These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Government says list of major projects would grow over time. The initial tranche of major projects the federal government will help get off the ground quickly include expanding liquefied natural gas production in B.C., and upgrading the port in Montreal, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday. As CBC News first revealed Wednesday evening, Carney unveiled a list of five "nation-building"...
As Liberals huddle in Edmonton on the heels of last week’s ministerial “planning forum,” the prime minister and his cabinet will have their first chance to hear from caucus after a summer focused on defence, tariffs, and international trade. Yet while confidence in the prime minister among the backbench and general public generally remains high, there is growing discontent among...
No private company has raised a finger so far to develop such a project. As Prime Minister Mark Carney's government prepares to announce the first projects of national interest it has selected, Radio-Canada has learned that no oil pipeline is on the list, according to three sources that have spoken to Radio-Canada. "There is no [oil] pipeline project on the...
Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says federal security agencies initially refused to offer her protection -- and wouldn't even show her the risk assessment they'd completed -- as she faced a rising tide of threats and harassment online and in person. McKenna was the Liberal MP for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021 and served in cabinet the entire time...
Once the most popular premier in the country, Quebec’s François Legault is now far and away the most unpopular. New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds one-in-five (22%) in Quebec approve of Legault, while more than three times as many (72%) do not. This marks the lowest approval of Legault since he first took office in 2018, and...
Months after the federal election, Canada’s unofficial “first lady” remains an enigma. DIANA FOX CARNEY has done exactly one interview since she became Canada’s “first lady” this past March—and it was a sit-down that wasn’t supposed to happen.
Chrystia Freeland is quitting Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet and taking on a new role as Canada's special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Freeland announced her resignation as transport minister on Tuesday. She said she will remain in the House of Commons as an MP for her Toronto riding of University-Rosedale but will not seek re-election. She left Tuesday's...
Charges are expected to be filed soon, suspect named as Tyler Robinson. Utah's governor said early Friday that they have a suspect in custody in connection with the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week. The suspect was named as Tyler Robinson, 22, a state resident who did not attend Utah Valley University, where Kirk was gunned...
Amid concerns of potential job cuts, Prime Minister Mark Carney says any reduction of the size of the federal public service will “happen naturally through attrition.” Carney made the remarks while speaking to reporters at a housing announcement in Ottawa on Sunday. When asked whether he will keep the Liberal Party’s election pledge to cap and not cut the public...
Toronto MP is currently Transport minister. Longtime Liberal cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland is stepping down from cabinet, sources tell CBC News. Those sources, who spoke on the condition they not be named, said the Transport minister is taking up an envoy role related to Ukraine.
Six months after being elected, the Carney government continues to enjoy high polling numbers from a Canadian public that is still nervous about Trump’s impact on Canada. Thrust into a political scene that required a lot of tough talk from Mr. Carney, voters assumed they were getting someone who would stand up for Canada to Trump. Outside of terminally political...
As Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland was in the House of Commons distancing Ottawa from BC Ferries’ plan to buy four new ships from a Chinese state-owned shipyard, senior Liberal advisers were debating how to manage a looming announcement that there was in fact a connection. Canada Infrastructure Bank, a federal Crown corporation, had provided $1-billion in financing for the purchase.
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday said “the relationship is good” with the United States and that he is in regular contact with U.S. President Donald Trump, despite an ongoing trade war and no deal in sight to resolve it. Carney made the comments during the first question period of the new fall session of Parliament, where he faced questions...
The Ontario Liberals will look to hold their third leadership race since 2020, following a resignation announcement by Bonnie Crombie, who received a weak show of support at the party's annual general meeting. Crombie, who won the party's last leadership race in late 2023, said in a statement that she believes it is the best decision for the party to...
Politicians in Canada are speaking out about political violence after Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event. In a social media post, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Kirk's shooting must be strongly denounced.
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination. Authorities say Kirk was killed with a single shot from a rooftop on Wednesday. Whoever fired the gun then slipped away...
