Re-elected Conservative Andrew Scheer says the party is taking things “one step at a time” following its election loss, and expressed support for the party’s campaign manager sticking around. “Jenni (Byrne) has a tremendous amount of support, and she did an incredible job,” he told National Post.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has had a positive meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. The meeting is the first since Carney's Liberals won Monday's election and Smith warned the prime minister of any "hostile acts" his new government might take against her province. Smith says they had a lengthy conversation about policies and legislation that are holding back...
The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament. Charlie Angus, who did not run in the last election after representing the northern Ontario riding of Timmins -- James Bay for more than two decades, -- called the election a "catastrophic loss"...
While Quebec Premier François Legault is 'happy' with Carney's victory, his expectations are high. Mark Carney didn’t even know how many MPs the Liberals would have in Quebec on Tuesday morning when he got a taste of what awaited him.
Revised result close enough to be subject to automatic recount. Elections Canada's validation process has revealed a second closely contested riding's winner has changed after Monday's preliminary result — this time from the Conservatives to the Liberals.The unofficial results posted on election night showed that Conservative Parm Gill had won the redrawn riding of Milton East-Halton Hills South by 298 votes.
Favourable views of the United States among Canadians have dropped to the lowest level recorded in the past seven years, a new Research Co. poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, only 26% of Canadians have a positive opinion of the United States, down 28 points since a similar Research Co. poll conducted in July...
Canadian voters are deeply divided when assessing the possible outcome of the 2025 federal election, a new Research Co. “Exit Poll” poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of Canadians who voted in the 2025 federal election, 49% of respondents say they would be “very upset” if the Conservative Party forms the government, while a...
It turns out those nice Canadians are harder than most imagined, but now the campaign is over, how does Carney – a brilliant economic mind – negotiate from here? We all knew Donald Trump can win elections, we just didn’t know he’d be winning them outside the USA. Last Monday, Trump won the Canadian election for Mark Carney. There is...
Do the federal Conservatives have a problem with women? All signs point to yes — but not in the way many progressive voters think. It’s not that they’re afraid of strong women. Rather, it’s that they can’t seem to figure out how to talk to female voters. Throughout the recent election campaign, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives had perilously low support from...
Bruce Fanjoy, the soft-spoken political neophyte who stripped Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of his seat in a stunning election upset, was greeted like a triumphant Roman emperor when he returned to his home village of Manotick on Thursday. “It‘s impressive. You’ve done well,” effused a man with a beard who stopped the new Liberal MP on the steps to a...
If you thought Monday would answer everything, think again. It's left a lot of questions: How will Carney deal with Trump? Will Poilievre hang on to his job after losing his seat, the election, and perhaps even his house? What will happen to the NDP? There are lots of questions for Chantal Hebert and Rob Russo on this week's Good...
Why does Canada exist? That was the unanswered question in the background of the election campaign, placed there by Donald Trump’s insistence that Canada really ought to be an American state. Answering it is urgent for Prime Minister Mark Carney, the election winner. If commissioned to do an economic feasibility study of Canada, a consultant might well end up agreeing...
There was Jagmeet Singh up on the screen, being his affable, if highly practised, self at a virtual meeting with us here on the editorial board of the Star. As he made his case to a roomful of seasoned journalists, a tiny, rebellious corner of my brain urged me to do something ridiculous: ask him a question in Punjabi. I...
In his first news conference since Monday's election, Prime Minister Mark Carney did not shy away from some of the rhetoric and ambition that carried him through the campaign. Canada would be embarking, he said, "on the biggest transformation of our economy since the end of the Second World War." This country's "old relationship" with the United States was "over."...
One of the most impactful results of Election 2025 is that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his Ottawa-area riding of Carleton. He is still the leader of the party and many Conservatives, both within and outside the party caucus, have publicly indicated their support for his continuation in that role. But some are acknowledging that something needs to change. In...
The Canadian’s victory has lessons for mainstream politicians across the democratic world. Mark Carney‘s stunning victory in the Canadian election shows that the political centre can hold when led by a strong, intelligent figure – in particular, when it is led by a figure who is both capable of standing up to right-wing bullies and avoiding being ensnared by the...
As the dust settles on the 2025 federal election, many theories are emerging about why the Liberals won, and why the Conservatives lost. Fingers point at US President Donald Trump, and the impact of his threats to Canadian sovereignty. Pocketbook issues were also a major factor, particularly for younger and less affluent voters, who skewed Conservative, but not enough to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Washington Tuesday to meet President Donald Trump and set the scene for a major negotiation to follow, which Mr. Carney has imagined will be a comprehensive economic/security discussion. Obviously, the top objective now for Carney is to get the immediate tariffs between the two countries off the table, pending a more definitive settlement...
