Conservative MP Scott Aitchison is resigning his seat from Parliament by the end of the year, according to a source close to him. The source tells CTV News that after being in elected office for 30 years, Aitchison will be stepping back to pursue other opportunities. CTV News has also learned that Aitchison informed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about his...
Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump, told Canadian lobbyists on Tuesday to “get the hell out” of the U.S. and cautioned Canada against interfering in U.S. midterm elections. The comments come after a U.S. ban on certain Canadian imports took effect at midnight. Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order in response to Canada’s retaliatory...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population. Carney made the remark in a recent interview with the New York Times, just over a month before the government is required by law to release its immigration levels plan for the next three...
Canada’s federal political landscape remains defined by a significant gap between the Liberals and their rivals, according to the latest weekly tracking. Liberal support stands at just under 50 per cent nationally, while the Conservatives remain in second place and the NDP trailing. The findings suggest that voter preferences have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, with little evidence of...
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation. Poilievre is to deliver a keynote speech for a stronger Alberta within a United Canada. Earlier in the day, he's scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for Conservatives for Canada, a group of...
Canada’s federal political landscape remains defined by a significant gap between the Liberals and their rivals, according to the latest weekly tracking. Liberal support stands at just under 50 per cent nationally, while the Conservatives remain in second place and the NDP trailing. The findings suggest that voter preferences have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, with little evidence of...
A new Liaison Strategies British Columbia Poll finds the BC Conservatives at 40% and the BC NDP at 39% among decided and leaning voters, putting the parties virtually level. The Conservatives are up four points and the NDP down two from Liaison's September 23 release. The close provincial race is unfolding alongside municipal election campaigns, raising the prospect of duelling...
Alberta business leaders have signed on to an open letter from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce warning of the dire economic consequences if the province were to separate from Canada. "We must remain at the table and prioritize relationships, opportunities and stability that have helped make this province and this country prosperous," reads the letter released Tuesday along with an...
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby's election campaign is expecting a boost today as Prime Minster Mark Carney makes an energy announcement in Vancouver. LNG Canada said earlier today that it will go ahead with the multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion of its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion would double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million...
The north remembers. Right now, that’s not just a catchphrase from the hit American television show about dragons and thrones. It’s also a fact for millions of Canadians stuck dealing with a second Trump administration that routinely threatens our cultural sovereignty and political independence with economic warfare. No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 202...
Quebec and Alberta may have more in common than anyone suspected — at least when it comes to seceding from Canada. In both provinces, over 70 per cent of voters oppose separation, a question that is animating both the Quebec election and the Alberta referendum campaign. The two votes come to a head Oct. 5 and 19, respectively, and their...
Had to do it. Had to toss the political puzzler Premier Danielle Smith's way Monday. After all, the latest poll from late last week shows support for Smith and the UCP dropping in Calgary, now trailing Naheed Nenshi in the city by several points. Yes, trailing Nenshi in Calgary. The UCP and NDP are tied in the province.
The return of Parliament and, especially, of Question Period last week underscores an urgent national problem: this country desperately needs a good opposition. Even one. Instead, we get sustained bile, messages hollered from the balcony, smear tactics, and scripted questions delivered with all the genuine passion of a hostage video. This is not just a token nod to the vital...
PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS LEADER Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has a dim view of the province he wishes to make a country. Quebec, he says, is at once threatened by creeping Islamism and a radical leftist cabal bent on prosecuting the nation-to-be for an array of purported crimes, racism chief among them. Aping internet trolls and MAGA Republicans, he has taken to labelling...
It’s easy to miss the holes in Canada’s social support systems until you really need that safety net. While many Canadians take pride in programs such as public health insurance or Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, the current reality often falls far short of their legacy reputations. EI benefits have been outdated for a long time. But now, as the U.S...
“Even when Trump moves on, another Trump will eventually come along. That is why it is better to truly break free and become independent, even if it means suffering for a while.” It’s a sentiment that has become ubiquitous among Canadians over the past year. It has bubbled up in coffeeshop chatter, in flags springing up on front lawns and...
Parliament is back with a substantive legislative agenda that reminds us: Democracy is nothing without accountability. For shame, then, that His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is distracted by internal schisms and online echo chambers. This fall, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives must gain a foothold. The party’s own MPs know it. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman told reporters, “This is not the position...
When Kerry-Lynne Findlay abruptly resigned as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia last Sunday, B.C. Premier David Eby’s New Democrats were almost certainly popping champagne corks. After less than four months of Findlay’s tenure — marked by bizarre backroom machinations, hard-right staff hirings and a catastrophic exodus of 14 MLAs — the official opposition looked broken. With a...
There’s a certain water-is-wet quality to noting the furious pace of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. The busyness feels less like a byproduct than a self-conscious mission statement, even a dare: this is how we roll, so keep up or get left behind. Even by those standards, the past two weeks have been frenetic. There was the investment summit in...
