These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Former environment and climate change minister Steven Guilbeault will resign as a member of Parliament, CTV News has learned. Guilbeault, who spoke to CTV News, says he will tell the Liberal caucus about his decision on Wednesday.
Political rhetoric is ramping up ahead of a planned fall referendum in Alberta. “Our view is Danielle (Smith) needs to make a decision: Is she going to support Mister Lukaszuk, or is she going to support her base? What we are saying is she needs to understand that if she abandons her base or betrays her base, there will likely...
PC MPP Caroline Mulroney will be resigning from Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet and will be vacating her seat in York-Simcoe, she said in a letter posted to social media. Mulroney, who serves as president of the Treasury Board and minister of Francophone Affairs, said she informed the premier on Sunday and will officially step down on Friday, June 5. “Serving...
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says tariffs are here to stay, and Canada needs to accept it. Pete Hoekstra does not mince words. A close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, the 72-year-old Republican politician has developed a reputation for speaking bluntly, especially when it comes to the Canada-U.S. relationship. When he welcomed Radio-Canada to the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa for...
Tamara Jansen, the Conservative member of Parliament for Cloverdale-Langley City in B.C., announced the birth of her newest grandchild on social media, who appeared to be named after the late U.S. political commentator Charlie Kirk. “Introducing the latest addition to our family! Little Charlie Kirk Jansen,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “He’s the 23rd grandchild in the...
Letter was sent to PM prior to latest pipeline agreement with Alberta. Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault may be the most outspoken, but he's not the only member of his party unhappy with Prime Minister Mark Carney's environmental rollbacks. Carney signed a new agreement with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith last week that could see construction on an oil pipeline to the...
A standoff between Premier Danielle Smith and her own United Conservative Party on the issue of separation is over -- and the premier has won. Premier Smith and party president Rob Smith had been at odds over where they stand on Alberta staying in Canada ahead of a fall referendum on the matter. The premier says she wants Alberta to...
B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Kerry-Lynne Findlay called a press conference in front of the legislature on Monday to address allegations of election malfeasance during her last federal campaign — only to refuse all reporters’ questions before fleeing in a black SUV with tinted windows. “That’s the decision that was made, and that is all I have time for,” campaign spokesman...
Marilyn Gladu was planning to leave politics when she says a conversation with Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon changed her mind. Gladu had a few offers lined up as she contemplated exiting her role as a Conservative MP, one she had held since 2015, and was pondering a return to engineering, a field she had spent years working in before...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday that a referendum on Oct. 19 will include a question about whether Albertans want, at a future date, to hold a binding referendum on the province quitting Canada. "Kicking the can down the road only prolongs a very emotional and important debate," Smith said in televised speech. "It's time to have a vote, understand...
A high-ranking U.S. defence official says the Pentagon gave Ottawa a classified paper laying out priorities for a collective North American defence pact with Canada, but that Ottawa did not deliver a "credible" response. That lack of response is just one of several irritants the senior Pentagon official said is creating a rift in North American defence co-operation. Canada's delayed...
Washington's decision to pause bilateral body appears aimed at influencing Canada's military policy. Although greeted with a mixture of angst, anger and genuine confusion in this country, it is undeniable that the Pentagon’s move this week to freeze one of the oldest pillars of continental defence co-operation — ostensibly to punish Canada — carried with it notes of dark comedy...
The federal government is entering into contract negotiations with Saab to buy a fleet of surveillance aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday. The federal government has said it’s in the market for six radar aircraft to help protect Canada. Saab produces the planes in a joint partnership with Bombardier, based on the Global...
Stay Free Alberta's Mitch Sylvestre says UCP base angry at premier's pro-Canada stance. The leader of Alberta’s main separatist group is organizing to force either a leadership review of Premier Danielle Smith, or for her United Conservative Party to demand a different referendum question than the one she’s put forth, he told CBC News on Tuesday. Mitch Sylvestre, CEO of...