The federal Liberals have placed their hopes for scaling up Canada's affordable housing stock in Ana Bailao, a former Toronto city councillor. Bailao spent 12 years at Toronto City Hall starting in 2010 and directed a number of affordable housing initiatives there. As a chair of the city's planning and housing committee, she pushed for exclusions to higher development charges...
The prime minister — and Canadians — are facing many choices in short order.Even while Mark Carney has been accused of lowering his elbows in regards to American tariffs, he continues to frame the larger challenge facing this country in stark terms. "What's going on is not a transition," Carney said last week in Mississauga, Ont., while announcing an array...
Former Harper-era cabinet minister Lisa Raitt — and a fellow CTV News analyst — once summed up, with a knowing smile, what she’d been hearing from voters during the last campaign: They liked Conservative policies, but they wanted Mark Carney to implement them. At the time, it was just a witty observation. Today, it looks remarkably prescient. The Liberal art...
After shooting of Charlie Kirk, Conservative leader says top politicians need protection. Pierre Poilievre says he worries for his family as political violence concerns grow in the U.S. and Canada following the fatal shooting of an American right-wing activist — and the Conservative leader believes all of Canada's top politicians should have protection. "We have had very serious threats to...
Ottawa's chief data officer says he thinks the introduction of artificial intelligence to federal government operations will lead to "some" job cuts in the public service. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Stephen Burt said he thinks the impacts are going to vary widely and will be job-specific, with different outcomes in different areas. While he wouldn't identify...
One of two finalists in the competition to build the Royal Canadian Navy's next fleet of submarines is pitching multiple industrial partnerships and economic benefits in the hopes of sealing the deal. Hanwha Oceans is floating various industrial-technological benefit collaborations that could involve investments in Canadian lithium-ion battery production, liquefied natural gas, aerospace, steel, critical minerals mining and sustainable energy.
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie is indicating she will stay on as leader, after party delegates voted against having a new leadership race -- though only narrowly. Voting was taking place through the weekend at the party's annual general meeting in Toronto and 57 per cent of delegates said there should be no new leadership race, meaning they support Crombie...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her latest meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney has inspired optimism and he is demonstrating a "real shift" from the previous Justin Trudeau-led Liberals. Speaking in Edmonton on Thursday, she said she understands why Albertans might feel the rug has been pulled out from them several times before, but she's committed to diplomacy. "I found...
The next 8 weeks may set the political context for the next couple of years, as policy directions turn to specific announcements and a budget lands with a lot of tangible detail. Economic anxiety is high, the mood is tense. GDP is under pressure, tariff impacts are being felt. People are impatient for a return to more predictable times, a...
Ben Mulroney is taking the reins of Global News' political affairs program, "The West Block." Global News says Mulroney will serve as interim host while Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson takes parental leave. The son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney begins his stint Sept. 14 when a 15th season launches on Global and streams live on StackTV.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will face the House of Commons next week for the first time since June. It begins the fall sitting of Parliament with an approval rating among Canadians that no government has seen in nearly a decade, according to new polling done exclusively for Global News by Ipsos. While Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre has derided the...
7 remaining MPs gathered on Vancouver Island as party charts its future. On the coast of Vancouver Island, the remaining NDP members of Parliament came to do some soul-searching. The seven survivors — the "mighty seven" as they sometimes jokingly call themselves — gathered in the quaint coastal community of Parksville, just north of Nanaimo, for a caucus retreat last...
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney doesn't mince words when asked about possible Alberta separation. He says it's a historically discredited concept driven by a pocket of malcontents and guaranteed to shred the social fabric of the province it purports to champion. "It's bananas if we allow a tiny perennially angry minority to drag the whole province through a deeply divisive...
Right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform UK party is surging in the polls in Britain, says he is modelling his strategy on that of Preston Manning, who led Canada’s Reform Party to eclipse the federal Progressive Conservatives in the 1990s. Mr. Manning received a standing ovation after speaking to Reform UK’s annual conference on Friday, where Mr. Farage paid...