After a year of threatening to seize Greenland by force, Donald Trump has inked a deal to extend indefinite American influence over the autonomous Danish territory. It’s “a dream come true for the United States of America,” the president posted on social media this week. A day earlier, Prime Minister Mark Carney made his own announcement: Canada would be joining...
We’ve known for months that Canada’s Armed Forces have done some thinking about the admittedly remote possibility that Donald Trump’s United States might launch some kind of military action against this country. Anonymous government officials told the Globe and Mail back in January that the military had modelled a “hypothetical” U.S. invasion, apparently for the first time in a century...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has a “very clear mandate” from the April 2025 election. Reinforced by floor crossings and byelection victories, Carney’s majority gives his government the right to pass the Building Canada Strong Act, a sweeping 246-page bill dealing with major projects, environmental assessments and federal labour law. It’s true that we need new ports, rail corridors...
Thanks to the New York Times, Canada now knows that Mark Carney was preparing for the risk of military action arising out of Donald Trump’s 51st-state threats. That’s a major acknowledgment for the prime minister to make — perhaps one that he might have shared first with Canadians?
The province of British Columbia is having an election, barely two years after the last. There is, it is commonly acknowledged, no pressing matter in the public interest that obliged Premier David Eby to call it. He has called the election now, two years before its scheduled date under the province’s fixed-election-date law, for one reason only: to take advantage...
“Our people hate trade deals. Like, they f—king hate them. Do you understand?” The morning meetings between the prime minister’s top advisers were sometimes punchy affairs. But it was also where the government was connected to the political party guiding said government. The verbatim(ish) quote above was the kind of thing said by the person tasked with reporting what the...
It’s hard to imagine a country as large and as resource-rich and as intelligently populated as Canada having made such a small footprint on the world stage for so long. But until now, until these transformational times for our country, that’s been generally the case all the way since 1867. Dwarfed by the powers of Great Britain, which controlled Canada’s...
I would like to play poker for money against the people who still believe what Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre say, because I doubt they can tell a spade from a diamond, a deuce from a Queen. As support for both Trump and Poilievre has diminished — they both have approval ratings of 32 per cent — I am starting...
The Conservative Party of Canada lost the last federal election because they couldn’t put enough distance between themselves and US President Donald Trump, and they seem very determined to lose the next one for the very same reason. Time and time again, they’ve been given opportunities to show their solidarity with Canada and their disdain for Trump and his movement...
Every September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week converges on New York City. The week was once largely confined to the General Assembly. While the general debate remains its centrepiece, high-level week now also involves tens of thousands of delegates, observers, lobbyists, advocates, critics, enthusiasts, and hangers-on meeting in countless venues. There is “pre-HLW”, “post-HLW”, main meetings, side...
Are there lessons for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in this past weekend’s implosion of the short-lived leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party’s Kerry-Lynne Findlay? Findlay, a former caucus colleague of the federal leader, lasted four months in her role before her Sept. 20 self-sendoff. From the outside, her approach seemed to be one fuelled by constant conflict, rage farming...
Mark Carney was in the room when two starkly different visions of the world order were laid before the United Nations General Assembly. One came from the secretary-general of the UN, António Guterres. The other came from Donald Trump.
aniel Robson almost became a budding star in Canadian conservative media. Prolific and quick off the mark, he consistently filed fine opinion pieces calling out Canadian authorities over tighter immigration policies, warning against increasing pro-Palestine protests, pointing fingers at Moroccan dissidents, and at anyone with whom they do business, including a simple Turkish tradesman. There was just one problem: Daniel...
U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada with outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods. Trump's previously announced bans -- which affect some alcoholic drinks, dairy byproducts and motorcycles, among other goods -- came into force at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office said Monday the government's top priority remains "protecting...
As yet, the government hasn’t attempted to impose a deadline on the opening round of debate on Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon’s omnibus bid to further streamline — and accelerate — the project approval process, as well as overhaul the federal labour laws. Dubbed the Building Canada Strong Act by its ministerial sponsor, the 246-page bill — which Prime Minister Mark...
Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives have chosen legislature member Konrad Narth as interim party leader. Narth, who represents La Verendrye in the province's southeast, quickly spoke with reporters after a closed door caucus meeting. He says the party is united and will select a new leader at a later date. His appointment comes after Obby Khan on Monday abruptly stepped down as...
LNG Canada says it will go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion project at its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion will double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million tonnes a year. It is one of the five initial projects that was referred to Ottawa's major projects office last year. LNG Canada CEO Chris Cooper says...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Vancouver today, where he's set to make a major announcement related to the energy industry. According to his official itinerary, Carney will also make an announcement at a later event related to ocean protection. It comes as the Liberal government falls under scrutiny from environmentalists for its new economic and labour bill.