The president of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party says he believes that a majority of UCP members will vote against remaining in Canada in a referendum this fall, despite Premier Danielle Smith’s campaign in favour of Confederation. Rob Smith, who heads the UCP’s board of directors, said the party will not pick a side in the lead-up to the separation...
Proposal ties Arctic defence to NATO integration. An average of up to 50,000 jobs could be created in Canada over the next five years should the federal government opt to buy the German-made Type 212CD submarine, CBC News has learned. Up until this point in the fierce competition over the navy’s new submarines, both the German and Norwegian governments and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday the Alberta referendum on separation could be a "dangerous bluff," while Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cautioned this is a decision for Albertans to make, not the federal government. Carney, who was the governor of the Bank of England during and immediately after the Brexit referendum campaign, warned that people in the United Kingdom are...
Even amid a more than two-to-one digital advertising deficit and an ongoing six-figure Conservative campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government are maintaining double-digit polling leads heading into the summer sitting break. Yet while some recent polling suggests Liberal support may be softening ahead of looming trade negotiations with United States President Donald Trump and amid growing tensions...
Prime minister promised to look into program that cost over $500K last year. The federal government says it's looking for ways to make an expense program for former governors general more transparent after almost 50 years of secrecy. The program allows the five active former governors general to each bill the government up to $206,040 per year, on top of...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says separatists who are upset that a binding vote on quitting Canada has been put off should focus on the province's fall referendum — rather than campaigning to force a review of her job. Smith announced in a televised address Thursday that a question on the Oct. 19 referendum will ask Albertans if they want to...
Premier Danielle Smith says Albertans will be going to the polls in October to cast their vote on separation - but they won't actually be voting on whether to separate. Instead, they'll be choosing whether or not it's time to hold a binding referendum on quitting Canada. Smith made the announcement in a televised address Thursday night, saying it's the...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he and all Conservative MPs will press for Alberta to remain part of Canada in any separation referendum campaign in the province. "I'm a strong Canadian federalist, a proud Albertan and a proud Canadian. I want a strong Alberta within a united Canada, and all Conservatives will be campaigning for Canadian unity in Alberta," Poilievre...
Alberta's secession movement is unlike other separatist efforts in democratic countries across the world, experts say. Those outside of Canada, including ones that led to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and the 2017 vote on whether the distinct people of Catalonia should leave Spain, all have similar characteristics. "Significant secession movements starts with nationhood, the idea that members of...
Unless you had to go fill your gas tank after the long weekend — like this loser, right here — you could almost be forgiven for forgetting the war in the Middle East is still ongoing, sort of. Especially as the White House seems to be much more focused on us and its other neighbours. The Third Persian Gulf War...
Canadian officials in the Middle East scrambled to help American citizens trying to escape the region after U.S. President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran, the federal government confirmed Wednesday. The assistance, revealed by the U.S.-based publication Semafor, was provided after American officials did not have a facility for U.S. citizens to pick up new or renewed passports required...
There is nothing small about Alberta. It is a towering place, of mountain peaks and prairie sky. It is a powerhouse of energy and agriculture and business. Just for good measure, it also throws the country’s most famous party every July. So why, in such a bold place, is a Captain Canada MIA? I refer, of course, to how quiet...
So I guess we’re doing this, eh? I mean, of course Alberta is holding a secession referendum. It’s Alberta; the province that consistently exhibits the inverse of one of Paul Wells’ most-famed Rule of Politics. To wit: “1: For any given situation, Canadian politics will tend toward the least exciting possible outcome.”
Three-member panel finds no irregularities that affected race outcome. A complaint alleging voting irregularities during a tense Ontario Liberal nomination meeting in Scarborough has been dismissed by a party arbitration committee. Federal Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith launched the appeal earlier this month after narrowly losing the nomination in Scarborough-Southwest to entrepreneur Ahsanul Hafiz by 19 votes. Erskine-Smith levelled a series...