By now, I bet you have seen the video. Our premier — eyes crinkling as he smiles, mood as light and buoyant as a summer Bay of Fundy breeze — on a two-minute-and-43-second journey into the soul of Nova Scotia. It’s all there: donairs and fiddle music, wooden ships and iron men, Sid, Nathan and Viola, George Dixon’s right hand...
I discovered my favourite bit of wartime propaganda recently. In chunky pale blue and red font, the poster reads:“THE SLACKER MUST NOT RULE CANADA. VOTE UNION GOVERNMENT.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing for his first White House bilateral with Donald Trump; he should be sure to pack a thank-you gift for the mercurial president. As evidenced in the election results that have made Carney an elected prime minister largely based on his credentials as an economist and crisis manager, Trump has become perhaps the single greatest...
One hundred and seventy-seven thousand people.That's roughly 3.5 per cent of Alberta's population. It's also the amount of signatures that will be needed to force a separation referendum designed to take those five million people and their land out of Canada.
It doesn’t matter your political persuasion. Tuesday morning, Canada did not get the headline it very much needed.That headline would have trumpeted an expression of firm resolve and electoral clarity. It would have been supported by the usual language of triumph: “decisive victory,” “clear mandate,” “stable majority.”
Canadian electoral politics became like Western Canadian electoral politics this week, by moving from a three-party to a two-party system.Across Western Canada, the NDP competes for power with various centre-right parties. Those centre-right parties evolve and reconstitute themselves to remain electorally competitive across four very different provinces.
If conservatives want future political success, their federal and provincial leaders will need to grasp the fact that they have more in common with each other than they do with the Liberals
It’s time to build. That was Mark Carney’s message to Canadians during the election campaign, and it ought to be one of his top priorities as he continues his job as prime minister. That means more housing, more healthcare and more (heck, any) high-speed rail. But it also means more energy — and more of the infrastructure that moves and...
In the aftermath of the Mark Carney Liberals’ stunning win on Monday evening, pundits and party strategists haven’t been shy about weighing in on what went so wrong for a party that seemed destined to win a massive victory mere months ago. While the Conservative Party measurably improved both its seat count and popular vote on April 28, the election...
They could grind down opponents with enough time. But the Liberals moved too quickly to dump Trudeau and install Carney for the plan to work
Whenever the House of Commons does get together again, it will be bigger, but will it be any less nasty than the last one?A lot of people are saying it should be, including newly elected Conservative MPs such as Chris d’Entremont and Scott Aitchison, talking optimistically in postelection media interviews about their expectations of a tone shift.
Canadian civil-military relations may be headed for a rough ride. President Donald Trump is creating a rift among Canadian political leaders, the public, and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). At issue is whether the CAF should remain closely tied to the United States military and wedded to American capabilities, given Trump’s aggressive rhetoric toward Canada, his overtures toward Russia, and...
As the United States continues its advance and retreat dance on tariffs, one cannot help but recall the adage about cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. Canadians along with people from around the world are scratching their heads in wonder: Why would the U.S. pursue a rapid unwinding of the international order, economic and otherwise, that has served...
What if Mark Carney doesn't end up as terrible a prime minister as many Conservatives expect he will be? Of the many possible scenarios that could have unfolded on Monday evening, not many people seem to have anticipated the one we got: A very impressive Conservative showing, but only good enough for second place, and with party leader Pierre Poilievre...
The 1949 Canadian federal election – the first to be held under “Pax Americana” – gave the Liberal party under Louis St. Laurent 49 per cent of the vote and 191 of the 262 seats at stake in the House of Commons. The outcome, as the final count is still underway, is not as great for the Liberals under Mark...
Pierre Poilievre lost the vote for a constituency he has held for 21 years to a Liberal political neophyte. His populist approach may have been to blame.
Conservative MP Damien Kurek is set to step aside to allow Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to run in a byelection in the Battle River—Crowfoot riding in Alberta. Kurek said he is stepping aside "temporarily" as MP for the riding, which he has held since 2019. The Conservative party confirmed that Poilievre will run in the Battle River—Crowfoot byelection once it's...
As Liberal red and Conservative blue swept across the country in Canada’s federal election earlier this week, NDP orange dwindled. While many voters who left the party turned to the Liberals, many others flipped to the Conservatives — with affordability being among the key factors. In Monday’s federal election, the Liberals are projected to have won 168 seats — enough...
