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Trump administration demanding concessions before formally launching CUSMA talks, sources tell Radio-Canada. The Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told Radio-Canada. "The Americans are setting conditions before negotiations begin," said one high-ranking individual familiar with the matter. Three...

Graham Richardson, Phil Hahn

‘The U.S. has changed and we must respond,’ says PM Carney in direct address

With the United States acting more like an economic foe than an ally under the presidency of Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada’s former strength, built on our bond with America, has become a “weakness” that must be corrected. In a pre-recorded address released Sunday morning, Carney said his intention was to talk “directly and regularly” about his...

Abbas Rana

‘Rushed return’: with Liberals now in a majority, former cabinet staffers and past Grit MPs ‘want back in’

Former B.C. Liberal MP John Aldag wants his party to begin nominating candidates as soon as possible so they can start campaigning and fundraising for the next election. A significant number of exempt ministerial and MP staffers who left in 2024 expecting a Liberal defeat are now returning to Parliament Hill, as the party now holds a majority and Prime...

Mike Le Couteur

New Canada-U.S. advisory council includes former premiers, ex-Conservative leader

Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a new Canada-U.S. advisory council ahead of a formal CUSMA review process this summer. The council is made up of some members from the previous council while adding former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt, former premiers P.J. Akeeagok and Jean Charest, as well as former Canadian High Commissioner to...

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Canada's 1st sovereign wealth fund

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the country's first national sovereign wealth fund on Monday, pitching it as a way for Canadians to invest in nation-building projects. Carney said the Canada Strong Fund will invest in major Canadian industrial projects in areas such as energy, infrastructure, mining, agriculture and technology. The prime minister said the federal government will put up funds...

White House says suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner shooting wanted to target Trump officials

President Donald Trump and top officials were rushed to safety after shots were fired near stairs leading down to the main ballroom.

Spencer Van Dyk

Greer says Canada and U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well’

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says there is a gap between the Canada and U.S. administrations’ trade philosophies. Greer made the comments at a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade agenda on Wednesday. “They’ve done this, but overall they’ve indicated that they want to be trading more, they want to have more trade...

Arrthy Thayaparan

Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' after public backlash

Ford 'felt the heat' after purchase publicized, now 'scrambling' to sell, says interim Ontario Liberal leader. Ontario is looking to sell the $28.9 million private jet that was recently purchased for Premier Doug Ford's use "as quickly as possible." It comes just days after the purchase of the Bombardier Challenger 650 was publicized and confirmed by the province. The decision...

Max Fawcett

Pierre Poilievre is picking a fight he can't win

The old Pierre Poilievre is back. After watching Mark Carney’s Liberals secure a majority government with a clean sweep in last Monday’s three byelections and with rumours of more floor crossers in the offing, the Conservative Party of Canada leader has decided to abandon his kinder and gentler personality reboot in favour of his more familiar brand of populist petulance...

Abbas Rana

‘Breaking down the doors’: Carney’s Liberals draw strong nomination buzz, but critics flag appointment trend

Mark Carney's Liberals risk repeating the Pierre Poilievre Conservatives’ past mistake by bypassing contested nominations, say Liberal sources. With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals now in a majority government and holding a double-digit lead in public opinion polls, the governing party is drawing strong interest from potential nomination candidates for the next election cycle. But some long-time Liberals are concerned...

Evan Dyer

Americans are paying more attention to Canada. Should we worry?

Our neighbours' benign indifference to Canadian affairs seems to have ended as the MAGAsphere takes notice. New Democrat MP Leah Gazan probably thought she was communicating only with a small and like-minded group of Canadian NDP supporters when she rolled out a lengthy acronym during a news conference in Ottawa earlier this month. In fact, she had wandered into the...

Philippe J. Fournier

338 Sunday Update: Conservatives Losing Ground. Not a Liberal surge - that came last winter - but a steady erosion of CPC support is widening the gap.

Fresh off a by-election sweep and a newly formed (if thin) majority in the House of Commons, the federal Liberals have increased their lead over the Conservatives in recent days—not because Liberal support has surged, but because the Conservatives have slipped further back in the aggregate. In our latest episode of The Numbers (recorded Thursday morning), Eric and I discussed...

Marie Woolf

Immigration Minister faces criticism from lawyers after interview with influencer

Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab is under fire from immigration lawyers for conducting an interview where she discussed forthcoming policy with a social-media influencer who also runs platforms for foreign nationals hoping to settle or study in Canada. Ms. Metlege Diab earlier this month conducted a 30-minute interview with Max Medyk about immigration policy, including about a soon-to be announced...

Mario Canseco

Close Race to the Top as Canadians Ponder Best Prime Ministers

There is no clear favourite when Canadians are asked to pick the best stewards of the federal government, a new Research Co. poll has found. The online survey of a representative national sample asked Canadians to select up to four of Canada’s 24 prime ministers as the best—and worst—the country has ever had. Five men are included as the list...

Lauren Krugel

Enbridge gets federal approval for $4B natural gas pipeline expansion in B.C.