The Liberals may be riding high in the polls now, but their opponents say Prime Minister Mark Carney's strategy for boosting growth offers them unexpected opportunities for political gain. Bill C-39, the "Building Canada Strong Act," proposes giving the government new powers to fast-track major infrastructure projects and end labour disputes, putting it offside with environmentalists and many union members...
A high-profile legislator who says she was "threatened, spat at, disowned, and abused" for crossing the floor to the British Columbia NDP this summer won't be running again in the provincial election. Amelia Boultbee, who was first elected as a B.C. Conservative, says in a statement she can't marshal the necessary resources to give the B.C. New Democrats a "fair...
Manitoba's legislature resumes sitting today, with the Opposition Progressive Conservatives in the unusual position of looking for a leader. The Tory caucus says it will meet this morning to select an interim leader to replace Obby Khan. Khan resigned suddenly on Monday, saying not only is he leaving the job effective today, he is also quitting the PC caucus and...
One of Mark Carney’s closest aides will be Canada’s next ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, with the posting starting in just one week, the government said Monday. Long-time Liberal staffer Angad Singh Dhillon has served as the Prime Minister’s director of operations, outreach and stakeholder relations since Mr. Carney won office in March, 2025. He will become Canada’s ambassador...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is headlining a fundraiser in Alberta in a bid to bolster efforts by his party’s MPs to mount a paid campaign against separation. Mr. Poilievre will speak at a Conservatives for Canada event at an Edmonton airport hotel on Tuesday, along with other stops in the province this week. He told reporters on Sunday that he...
A former commander of the Canadian Armed Forces says he considers the risk of U.S. military action against Canada to be remote, but he acknowledges the fact that risk exists at all as a sign of the rapidly changing global security environment. Retired general Wayne Eyre, who served as chief of the defence staff between 2021 and 2024, made the...
The leader of Manitoba's Opposition not only quit the top job Monday, he quit the entire Progressive Conservative caucus, leaving it in disarray on the eve of a new sitting. Obby Khan fought back tears as he stood in his legislature office and said internal fighting and feuding had taken an intolerable toll. Khan said he'll sit as an Independent...
With just hours to go before import bans on certain Canadian goods were set to take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he thinks the Canadian side will contact him in the next three or four...
The coming high-stakes byelection in Brantford-Brant South-Six Nations, Ont., was already expected to be a tough race for the Conservatives because of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s national popularity, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s move to appoint a candidate rather than nominating one through a contested election has made it even more “challenging,” says former Conservative MP Phil McColeman. “There’s this...
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded early next month and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s name has entered the conversation about this year’s recipient, according to people placing wagers on Kalshi, the popular U.S. prediction market website. As of Monday afternoon, the 61-year-old became one of the favourites to be named the winner on Oct. 9 with around a...
The latest Liaison Strategies Weekly Federal Tracker shows the Liberals leading the Conservatives by 17 points among decided and leaning voters, as Conservative support falls back below 30%. The Liberals are at 46%, up one point from last week, while the Conservatives are at 29%, down two. The NDP holds at 15%, followed by the Bloc Québécois at 6%, the...
Canada's former top military commander considered resigning "several times" during his tenure in battles with the former Trudeau government over the sexual misconduct scandal, and the lack of commitment towards defence spending. Retired general Wayne Eyre's new memoir, Into the Breach: A Soldier's Journey, also peels back the curtain on the internal debate that took place over how to end...
The former leader of the United Kingdom during the Brexit referendum says you can't compare that debate to Alberta's prospective split from Canada. David Cameron largely avoided talking directly about Alberta's separation debate when speaking at an energy leadership conference in downtown Calgary on Monday morning.
Ten New York Times reporters and editors interviewed Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada for an hour last Wednesday at The Times’s office in Midtown Manhattan. It was the first interview Mr. Carney had given to The Times since becoming prime minister last spring. The journalists who participated were: Joseph Kahn, the executive editor; Kathleen Kingsbury, the opinion editor; Philip...
Stelco Holdings Inc. says it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to "ensure the survival" of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales. Stelco says the decision will impact up to 500 employees. In a memo obtained by CBC News on Monday, the company says it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at...
The FBI and RCMP are offering a US$1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Satinderjeet Singh, also known as Goldy Brar, who was charged back in July for the 2023 assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. “Singh should be considered armed and dangerous,” Patrick Grandy, who is the assistant director in charge with...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is promising more funding to support Ukrainians who make it home after being abducted by Russia. Anand announced the funding today in Toronto at a conference where Ukrainian youth and a former prisoner of war have shared harrowing stories of Russian captivity. Anand says Canada is providing $863,000 in new funding to support civil society...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global conference in Toronto on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials. In 2024, the Trudeau government co-launched with Ukraine an international coalition of nations committed to finding and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since it began its full-scale invasion in 2022. Ukrainian authorities cite what they say
Ottawa’s request for the CRTC to review mandatory Cancon payments for online streamers represents “political interference” and risks the regulator’s independence, according to a challenge received by the commission. Last week, John P. Roman submitted a Part 1 application, a copy of which has been obtained by The Wire Report, questioning the legality of the Liberal government’s handling of CRTC...