Alberta's government is defending a hefty bill to replace the carpet in Premier Danielle Smith's office, after it became a point of attack in question period.The provincial infrastructure ministry said Friday in a statement that the previous carpet in the 6,500-square-foot legislature space was in poor condition, riddled with "stains, rips and tears" and more than 20 years old.
Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out his priorities at his first postelection press conference on Friday, four days after his party won a minority mandate in the April 28 election.Here's a quick look at the items topping his agenda.
MONTREAL -- A Quebec legislature member who was kicked out of the Liberal caucus in 2022 has returned to the party and is supporting Pablo Rodriguez in the leadership race.
King Charles will visit Ottawa to deliver the speech from the throne at the end of this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday. Speaking at the National Press Theatre, Carney said Parliament will be recalled on May 26, and the King will read the speech outlining the new government's priorities on May 27. The prime minister said he invited...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. It will be the first face-to-face meeting for the two since Carney was first sworn in as prime minister on March 14, and will come before Carney has named his new cabinet following Monday's federal election. The two are set...
The union representing auto workers at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. says the company is planning to reduce shifts, citing U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Unifor, which represents about 3,000 employees at the Oshawa facility, said the shift reduction is “reckless” and that the move will “ripple through” the auto parts supplier network. It is not immediately clear...
Only three incumbent openly queer MPs are headed back to Ottawa after the 2025 federal election. There will be far fewer queer members of Parliament when the 45th Parliament is convened—likely in late May—than there were when the previous Parliament was dissolved for the election. The previous Parliament set a record for openly queer MPs and senators, and featured three...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says King Charles III will open Parliament later this month to begin the 45th Canadian government. “We will have the privilege of welcoming His Majesty King Charles III, who will deliver the Speech from the Throne on May 27,” Carney told reporters Friday in his first press conference since his party’s election win. “Her Majesty the...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said, their first encounter since Carney won an election in part because of an anti-Trump message.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani — who is also a friend of U.S. Vice-President JD Vance — says he's open to helping the government during negotiations with the U.S. administration if the Liberals ask.Since U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration, Jivani has been fairly muted about his close friendship with Vance.
JD Vance’s close friend from Canada is taking back his open invite for the vice president to visit.Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who became close with Vance at Yale Law School 15 years ago, said it would not be “constructive” for the VP to visit his Toronto-area district right now given the Trump administration’s provocations toward Canada.
British Columbia New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan says she's been here before.In 2001, Kwan was a member of the B.C. legislature when the Liberals decimated the provincial NDP government, winning 77 of 79 seats.Kwan was one of only two New Democrats who kept their seats.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to outline the priorities of his new government this morning four days after Canadians voted in the Liberals for a fourth mandate. Carney will speak to the media and take questions at 11 a.m. EDT. He has promised to move immediately to address ongoing trade tensions with the United States and spoke by phone...
Four years ago, the People's Party of Canada was poised to be a thorn in the Conservative Party's side. Riding the momentum of its anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, anti-immigration agenda during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the young party won five per cent of the national vote. It peeled supporters away from other parties — in particular, a more moderate Conservative...
Alberta’s Justice Minister is a long-time friend and related through marriage to a man whose companies’ business dealings with the province’s health authority are now part of multiple investigations. Mickey Amery, who also serves as the United Conservative Party’s deputy house leader, confirmed his relationship to Sam Mraiche, whose businesses are tied to a lawsuit and multiple investigations, including by...
Former federal conservative candidate David Brazil admits that perceptions of Pierre Poilievre was one of his biggest challenges on the campaign trail.Brazil, a longtime MHA and former PC party leader, was soundly defeated in the St. John’s East campaign by incumbent Liberal Joanne Thompson.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidance released today says automobile parts compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade will not be hit with President Donald Trump's tariffs.The 25 per cent auto part duties were set to go in place on May 3.
Former NDP MP Charlie Angus says the party ran an “absolutely disastrous campaign” that “missed the moment” and focused too much on leader Jagmeet Singh, as more New Democrats leave the door open to leadership bids. The scathing assessment — from a prominent New Democrat who placed second in the 2017 leadership race that catapulted Singh to the party’s top...
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's a true Canadian but wouldn't stop a public vote on separating from the country if it came forward.Residents are allowed to trigger provincial legislation for a plebiscite on the issue, Moe told reporters Thursday."Why would you condemn Saskatchewan people that might have an opinion? I'm not about condemning people," he said.
The Conservative caucus will meet on Tuesday to mull over the party’s election defeat and select an interim Opposition Leader to replace Pierre Poilievre amid concerns that the Liberals are trying to poach some of their MPs. Front-runners for the job of Opposition Leader are former leader Andrew Scheer and deputy Conservative leader Melissa Lantsman, according to a caucus source...
