These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
The Carney government is replacing former broadcast journalist Tom Clark as consul general to New York City with an oil executive, and naming a former cabinet minister as Canada's envoy in Los Angeles. The Trudeau government appointed Clark, a former CTV and Global journalist, to the post in 2023. The consul general promotes Canada's economic and cultural interests in the...
Sniping over "Liberal lobbyists" working for a B.C. Conservative leadership campaign and federal Conservatives at odds over a new data centre announcement has some Conservatives calling for more discipline in the movement under Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. On Thursday, Caroline Elliott, who finished a close second to Kerry-Lynne Findlay in the B.C. Conservative leadership race, issued a direct response to...
I’m starting to believe that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the subject of an elaborate, prolonged hazing ritual. The frat house in this scenario might have better decorum and nicer furniture than those found on college campuses, but the initiation process is the same: subject the pledge to a succession of humiliating rituals to see if and how long he...
Seventeen months into Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate, as the Liberals continue to enjoy strong public support across the country, a series of senior staffing changes are underway in the Prime Minister’s Office and in the offices of several senior cabinet ministers. At the same time, MPs, ministerial staffers, and political insiders are increasingly speculating that a cabinet shuffle could...
Two other members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s inner circle are getting a boost as part of a staff shuffle prompted by the appointment of his principal secretary to the Senate and a deputy chief of staff departing to run for office. Three sources told The Globe and Mail that Scott Gilmore, currently Mr. Carney’s senior adviser on foreign, defence...
What was supposed to be the start of Premier Tim Houston's speaking tour to chambers of commerce across Nova Scotia ended up with him requiring a police escort. Houston was in Wolfville, N.S., on Wednesday where he was addressing the Annapolis Valley Chamber of Commerce at Acadia University about his vision for the province's economy. When Houston first arrived at...
After weeks of delays and public criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to open at the end of the month, but Canada is set to forego more revenue than initially agreed upon. Housing, Communities and Infrastructure Canada confirmed the long-awaited opening in a statement late Friday. “Canada and Michigan have agreed to open...
We lead two countries that do not have the luxury of relying on old orders of geography. Finland shares a border with a Russia that is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine and actively interfering in other societies instead of reforming its own. Canada shares the world’s longest land border with a United States that is reassessing its priorities...
Antique cannon, $300K in cash also found at former member of Parliament's home, police say. A former federal politician in Manitoba has been charged after police say they seized hundreds of improperly stored firearms from his home last week. Mounties seized 439 firearms found inside Inky Mark's home near the western Manitoba city of Dauphin during a July 7 search...
Pierre Poilievre has found himself embroiled in another dispute within the Tory ranks, this time with a defeated B.C. Conservative leadership candidate who has accused the federal leader of putting personal grievances ahead of the public interest. “Hi, Pierre. Caroline Elliott here. I voted Conservative my entire life. I voted for you in your own CPC leadership race. My family...
Amid anemic poll numbers and messy public infighting, some Conservatives worry that fundraising numbers are also taking a hit as Pierre Poilievre struggles to keep his party together. The Conservatives have long maintained a fundraising advantage over the Liberal Party, while in government and on the opposition benches. That edge is a point of pride for the Conservative Party, which...
A judge has temporarily frozen more than $8.5-million in assets belonging to Jeffrey Rath, a lawyer and prominent voice in Alberta’s separatist movement, and his legal firm after a First Nation alleged misappropriation of money that he was overseeing as the band’s trustee. Alberta Court of King’s Bench Justice Michael Marion issued the freezing order, known as a Mareva injunction...
'There’s a fairly narrow bandwidth that the government is working on internationally,' says Lloyd Axworthy, but other past officials disagree that the PM's method is a 'radical departure,' calling it a 'wonderful opportunity.' Former Liberal top diplomat Lloyd Axworthy says Prime Minister Mark Carney is forgoing consultation in his approach to foreign policy, and that his method is diminishing the...
A senior Trump administration official is publicly criticizing the idea of a collective “middle powers” strategy among American allies and partners, warning it is a “distraction” that could cost them “time, money and political capital.” In a series of posts on X on Tuesday, Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, also pushed back on the idea that...