The federal government has approved a $4-billion plan by Enbridge Inc. to expand an existing natural gas pipeline in British Columbia, a move one executive says demonstrates a greater "sense of purpose" from Ottawa toward bolstering Canada's status as a global energy exporter. The Sunrise project would add 300 million cubic feet per day of transportation capacity on Enbridge's 3.6-billion-cubic-feet-per-day...

Rob Ferguson

These voters are mad — and they’re wondering where their floor-crossing MP has gone

The sign on the door says “closed” and Jamie Morningstar is not happy. Clutching an envelope of income tax papers, he’s come for help to the constituency office of local MP Marilyn Gladu, who two weeks ago stunned the populace — and Parliament — by jumping from the Conservatives to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals.

Tonda MacCharles

Former Conservative leader explains why he joined Mark Carney’s trade advisory council

Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole gave his successor Pierre Poilievre a heads-up last week he would join Mark Carney’s Canada-U.S. trade advisory council because, he told the Star, he agrees with a lot of Carney’s approach to the U.S., and he wanted no surprises. In his first interview since being named to the panel of outside expert business, investment and...

Ashley Burke

Trump offers immediate tariff relief to aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion

Canada trying to resume formal talks with U.S. on sectoral tariff relief. The Trump administration is now offering Canadian and Mexican aluminum and steel companies immediate tariff relief if they commit to moving production to the United States in the future. The U.S published the notice on Thursday during a tense week that saw both American and Canadian officials publicly...

Alexandre Boulerice, the lone Quebec NDP MP, set to give up seat to run provincially

The only NDP MP from Quebec will be announcing his plan to leave Parliament and run provincially for the Quebec solidaire as early as Sunday. Alexandre Boulerice's planned move was confirmed to La Presse Canadienne today by an internal source from QS, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. When asked for comment, a member of Boulerice's Ottawa...

Marco Vigliotti

‘What’s he ever negotiated?’ — Carney fires back at Poilievre’s criticism on Canada-U.S. trade

Prime Minister Mark Carney is dismissing criticism from his Conservative rival on the Liberal government’s handling of trade talks with the U.S. as a new report suggests that Americans are demanding concessions before restarting negotiations. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters on Tuesday the prime minister needs to stop “showboating” and outline his plan for a trade negotiations with the...

Kate McKenna

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre showcases MPs with new caucus roles

B.C. MPs Chak Au and Tako van Popta tasked with Asia Pacific strategy, property rights. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has announced two new roles for members of his caucus, aimed at developing a strategic plan for the Asia Pacific and responding to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that some fear threatens property rights.

Noah Richler

Trump got his regime change in Canada. Now he may regret it.

Well, the Iranian case is up for debate, but there’s no question your commander in chief effected “regime change” here in Canada. After last week’s special elections, Mark Carney, the prime minister whose elevation Donald Trump helped bring about, has at last secured a parliamentary majority for Canada’s Liberal Party.

Sarah Ritchie, David Baxter

Former Tory leader to Poilievre: forget the floor crossings, focus on policy

The last Conservative leader to be ousted by his party says he's advised his replacement to forget the floor crossings and social media trends as speculation heats up over Pierre Poilievre's future at the party's helm. "My advice to him has always been to put the country first and look at the long term," Erin O'Toole said in an interview...

Sarah Ritchie, Catherine Morrison

Liberals move to take control of House committees now that they've secured majority

The Liberals are moving to take control of House of Commons committees now that they've secured a majority government. House leader Steven MacKinnon says in a social media post that the Liberals will seek to change the standing orders, the rules that govern the Commons, to ensure they have the most votes on committees. Majority governments traditionally hold a majority...

Robert Fife, Emma Graney

Ottawa leans toward new oil pipeline route from Alberta to southern B.C., sources say

The federal government is eyeing a new oil pipeline route in southern British Columbia that some in Ottawa believe would face fewer environmental hurdles and less resistance from Indigenous groups than the northern route Alberta is proposing, two federal sources say. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an memorandum of understanding in November, with the goals...

Stuart Benson

‘Desperate need of renewal’: Liberal MP Erskine-Smith sets sights on federal exit, provincial party revival

Grit MP Nate Erskine Smith says he intends to resign 'shortly' after the provincial nomination for Scarborough Southwest, Ont., is called on May 9 as NDP Leader Avi Lewis passes on the impending Beaches–East York vacancy for his own entrance to the House.

Sarah Ritchie

Poll suggests more Conservative voters now want to replace Poilievre as leader

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests a growing number of Conservative voters want to replace Pierre Poilievre as the party's leader. The poll surveyed 1,640 Canadians, including 590 who voted Conservative in last year's election and asked people if they believe Poilievre should lead the Tories into the next election. Almost 60 per cent Tory voters polled said he sho

Karina Roman

Lower-than-forecasted deficit, new affordability measures expected in spring fiscal update

Finance minister says economic resilience and affordability are priorities. Finance experts predict Tuesday's spring economic update will contain a number of new economic measures aimed at tackling affordability and the wider economic challenges of the country, and they expect the update will show a smaller-than-forecasted deficit. "That'll be the headline number that will likely get a lot of attention," said...

