These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations says recent U.S. military action in Venezuela shows that Greenland and Canada need to take threats to their sovereignty seriously. “The president has created a whole new guessing game of who’s next,” Bob Rae told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday. “An attack on Greenland would be an attack on NATO, it would be...
NDP MP Lori Idlout says she's been asked to consider it by Liberal Party members, and some constituents. Nunavut's MP says she has no plans right now to join the federal Liberal Party. “I have decided at this point that I can't,” Lori Idlout told CBC News in an interview on Monday. “I've definitely been asked to consider it.” The...
The Post’s analysis of the four key characteristics show several members of the Conservative caucus that could be on the list of potentials. When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits’ views on the floor crossing were all over the place.
Conservative grassroots will debate amending the party’s policy towards diversity, as well as deleting a clause that says a future government would not support legislation restricting abortion, when they meet in Calgary later this month. Delegates from across the country will gather at the party’s first convention since the 2025 spring election loss to vote on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s...
The cancellation of a planned event at York University has led some Conservative MPs to accuse students there of attacking free speech. Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says he was denied permission to hold an event on campus on Friday.
Canada's former ambassador to Venezuela says Ottawa is "parroting" Washington's anti-democratic line by giving air to the idea of fresh elections in Venezuela. Ben Rowswell, who served as Canada's envoy to Caracas, says Canada should instead be working toward helping install the leaders voters chose in the stolen 2024 election. Rowswell is reacting to a statement issued Tuesday by Foreign...
A British Columbia member of Parliament says he's been approached to cross the floor to give Mark Carney's Liberal government a majority, but he's not interested in "betraying" his constituents. Scott Anderson, MP for Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee, says in a post on social media that the Liberals are "pulling out all the stops" to lure Conservatives.
A new global risk assessment is warning that no country would be more “profoundly affected” by a political upheaval in the U.S. than Canada. Published Monday, the Eurasia Group’s “Top Risks For 2026″ report cites deep economic, security and geographic ties that leave Canada especially exposed to instability south of the border. Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, identifies what...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed former federal minister Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on economic development on Monday. Freeland has long expressed her support for Ukraine during its war with Russia, and has said the country could become an economic juggernaut by taking up the opportunities it missed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In a post on social...
Tensions reached a boiling point under Carney's Liberal predecessor Justin Trudeau, whose anti-fossil fuels policies were a major irritant to the region. A new poll shows that tensions with Ottawa are declining in all four western provinces, with perceptions of the federal government improving especially rapidly in Alberta. The poll, taken by Pollara Strategic Insights, finds that half of Western...
President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing President Nicolas Maduro in a raid isn't likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices. Venezuela's oil industry is in disrepair after years of neglect and international sanctions, so it could take years and major investments before production...
Conservative delegates will vote later this month on whether Pierre Poilievre should continue to serve as leader, and while party insiders expect him to easily survive, they say changes are needed to defeat the Liberals in the next election. A Conservative insider who previously worked for Poilievre said the Tory leader doesn’t need to drastically overhaul his style but has...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is warning the federal government that the possible end of American sanctions on Venezuelan oil could displace Canadian exports to the U.S. -- and is urging the Liberals to "immediately approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast." In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media Tuesday, Poilievre said the action taken by...
Stephen Harper’s official prime ministerial portrait will be unveiled next month as part of commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the modern Conservative Party first winning power. The painting, by Canadian artist Phil Richards, will be revealed at an event on Parliament Hill on Feb. 3, three years after work first started on the project. The next night, Mr. Harper...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is working to expand access to oil markets in Asia now that Canada faces the prospect of Venezuelan oil displacing Canadian product in the American market. His remarks came after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged Carney to "immediately approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast" in an letter shared on social media Tuesday...
The wife of Montreal activist and former federal NDP leadership hopeful Yves Engler, barred over alleged harassment, says she has put her name forward for the job. Bianca Mugyenyi shared on social media late Monday that she submitted vetting materials last week ahead of the NDP leadership vote set for March.
Donald Trump’s military strike on Venezuela, his designs on Greenland and his government’s declaration of ownership over the Western Hemisphere together represent an existential challenge to Canada, Bob Rae, this country’s former ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday. Mr. Rae said in an interview that Canadians would be mistaken in thinking they’re not “on the menu” too, meaning “the...
Just short of majority, Liberals will be down an MP at least until byelection is called. Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland is officially vacating her seat in the House of Commons on Friday, leaving the Liberal government — which is within striking distance of a majority — one MP down for the time being. Freeland's resignation adds to what was...
If Putin or Xi removed Maduro and said they would be running Venezuela for a while and selling Venezuela’s oil to make profits from it, would you celebrate this as a great step for freedom? Of course not.
It seems clear that there was great excitement in the Poilievre household on Saturday morning, as news of the surgical strike by U.S. special forces in Venezuela filtered through. Pierre Poilievre’s wife, Anaida, is Venezuelan, and like many of her fellow citizens, she likely rejoiced in the arrest and deportation of the illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday cited U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to make Canada the “51st state” as an example of American foreign policy that is sacrificing allies for “the law of the strongest.” Macron’s blunt remarks were matched by similar comments from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a separate speech that showed European leaders’ growing concern as Trump...
'I can’t understand why a government can’t get down to business and operate rigorously,' says Alan Williams, a former assistant deputy minister of materiel at National Defence. The federal government missing its own deadline for the release of its highly anticipated Defence Industrial Strategy can hurt the industry, and signals to other countries that Canada is “inept and incompetent,” says...
THAT WAS QUITE THE interview minister of energy and natural resources Tim Hodgson gave to La Presse in the last days before Christmas. “This document is an alarm signal,” Hodgson told Joël-Denis Bellavance, referring to the Donald Trump administration’s National Security Strategy.
WHEN HITLER SWALLOWED CZECHOSLOVAKIA in 1938 and then divided Poland with Stalin in 1939, my parents’ generation decided, coming home from the war, to place the sovereignty of nation states at the heart of the United Nations Charter. With the operation in Venezuela, our generation has to ask, and not for the first time, whether anything now survives of a...
A former Alberta energy minister says a proposed bitumen pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast is unlikely to materialize if Canada relies on the private sector alone to build it. “I would say it's not just diminishing, the likelihood of a private sector proponent.… I would almost say it is zero at this point,” Sonya Savage said on CBC's West...
No one need shed a single tear for Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless dictator who extinguished Venezuela’s democracy and set its economy into a death spiral. His sins are many: stolen elections, numerous alleged crimes against humanity, and more than a decade of exploitation of what once was and should still be a prosperous country. And of course, the Trump administration...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ontario Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland's upcoming resignation from the House of Commons is "consistent" with taking a role as an unpaid economic development adviser for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Occam’s razor is the principle that the most plausible explanation of events is the simplest. Most often this is true. To account for Donald Trump, however, we need a different hermeneutical instrument. Say hello to Occam’s kazoo: the principle that the most plausible explanation, so far as Mr. Trump is involved, is invariably the stupidest. To understand his motives in...
A prominent Inuk lawyer and activist born in Greenland says U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments about taking control of the territory should be concerning for the entire international community. Aaju Peter, who has lived in Iqaluit since the 1980s, told CTV News Channel on Thursday that she didn’t initially take Trump’s comments about annexing Greenland seriously. “But now, seeing...
Poor Donald Trump. He’s being laughed at, but he thinks it’s a compliment. A year ago, Trump’s favourite newspaper, the New York Post, first made the amusing change from the Monroe Doctrine to the ‘Donroe Doctrine.’ The former was named after American president James Monroe and his policy on the Americas from two centuries ago. The ‘Don’ in the revised...