Dennis Lu, retired from Natural Resources Canada, charged with breach of trust, unauthorized use of a computer. A former federal scientist in an alleged foreign interference case is accused of copying more than 2,000 documents off a shared departmental server to share with China as his lifelong career was nearing its end, CBC News has learned. Dennis Lu faces trial...
Eddie Goldenberg, who served as chief of staff to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, has died. A statement from Global Public Affairs CEO Randy Pettipas, where Goldenberg worked, says Goldenberg died "after a hard-fought battle with cancer." Originally from Montreal, Goldenberg was a lawyer by trade and spent a decade as a senior policy adviser for Chretien before ultimately being...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has no intention of reviving a Liberal caucus in the Senate but is prepared to beef up Conservative ranks in the upper chamber, said the government’s representative in the Senate, Pierre Moreau. In an interview with National Post, Moreau said that he has been in discussions with Carney’s office for some time about the new Senate...
A staff shuffle is under way in the highest ranks of the Prime Minister’s Office after Mark Carney appointed his chief strategist to the Senate and a key staffer decided to step down. Braeden Caley, one of Mr. Carney’s deputy chiefs of staff, told his colleagues on Sunday that he has left the PMO to consider running for the Liberal...
The Law Society of Ontario is investigating charges that onetime Liberal MP may have misappropriated trust money and participated in fraud Ontario’s legal regulator is moving to suspend the licence of lawyer Raj Grewal as the former Liberal MP faces a slew of lawsuits accusing him, the law firm he founded, family members and associates of millions of dollars in...
He's not giving up. He's not backing down. If he was a boxer you'd need to knock him out. The man insists he is not throwing in the towel. He will continue to throw down the gauntlet. Wasn't so long ago Pierre Poilievre had the momentum, drew the huge crowds at rallies across Canada, attracted the young and the working...
The number of people applying for a job in the federal government plummeted last year as Ottawa slashed the size of the public service. Two years ago, there were more than a million applications for jobs in the federal public service. But between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026, that number fell by nearly 30 per cent, to less than 735,000.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said. He was 71. The statement posted on social media early Sunday said his family "appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during...
More than 2,000 individual donors from across Canada have so far contributed to a crowdfunding campaign to restore 24 Sussex Drive, the now derelict official residence of the prime minister in Ottawa. In June, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the launch of a national campaign to raise millions of dollars toward restoring the heritage property.
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre provoked a backlash this week with an ill-advised comment on the outcome of the race for the leadership of the B.C. party of the same name. At a party event in Calgary, Poilievre took note of the presence of the new leader of the B.C. Conservatives, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, hailing her as the “future premier of...
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he promised to restore its commitment to free speech, eliminate its progressive bias and otherwise preserve its role as the “de-facto public square.” Instead, as anyone who has had the misfortune of spending time there knows, he turned it into a right-wing echo chamber — one increasingly populated with spam, crypto scammers and...
Carney said decision was made 'months ago' — when government was touting its work. A corporate watchdog was still accepting complaints right up until the point Prime Minister Mark Carney announced its dissolution — seemingly out of nowhere — despite saying the decision to discontinue the office was made "months" earlier. The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) was introduced...
The Alberta government, Ottawa and five major oilsands producers have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance the multibillion-dollar Pathways carbon capture and storage project. The Pathways project is a condition for a new West Coast oilsands pipeline moving ahead, and would serve to offset some of the carbon emissions that infrastructure would enable. The governments have agreed to pursue...
Serious times call for serious politics. That means serious leaders offering serious solutions. If all this sounds like a campaign slogan for the establishment, you’re probably right. But its rising resonance may well prove the unravelling of the conservative populist rage that has been driving politics in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists the revenue split with the Americans will be minimal. “We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said in an interview with CTV Calgary’s Tara Nelson at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday when asked...
Some legislative changes pass with barely half of all senators casting a vote. Dozens of senators are routinely absent from the Red Chamber and some legislative changes pass with barely half of all members casting a vote, according to a CBC News analysis of attendance records. In the 12 months following the last federal election, the Senate convened for just...