prime Minister Carney says he plans to meet with Chinese President Xi at APEC
KUALA LUMPUR -- Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping while the pair are at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea.
Trump says he won't be meeting with Carney 'for a long time'
KUALA LUMPUR -- U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney this week while the pair are both in Asia.
Carney tells ASEAN summit Canada respects trade rules, as Trump threatens new tariffs
KUALA LUMPUR -- Prime Minister Mark Carney took a veiled shot at the Trump administration's trade policy on Sunday, highlighting Canada's reliability and steadiness without naming the United States or calling out the president directly.
Carney aims to sell Canada as reliable partner for trade in Southeast Asia
Kuala Lumpur -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that's committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is rewriting global trade norms.
Prime Minister Carney's first trip to Asia starts this week with ASEAN, APEC summits
Ottawa -- Prime Minister Mark Carney left Canada Friday morning on his first trip to Asia since taking office — part of his government's efforts to build stronger trade and diplomatic ties with a region that's feeling increasingly squeezed between the U.S. and China.
Poilievre calls on Carney to keep federal deficit under $42B in coming budget
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding that Prime Minister Mark Carney cut taxes and keep the federal deficit under $42 billion in the coming budget.
Liberals, Greens, NDP call on Poilievre to apologize over RCMP comments
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returned to the House of Commons Monday afternoon to a chorus of calls from across the aisle for him to apologize over comments he made last week about the RCMP.
Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging
OTTAWA -- The Senate is studying a bill that proposes adding cancer warning labels to alcohol packaging.
Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents
OTTAWA -- The Conservatives are calling for a new limit on birthright citizenship, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries and curb the risk of abuse of the immigration system.
MPs question Longest Ballot Committee organizer during probe of spring election
OTTAWA -- An organizer behind a protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections told members of Parliament on Tuesday that his invitation to appear before a House committee is proof of the group's success.
MPs question Longest Ballot Committee organizer during study of spring election
OTTAWA -- The protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections went before a House of Commons committee today, where MPs asked them whether they're actually achieving their aims.
Ostrich farmers awaiting Supreme Court decision get little attention from Ottawa
OTTAWA -- As the Supreme Court of Canada considers whether to hear the case of a B.C. farm that's fighting to save its ostriches from a Canadian Food Inspection Agency cull, politicians in Ottawa appear to be choosing their words on the matter very carefully.
Ottawa Public Health says province hasn't approved supervised consumption site
OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn't given her permission for it to remain open.
Ottawa Public Health says province to blame as supervised consumption site closes
OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because the province hasn't given its permission.
Former MPs launch volunteer effort to renew NDP ahead of leadership race
OTTAWA -- Two former New Democrat MPs who lost their seats in the April election are launching a six-month project to renew the NDP and chart its future, ahead of the March convention.
NDP MP urges caution as Canada moves to mend trade relationship with China
OTTAWA -- An NDP member of Parliament who has been a target of Chinese foreign interference says the federal government should be cautious as it tries to mend its trade relationship with Canada's second-largest trading partner.
Health advocates call on Liberals to keep pharmacare promise ahead of budget
OTTAWA -- A group of health care advocates is urging the federal Liberals to stay the course and create a universal, single-payer pharmacare program.
Dental program improving, industry says, but misconceptions about 'free' care persist
OTTAWA -- The rollout of the national dental care program is improving, industry representatives say -- but political statements are still driving a misconception among patients that the program will cost them nothing.
Dental care improving, industry says, but misconceptions about 'free' care persist
OTTAWA -- The dental industry says that while it's working through the early growing pains of the national dental care program, it's still dealing with patients who think they don't have to pay for care.
Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA -- A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty.
The budget, bail and other bills: Five things to watch for as Parliament returns
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are gearing up for their return to the House of Commons in what's expected to be a busy fall.
Both Conservatives and Liberals intend to introduce bail reform legislation this fall
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament will have the chance to debate two different pieces of legislation this fall intended to make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.
Carney says federal government will sign more pharmacare deals with provinces
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberal government is committed to signing pharmacare deals with all provinces and territories, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday, ending months of speculation about the program being cut short.
Carney says federal government will strike more pharmacare deals with provinces
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberal government is committed to signing pharmacare deals with all provinces and territories, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday, ending months of speculation about the program being cut short.
Conservatives plan to introduce their own bill on bail reform this fall
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.
Advocates warn federal budget cuts could reduce diversity and inclusion initiatives
OTTAWA -- Advocates are raising concerns that upcoming federal budget cuts and expected job losses in the public service will jeopardize programs intended to hire and promote people with disabilities.