The federal Liberals will announce a new leader on March 9, the party announced late Thursday, giving potential candidates just two weeks to decide to run and potential voters less than three weeks to join the party in order to vote. The National Board of Directors met Thursday night to decide the initial rules for the race to race to...
Chrystia Freeland and former central banker Mark Carney are poised to seek the Liberal leadership while Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie...
A day after many Liberal MPs argued that their next leader must speak French and understand Quebec, one of their...
A federal Liberal spokesman says the party can and will remove "fraudulent profiles" from its list of electors eligible to...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he thinks U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is drumming up drama on Canadian statehood to detract...
Following the announcement that Justin Trudeau will step down as Prime Minister and Liberal leader later this year, we conducted...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed earlier this week that he will step down as Liberal leader, proroguing parliament in the...
When members of the Reform Party met in Ottawa in 1999, they didn’t agree on much. But when the party’s...
It’s taken a mind-bendingly bizarre set of circumstances to turn Doug Ford into the beau ideal of Captain Canada. But...
As a giant of industry and the world's richest man, Elon Musk wields influence across the global economy. He's now...
In the face of a potential tariff war, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton says “Canada...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just announced that he has instructed the Liberal Party to start a leadership contest to...
Donald Trump spent Christmas day publicly raging through his rolodex of political enemies. Canada remains near the top of his...
Western democracy has weathered severe tests in the past, from fascism to Bolshevism. The United States, though often late to...
This time last year, when I was doing final edits on my book about Justin Trudeau, I asked my editors...
The federal Liberal leadership race is gearing up to be a contest between formers: former Bank of Canada governor Mark...
It’s difficult to recall, watching a defeated man finally yield to his fate outside Rideau Cottage this week, just how...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, dean of the G-7, has outlived a lot. His tenure has coincided with the terms...
2025 was going to be an election year in Canada regardless of what happened. There had been an open question...
Immediately after Justin Trudeau announced he was resigning as prime minister, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sent out a spicy statement...
If your next-door neighbour leaned over the fence and said he wanted your yard, you’d conclude he was obnoxious, crazed...
When Steve MacKinnon, Justin Trudeau’s minister of employment, was asked two days after Trudeau announced his intention to resign whether...
Alberta’s Premier has long demonstrated her affinity for the close, but foreign, entity of America. Sadly, Danielle Smith has also...
It started as a joke, but it’s not funny anymore. At a rambling press conference on Tuesday, US president-elect Donald...
END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for...
In the spring of 2013, Justin Trudeau, then newly elected as leader of the federal Liberals, gave a speech at...
In an interview in December 2022, Justin Trudeau allowed himself to talk about legacy. He has typically avoided entertaining such...
Pierre Poilievre won’t be able to manage Donald Trump, either. In one fell swoop, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement...
Canada finds itself in a perilous moment. Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation as Prime Minister, effective when a new...
Canadians do not want “a government that suspended work when the going got tough,” Justin Trudeau once proclaimed. On Monday...
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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of...
Justin Trudeau, not to put too fine a point on it, looked like hell when he came out to announce...
On the day he finally conceded to the obvious, Justin Trudeau looked appropriately humbled. For maybe the first time, he...
He was late as usual. He sounded sad. The wind blew his script away. He said more or less what...
“I will always be motivated by what is in the best interests of Canadians,” Justin Trudeau declared, in announcing his...
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his focus in the next federal election will be on ending the carbon...
A long-serving Newfoundland and Labrador member of parliament is poised to announce that her long political career is coming to...
Most of the attention on last month’s fall economic statement centred on the bombshell resignation of then-finance minister Chrystia Freeland...
Ottawa MP Chandra Arya — who announced on Thursday that he would be running to replace Justin Trudeau as the...
OTTAWA -- Newfoundland MP Gudie Hutchings says she's not planning to run in the next federal election.
China says it’s willing to deepen economic relations with Canada as this country’s trading relationship with the United States hits...
A majority of Canadians want Ottawa and the provinces to team up against U.S. tariff threats, according to a new...
Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t find president-elect Donald Trump’s jibes about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state very...
At 20 years old, Pierre Poilievre already had a roadmap for Canada. Canada's Conservative Party leader - now 45 -...
Furey plans to attend Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20. In the wake of mounting threats from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump...
While taking questions after announcing he would be stepping down as prime minister on Monday, Justin Trudeau was asked to...
An outgoing Progressive Conservative MPP in Ottawa is apologizing for a social media post that criticized one of the people...
We can finally stop asking "Will he or Won't he?" because he did. He called it quits and now the...
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he would be “committed” to the consumer carbon tax should he become...
A majority of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to step down, yet his announcement this week has not...
Among the most senior officials in Ottawa, there is a document circulating that outlines specific details about how Canada could...
Liberal MP Judy Sgro says she's 'doing everything' she can to get a 'draft Dominic' LeBlanc movement going to change...
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A growing chorus of Liberal MPs are calling on their party's executive to guard the upcoming leadership race — whose...
New polling shows that Justin Trudeau’s impending resignation has done little to immediately reverse the Liberals’ sliding electoral fortunes, as...
In the face of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s threat to acquire Canada, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is touting the...
After nearly a decade in power, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally bowed to a chorus of criticism that had...
Several federal cabinet ministers say Canada should not overreact to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's comments about annexing Canada -- but...
As Liberals gear up for a leadership race—and, ultimately, an election—a messy feud is brewing down south between MAGA’s populists...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's bid to delay his sentencing in his...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Someone inside Fox News gave Donald Trump's presidential campaign the questions he would face ahead of a...
Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced changes in content moderation on Facebook and Instagram long sought by...
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PARIS (AP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron extended an olive branch to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, declaring that...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's decision to block...
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In 2024, a record number of voters across Asia exercised their democratic rights and, in many cases, used the ballot...
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Freedom-of-information (FOI) regimes across Canada withered in 2024, as courts and governments tightened the noose around openness and transparency. Here...
Treasury Board of Canada released fresh government-wide statistics last week about citizens’ use of the federal Access to Information Act...
Canadians watched in horror as Elon Musk bought influence in the United States, thanks in large part to the country’s...
At Issue this week: With federal politics in turmoil, who’s going to manage U.S. president-elect Donald intensifying threats against Canada...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation earlier this week came after months of people calling for him to step down. How...
This week on The Numbers, we discuss the impact of Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister and Liberal leader, as...
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