The Liberals have dropped one seat after Elections Canada's validation process determined they lost a tightly contested Quebec riding.Terrebonne, just north of Montreal, was one of the last ridings to be called on Tuesday afternoon. The final vote count had the Liberals flip the seat from the Bloc Québécois by 35 votes.
After losing the election and his own seat, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will also soon need to move out of his taxpayer-funded public mansion. Stornoway, a 9,500-square-foot mansion in Ottawa’s tony Rockcliffe neighbourhood, has been the official residence of Canadian opposition leaders since the 1950s. The mansion is maintained by the National Capital Commission. According to the Official Residences Act...
The Conservative Party caucus is set to meet for the first time since losing the federal election with a meeting set for next Tuesday, according to an internal memo obtained by CTV News. The meeting is being called to “exercise provisions set out in the Reform Act contained in Section 49 of the Parliament of Canada Act,” the memo reads...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump's campaign of retribution against the legal profession.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Friday that every American should be concerned about "chilling" suggestions from President Donald Trump's top border adviser that he could be arrested over guidance the Democrat issued to state employees about what to do if confronted by federal immigration agents.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and U.S. officials familiar with the changes.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Consumers can expect higher prices and delivery delays when the Trump administration ends a duty-free exemption on low-value imports from China Friday.
Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful are paying their last respects to Pope Francis at a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome to honour his sometimes turbulent papacy. Applause rang out as the pontiff's simple wooden coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of St. Peter's Basilica and into the sun-filled square by...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elon Musk has been called a Moonshot Master, the Edison of Our Age and the Architect of the Future, but he's got a big problem at his car company and it's not clear he can fix it: damage to its brand.
Pope Francis, whose nearly 12-year papacy ushered in a more open, welcoming Catholic Church that prioritized empathy for the poor and disenfranchised — including Indigenous victims of Canada's church-run residential schools — has died at 88, the Vatican said in a video statement Monday. "Dear brothers and sisters, it is with profound sadness I must announce the death of our...
Meta Platforms Inc. faces a historic antitrust trial beginning Monday that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses.
In an era when AI will enhance everything from crop yields to cancer detection, the central priority should be to accelerate AI adoption to boost Canada's economic prosperity and quality of life for its citizens, not impose roadblocks to innovation with overly precautionary regulation.
The global economy is facing major instability, especially due to the Trump administration’s trade policies, which have permanently disrupted free trade with the U.S. and the global trading system. Canada must act quickly with bold policy changes to stay competitive and find new export markets.
With Canada’s federal election now behind us and the Liberal Party launching into a rare fourth consecutive mandate, Ottawa stands at a pivotal juncture for its Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS).
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Some dismissed it as the “erectile dysfunction” ad. Others laughed it off as a desperate Hail Mary to salvage a faltering campaign in Southern Ontario—specifically in the all-important 905 region.Well, they can stop laughing.Call it the blue belt now. The Conservatives not only held their ground in the 905—they flipped several Liberal ridings.
The world is chaotic. Sovereignty, diplomacy, trade, free speech, science are all under assault. Daily life seems suddenly dangerous. Even the weather report is scary. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” as William Butler Yeats put it in The Second Coming (1919). We’ve entered an era of might makes right. Familiar rules are changing. Among the changes is the...
This will be a very short post on the access-to-information election promises of the five main political parties. That’s because there’s nothing to write about.With the release of the last platform today (Conservative), no party is committing to reforming the dysfunctional Access to Information Act, other than reciting cheap bromides. Some aren’t even offering bromides.
A fast-paced, hard-fought federal election is over — and the Liberals mounted a remarkable comeback to win a fourth mandate, this time with Mark Carney as prime minister. But, his to-do list shows there’s no time to rest. Host Catherine Cullen breaks down Carney’s packed schedule and what it tells us about Canada’s future. Then, a senior writer for CBC’s...
The federal election results are in. The Liberals have won a fourth term with Mark Carney at the helm, besting Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives but falling just shy of a majority government. While the Tories have much to celebrate, Poilievre’s seat loss in Carleton is a major wrinkle that will impact his party for the next few months and possibly years...
At Issue this week: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new minority government faces multiple challenges, but where should he start? What’s next for the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre? Plus, can the Green Party find a role on Parliament Hill? Rosemary Barton hosts Chantal Hébert, Andrew Coyne and Althia Raj.
The strategists panel, Stevie O'Brien, Cole Hogan and George Soule talk about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's fight with Ottawa as well as the next steps for the federal parties. Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz discusses her government's court challenge to Ottawa's clean electricity regulations and it's relationship with the new Carney government.
