These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Jivani is longtime friends with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says he met with Trump administration officials on Wednesday as he visits the United States capital on an independent trip billed as an effort to improve Canada-U.S. trade relations. Jivani said U.S. President Donald Trump gave him a message to share with fellow Canadians. "Productive meetings today...
Jamil Jivani’s solo mission to Washington has provoked confusion and consternation among some of his Conservative colleagues who want to avoid the party looking cozy with Donald Trump’s administration. Jivani, a friend of U.S. Vice-President JD Vance since they attended Yale Law School together, paid a visit to Vance’s office in what he described as an attempt to “build bridges”...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have discussed the possibility of an early federal election in casual conversations about the importance of a majority mandate to deal with uncertain economic times, according to three sources. The sources said the Progressive Conservative Premier, who has forged a close relationship with the Liberal Leader, offered his opinion that the...
Details are emerging about a mass shooting in a northeastern B.C. community. Ten people are dead, including the suspect, and approximately 25 were injured.
The GM plant in Oshawa often feels like a mythical place. Long-time residents in the region tell stories of a time when it was a hub of prosperity for tens of thousands of families. They say, when shifts would end, there were so many GM employees that some roads would become one-way streets so workers could drive home in an...
The Conservative Party of Canada has started the candidate nomination process across the country, according to an internal memo. Ottawa is buzzing with election speculation as Elections Canada lines up offices and recruits staff, Liberals poach candidates and MPs from opposition parties, and the Conservatives have formally launched nomination contests. “In a minority government context, the election could be called...
Blair Turner, a police officer from the Ottawa area, says he plans to run for the Conservative nomination in Pierre Poilievre's former riding of Carleton. Turner ran for the Tories in Ottawa South in the most recent federal election in April losing to Defence Minister David McGuinty. Poilievre lost the seat he had held for 20 years and had to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Donald Trump's threat to stall the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge will be resolved following a call with the U.S. president Tuesday. "I explained that Canada paid for the construction of the bridge — $4 billion — that the ownership is shared between the state of Michigan and the Government of Canada," Carney...
President says he won't allow opening until U.S. 'is fully compensated for everything we have given' Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, poised to become the newest border crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit. "I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for...
Alberta NDP leader says province doesn't have 'luxury' of getting stuck in internal ideological battles. Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has a blunt message for federal NDP leadership candidates. Nenshi said he has spoken with the three front-runners — Avi Lewis, Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton — and suggested to CBC News that he asked candidates not to stand in...
Up to $5,000 business or lease incentives coming for EVs. Prime Minister Mark Carney is repealing Canada’s electric vehicle mandate that required all new car sales to be electric in a decade, scrapping another Trudeau-era environmental policy. Instead, Carney is taking his own approach by introducing stronger greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicle models 2027-2032 to encourage automakers to produce...
Despite an ongoing review, Ottawa made payments related to the acquisition of more U.S.-built fighters jets. Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News. The money for these 14 aircraft...
Key legislation that offers early retirement to some public servants is tied to the budget implementation bill, but Senator Peter Boehm, a former longtime public servant and deputy minister, said officials began planning for job reductions ‘some time ago' and aren’t waiting for legislation to go through. With federal public servants continuing to receive notices that their jobs may be...
Potential deals on legislation could keep the Liberal government in power. Liberals and Conservatives are working out a path that could keep the government in power, sources tell CBC News, while Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to downplay the likelihood of a spring election. Asked on Monday whether an election was coming, Carney demurred. “It’s time to do a lot...
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's mission to Washington met with some skepticism in Ottawa Wednesday after he said he wanted to help Prime Minister Mark Carney negotiate a trade deal with the United States. When asked about the Bowmanville-Oshawa North MP's trip to the U.S. capital to meet with political and business figures, Carney pointed out that Jivani is neither the...
The latest federal voter intentions from Mainstreet Research show a surge for the Mark Carney Liberals who now hold a 15 point advantage over the Conservatives. The latest snapshot was fielded over the weekend from January 31 to February 2, 2026 with a sample size of 1,276. This carries a margin of error of +/- 2.7 19 times out of...
'No patience for separatist blackmail,' says former Liberal minister Stéphane Dion. Former Liberal cabinet minister Stéphane Dion is lambasting the brewing separatist movement in Alberta and demanding that Premier Danielle Smith clarify her position and lay out the next steps depending on the outcome of a possible independence referendum. "I have no patience for separatist blackmail," Dion said in an...
Former prime minister says Canada should consider hitting U.S. goods with tariffs as trade war drags on. Former prime minister Stephen Harper said late Wednesday that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy. Speaking at a...
United States President Donald Trump is privately musing about exiting the North American trade pact, people familiar with the matter said, injecting further uncertainty about the deal’s future into pivotal renegotiations involving the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The president has asked aides why he shouldn’t withdraw from the agreement, which he signed during his first term, though he has stopped...
The federal government is ordering public servants to be in the office at least four days a week starting this summer, with executives expected to return to the office full time in May. A Treasury Board message to deputy department heads published Thursday said executives will have to work on-site five days per week starting May 4. All other employees...
Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland says when it comes to the U.S. and its relationships with other countries on the world stage, it needs to "get their act together." Since his 2025 inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened several countries, including Canada, with annexation and tariffs on goods, creating an ongoing trade war. Freeland, fresh off her January resignation...
The billionaire owner of a bridge connecting Michigan with Canada met Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, on Monday hours before President Trump lambasted a competing span, in the latest flashpoint in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. Matthew Moroun is a Detroit-based trucking magnate whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor...
The Liberal who unseated Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre from his Ottawa-area riding in the last election is criticizing the government's new return-to-office policy for federal workers. Bruce Fanjoy, who represents the Carleton riding in the House of Commons, says there's no evidence it will boost productivity and warning it will increase pollution. He also says the new policy makes it...
What’s Canada’s secret weapon to supercharge our economy? Something most of us rarely think about until it’s missing: electricity. Affordable, reliable energy sits at the centre of how we live and work, and how our industries compete. That’s why it was encouraging to see the Prime Minister meeting with provincial and territorial premiers to talk about doubling the power grid...
Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended his plans to travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia. Carney said in a statement he is devastated by the horrific shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and that he joins Canadians in "grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today." RCMP say eight people, including the...
Twenty years after he was sworn in as Canada’s 22nd prime minister, Stephen Harper was once again the reason Conservatives descended on Ottawa, but this time for the unveiling of his official portrait. The event brought together a number of former ministers and staffers who served with Harper on Parliament Hill between 2006 and 2015. Prior to the ceremony, many...
The prospect of Alberta leaving Canada is such a hot topic that the other potential “leavers” have been overlooked.
Amid ongoing debate about provincial sovereignty, most Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, according to a new survey from the Angus Reid Institute. Fewer than three in 10 Albertans, 29 per cent, said they would vote for separation if a referendum were held today. Most of those respondents said they are leaning toward that position rather than firmly committed...
CONSERVATIVE DELEGATES’ resounding show of support for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in Calgary is more interesting than a more tentative vote would have been. The way people talk about Poilievre in Ottawa and Toronto, including a lot of long-time Conservatives, suggests they think he’s trying to be like Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he’s bad at it. The weekend’s events in...
Report suggests alliances will require sustained work to survive. Almost every foreign diplomat you run across lately simply gushes about Prime Minister Mark Carney's Davos speech, and how his remarks about middle powers banding together went viral in Europe. As much as the speech represented a wake-up call for Canada and its allies, a new report that sets up the...