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As wildfires rage across much of the Atlantic provinces, frustrations are increasing over government decisions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to ban people from the tinder dry forests on crown land. The ban prevents people from enjoying a stroll through the woods, camping, fishing or driving their ATVs on trails, as part of the effort to prevent human activity...
Canada’s ambitious strategy to turn to the European Union to wean itself off American dependency for military equipment could be difficult to deliver and result in political fallout, warns former defence and security officials in a new report. After assessing the political and fiscal risks of the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Brussels...
To get the federal government’s procurement process on the fast track and unclog its multiple layers of red tape, the independent Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) is recommending an “overhaul” of the system. “We can no longer sustain Band-Aid solutions. We have to address the foundational issue that our system is too complex and it’s not working for all...
Mark Carney’s ability to balance Canada’s economic agenda while promoting its democratic values will be tested at the upcoming G7 summit after he expanded the invitation list to nations implicated in international murders. The prime minister ignored questions from reporters about why he was inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Kananaskis, Alta....
After the Conservatives lost a fourth straight election, Pierre Poilievre is tasked with convincing supporters that he is still the right person to lead the party to victory in the next election, despite losing his own seat. Poilievre’s path to returning to the House of Commons requires replacing an elected member of Parliament in a yet-to-be-called byelection in rural Alberta...
With just four days left before voters head to the polls, Pierre Poilievre made his first campaign visit to Saskatchewan in a province wrapped in Conservative blue. On Thursday evening Poilievre basked in the applause of hundreds of supporters who crowded into a warehouse in Saskatoon to hear him give his stump speech. Poilievre opened with new material after Liberal...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has released his party’s costed platform, which Poilievre says includes an estimated $75 billion in tax cuts and $35 billion in new programs over the next four years. Poilievre claims that the Conservative platform will also save Canadians more than $56 billion between 2025-2029. Putting in place their programs will also require the Conservative government to...
Two hours after sunrise on Easter Sunday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a campaign stop at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., to criticize the price tag of the Liberals’ election platform, which would cost Canadian taxpayers $130 billion in spending. “Mark Carney is worse than Justin Trudeau,” said Poilievre, standing in the produce aisle of a Fruiticana store to...
The two sisters, both silver haired and in their sixties, arrived at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Sault Ste. Marie later than they wanted. The line had already snaked around the corner of The Machine Shop – an event venue housed in a historic paper mill. Among the crowd, parents with toddlers bundled in toques, and burly steelworkers dressed...
As Mark Carney enters week three of his campaign to be prime minister, the festering issues of foreign interference and corporate tax havens have exposed vulnerabilities in the Liberal Party and its leader, as he swings through British Columbia. Last Sunday, Carney stepped off his newly branded Liberal plane with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, at his side. She would...
As Canadian officials convene in Washington, D.C., to prove progress is being made at the border ahead of next week’s tariff deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump says he plans to impose sweeping 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico on March 4, claiming “drugs are still pouring into our country.” “We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm...
At the America’s biggest annual Republican gathering, Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to Donald Trump, is hosting his War Room talk show from the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Convention. Dozens of people surrounded his CPAC set to watch his broadcast and to snap selfies with the man who helped first install Trump in the Oval Office in 2016...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s launch of new steel and aluminum tariffs targets Canada disproportionately and puts the country’s premiers on their back heels as they arrive in Washington, D.C. to defend against a widening trade war. Trump’s executive order will take effect on March 4, and imposes 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium on all countries. Canada is...
Canada’s latest weapon in fending off a potential trade war with the United States is a three-minute border security video delivered in an act of quiet diplomacy.
After half a decade of testing and an investment of nearly $300 million, the federal government is still years away from fully implementing its next-generation pay and human resource cloud platform to replace the problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system. Moving more than 360,000 federal workers onto a cloud-based system will require hiring more contractors and re-opening union agreements to streamline pay...
The federal government risks jeopardizing the economy unless it meets its NATO military alliance spending obligations within the next five years, says the Business Council of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed to reaching the two per cent target by 2032. But the business council, which represents the CEOs of Canada’s largest companies, wants to reach it by 2030.
When Donald Trump vowed to clamp down on immigration as part of his campaign for president of the United States, the RCMP was listening closely. Canada's federal police force has been preparing for months on a contingency plan for a potential massive influx of migrants across the border following Trump's promise of "mass deportations" of millions of undocumented immigrants(opens in...
Canada needs to double its annual military spending in order to meet its NATO requirements, new Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) projections show. After facing months of pressure from allies, the prime minister announced at the NATO Summit that Canada will meet its commitment of two per cent of its GDP by 2032.
In the last hours of his first visit to Laos, the prime minister watched two fishermen cast bamboo nets into the muddy waters of the Mekong River. They were trying to catch tiny fish, each the length of a man's index finger, to later use as bait for something much more substantial. The image of Justin Trudeau in rolled sleeves...
Unless policies or technologies change, the cost of electric vehicles (EVs) needs to decrease by 31 per cent if Canada to wants to reach its sales target of 60 per cent EVs by 2030, according to a new report released Thursday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
Premiers are urging the federal government to move up its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence spending by 2032. The calls are happening at Canada's Premiers summit in Halifax, where the future of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship has been discussed amid the looming U.S. presidential election in November.
Canada says it expects to reach its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence by 2032. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. For over a year, Canada has faced increasing pressure and criticism from alliance members to boost defence spending.
After facing months of pressure, senior government sources tell CTV News that Canada will unveil its plan on Thursday on how to reach its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence. Canada is currently the only member of the alliance without a timeline to reach that target. According to NATO's latest figures, Canada is on...
Since arriving in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has faced a barrage of criticism about his government’s lack of a plan to meet the NATO pledge of spending two per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Washington, D.C. to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but it’s a domestic focus on trade that is dominating his schedule on the first day of his visit. The NATO summit officially begins on Tuesday. Before the opening NATO event tomorrow, Trudeau will have already participated in...
More than a million people are expected to visit the Calgary Stampede making it an ideal event for political photo-ops. But this year, only Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be saddling up for the event, while both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will stay away. Political watchers say the absence of Trudeau and Singh are calculated...
Growing political discontent in a Liberal stronghold could lead to a Conservative breakthrough in an Ontario byelection that may put Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership to the test. On Monday, voters in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul's will head to the polls to elect a new member of Parliament. The federal seat was previously held by Carolyn Bennett before she...
The Canada Border Services Agency is scrambling to find space to hold high-risk detainees that are set to be transferred from provincial jails in June. There are delays in retrofitting CBSA detention centres and training staff which may force the agency to release foreign nationals deemed a flight risk or a threat to public safety, or both.
Former Mountie William Majcher has made a career out of deception and dancing on the edge of danger. As a young officer, he nearly died after being jumped from behind and smashed repeatedly in the head with a steel bar. After transitioning into undercover work, Majcher was planted in the same cell as an Air India terror suspect. He infiltrated...
The trial of Cameron Ortis, a former senior RCMP intelligence official accused of passing on top-secret national security data, is set to begin on Tuesday.