Alberta pipeline could receive federal financing through Indigenous loan guarantee program: energy minister

Tim Hodgson says federal Indigenous loan guarantee program could finance potential Pacific pipeline. Canada's Energy Minister says public dollars "could be used" for Alberta's proposed bitumen pipeline to the Pacific Coast through the federal government's Indigenous loan guarantee program. "With respect to public money, I want to be clear what we have said is that we would support Indigenous equity...

Darren Major

Carney to name new Canada-U.S. trade advisory council, sources say

Current advisory board was struck by former prime minister Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Mark Carney will name a new advisory council on Canada and U.S. trade on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The council will replace the one previously set up by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in early 2025. CBC News is not naming the...

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Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources

‘The U.S. has changed and we must respond,’ says PM Carney in direct address

‘Rushed return’: with Liberals now in a majority, former cabinet staffers and past Grit MPs ‘want back in’

New Canada-U.S. advisory council includes former premiers, ex-Conservative leader

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Canada's 1st sovereign wealth fund

White House says suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner shooting wanted to target Trump officials

Greer says Canada and U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well’

Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' after public backlash

Pierre Poilievre is picking a fight he can't win

‘Breaking down the doors’: Carney’s Liberals draw strong nomination buzz, but critics flag appointment trend

Americans are paying more attention to Canada. Should we worry?

338 Sunday Update: Conservatives Losing Ground. Not a Liberal surge - that came last winter - but a steady erosion of CPC support is widening the gap.

Immigration Minister faces criticism from lawyers after interview with influencer

Close Race to the Top as Canadians Ponder Best Prime Ministers

Enbridge gets federal approval for $4B natural gas pipeline expansion in B.C.

These voters are mad — and they’re wondering where their floor-crossing MP has gone

Former Conservative leader explains why he joined Mark Carney’s trade advisory council

Trump offers immediate tariff relief to aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion

Alexandre Boulerice, the lone Quebec NDP MP, set to give up seat to run provincially

‘What’s he ever negotiated?’ — Carney fires back at Poilievre’s criticism on Canada-U.S. trade

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre showcases MPs with new caucus roles

Trump got his regime change in Canada. Now he may regret it.

Former Tory leader to Poilievre: forget the floor crossings, focus on policy

Liberals move to take control of House committees now that they've secured majority

Ottawa leans toward new oil pipeline route from Alberta to southern B.C., sources say

‘Desperate need of renewal’: Liberal MP Erskine-Smith sets sights on federal exit, provincial party revival

Poll suggests more Conservative voters now want to replace Poilievre as leader

Lower-than-forecasted deficit, new affordability measures expected in spring fiscal update

Alberta pipeline could receive federal financing through Indigenous loan guarantee program: energy minister

Carney to name new Canada-U.S. trade advisory council, sources say

Trending

Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources

‘The U.S. has changed and we must respond,’ says PM Carney in direct address

‘Rushed return’: with Liberals now in a majority, former cabinet staffers and past Grit MPs ‘want back in’

New Canada-U.S. advisory council includes former premiers, ex-Conservative leader

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Canada's 1st sovereign wealth fund

White House says suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner shooting wanted to target Trump officials

Greer says Canada and U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well’

Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' after public backlash

Pierre Poilievre is picking a fight he can't win

‘Breaking down the doors’: Carney’s Liberals draw strong nomination buzz, but critics flag appointment trend

Americans are paying more attention to Canada. Should we worry?

338 Sunday Update: Conservatives Losing Ground. Not a Liberal surge - that came last winter - but a steady erosion of CPC support is widening the gap.

Immigration Minister faces criticism from lawyers after interview with influencer

Close Race to the Top as Canadians Ponder Best Prime Ministers

Enbridge gets federal approval for $4B natural gas pipeline expansion in B.C.

These voters are mad — and they’re wondering where their floor-crossing MP has gone

Former Conservative leader explains why he joined Mark Carney’s trade advisory council

Trump offers immediate tariff relief to aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion

Alexandre Boulerice, the lone Quebec NDP MP, set to give up seat to run provincially

‘What’s he ever negotiated?’ — Carney fires back at Poilievre’s criticism on Canada-U.S. trade

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre showcases MPs with new caucus roles

Trump got his regime change in Canada. Now he may regret it.

Former Tory leader to Poilievre: forget the floor crossings, focus on policy

Liberals move to take control of House committees now that they've secured majority

Ottawa leans toward new oil pipeline route from Alberta to southern B.C., sources say

‘Desperate need of renewal’: Liberal MP Erskine-Smith sets sights on federal exit, provincial party revival

Poll suggests more Conservative voters now want to replace Poilievre as leader

Lower-than-forecasted deficit, new affordability measures expected in spring fiscal update

Alberta pipeline could receive federal financing through Indigenous loan guarantee program: energy minister

Carney to name new Canada-U.S. trade advisory council, sources say

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