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States, the U.S. ambassador to China said. David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and...
The United States and China released Monday reciprocal lists of products worth about US$30 billion each that will see tariff cuts, from American hair products to Chinese toys, in a deal expected to boost bilateral trade. The details came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington in his first state visit to the...
Parliamentarians need to independently investigate whether Russia used sonic weaponry against Canadian diplomats in Cuba, where they were allegedly helping U.S. intelligence agencies, and how the diplomats were subsequently treated by Ottawa, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials say. The Globe and Mail reported Saturday that, according to a source, a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are set to share the stage in Calgary today to talk energy. The leaders will be in the city's downtown to talk about how to best get Canada's natural resources to market in a world of fluctuating politics and conflicts.
Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump, told Canadian lobbyists on Tuesday to “get the hell out” of the U.S. and cautioned Canada against interfering in U.S. midterm elections. The comments come after a U.S. ban on certain Canadian imports took effect at midnight. Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order in response to Canada’s retaliatory...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
The U.S. National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems during the November midterms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday.
The White House has spent days fiercely defending three taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump and are nearing at least $1.5 million in public spending, calling them public service announcements like those used in past administrations.
Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump, told Canadian lobbyists on Tuesday to “get the hell out” of the U.S. and cautioned Canada against interfering in U.S. midterm elections. The comments come after a U.S. ban on certain Canadian imports took effect at midnight. Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order in response to Canada’s retaliatory...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global conference in Toronto on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials. In 2024, the Trudeau government co-launched with Ukraine an international coalition of nations committed to finding and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since it began its full-scale invasion in 2022. Ukrainian authorities cite what they say
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States, the U.S. ambassador to China said. David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has put "strategic autonomy" at the forefront of Canada's address to the United Nations General Assembly today. Anand's speech echoes Prime Minister Mark Carney's quest for middle powers to work together by forging deeper ties. She says Canada supports the International Criminal Court, amid Washington's quest to dismantle the institution and while critics argue Canada...
Canada has spent thirty years pretending that internal free trade can be achieved through polite first ministers’ meetings, press conferences, action plans, and the creation of agencies.
The visibility of Indigenous women in business can seem like a relatively new story, but it is not. Indigenous women have been leading in business and trade for centuries across North America. However, Indigenous women became disconnected from these responsibilities when the Crown imposed a sex-based hierarchy with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869. Under that act a First Nations...
As prospective Canadian homebuyers and renters struggle to gain a foothold in one of the least-affordable housing markets in the developed world, housing affordability has become one of the top concerns across the country. Canada’s housing crisis is largely a function of burdensome municipal rules that constrain supply and inflate prices. Meanwhile, misaligned incentives constrain local officials’ willingness to make...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has finally charted a course out of the morass that is 24 Sussex Drive, the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers since 1951. Carney’s June announcement of a private-sector competition to “modernize” the decrepit building, abandoned in 2015 and later put into mothballs, was welcomed by heritage advocates as an end to a political impasse. A...
Artificial intelligence has moved from a promising general-purpose technology to an increasingly consequential layer of economic, social and public infrastructure. It is already raising productivity, expanding access to expertise, accelerating scientific discovery and creating new ways to deliver services. At the same time, AI systems are implicated in fraud, manipulation and cyberattacks and unreliable results and misinformation. The most capable...
The RCMP commissioner has warned the Carney government that proposed reductions in security measures for the modernization of the official residence at 24 Sussex Drive will “result in an increased overall security risk,” says an internal document. The RCMP has been meeting with senior government officials since 2025 to discuss trimming the estimated bill for hardening the property against attacks...
When David Eby called an election in BC, he seemed to be missing one thing -- a reason. James Moore and Gerald Butts are together again for another conversation and this is a natural, Conservative James knows BC and Liberal Gerald knows elections. They discuss that plus their thoughts and the relationship between then Canadian media and the politicians they...
The Globe and Mail has learned that a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia, according to two sources. Now, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials...
Another week that had observers scratching their heads over Donald Trump. The US President gives the Chinese President a red-carpet welcome, then offers Vladimir Putin a seat at an upcoming G20 meeting. Drt Janice Stein tries to make sense of those moves, plus what to believe concerning stories about what Benjamin Netanyahu knew about October 7th before it happened.
Opposition to Bill C‑39 has been portrayed as a battle between new investment and environmental protection and between collective bargaining rights and warding off strikes in essential economic services. But its most consequential changes may be the ones attracting the least attention.
