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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life, behind closed doors. At an emergency meeting Monday...
The opposition Conservatives say they will maintain defence budget increases planned under the current Liberal government if they take power...
Carbon pricing — including the Liberal government’s carbon levy-and-rebate scheme — had a small impact on the rate of inflation...
In Donald Trump’s world, it’s all rather straightforward. If a country — like, say, Canada — exports more to the...
A Liberal MP said he was threatened with unspecified “consequences” if he votes against the government’s proposed $250 cheques, an...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top national security adviser warned earlier this year that the RCMP’s personal protective service was facing...
The new funding is set to be unveiled Friday, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce that Ontario...
Several GTA mayors say they support a new request from Mississauga for the federal government to provide all funds in...
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser is exposing another Opposition Conservative MP who has voiced a desire for federal money from...
One of the dissenting Liberal MPs calling for Justin Trudeau to resign is expressing disappointment over how quickly the prime...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all smiles as he walked into a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, where dissidents in...
With no new campaign director, no new ad campaign rollout, no major cabinet shuffle, and no change at the top...
A Liberal MP from Toronto says he has been unfairly blocked from speaking in the House of Commons for seven...
The federal government is off to a slow start on its 20-year plan to improve Canada’s contribution to the North...
Premier Doug Ford’s push to limit the construction of bike lanes in Ontario municipalities is facing criticism from some Liberal...
In an effort to catch up to the Conservatives’ dominant fundraising machine ahead of the next federal election, Justin Trudeau’s...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could see his government fall next week after the Liberals offered the Conservative Official Opposition the...
One of the first things many MPs saw when they returned to Parliament Hill on Monday was a large, flapping...
A combative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he’s not going to resign as Liberal leader if his party loses...
Trailing in the polls and suddenly facing the prospect of an early federal election, many Liberals say there is a...
When inflation was spiking and straining budgets after the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Liberal government was eager...
In the unlikely, but unfortunately not impossible event of nuclear war, Canada would be one of the worst places on...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she feels she has enough support to continue doing her job, after the Star reported...
Upset over anonymous grumbling by their colleagues in the media, some Liberal MPs are demanding it stop and expressing support...
Last week’s tiny cabinet change did nothing to appease those in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus who think a broader...
Justin Trudeau has “full confidence” in his long-time political lieutenant, Chrystia Freeland, the Prime Minister’s Office said Thursday, in response...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was still trying to figure out how to show when Canada can finally hit its...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pushed to make serious changes to rescue the Liberals’ political prospects during a call with...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been working the phones to tamp down any caucus discontent, as his team convened a...
Shock and disappointment over Monday’s byelection defeat in midtown Toronto is still rippling through federal Liberal circles, with some insiders...
Federal Liberals are now grappling with the fallout of Monday’s stunning byelection in Toronto, where Pierre Poilievre’s Tories dealt them...
Inside the Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday, John McKay was having a bit of a Tom Sawyer moment. The veteran...
Star analysis finds it has happened more than 100 times since 2016, when foreign governments covered more than $830,000 in...
Ever since the United States said it will slap steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles last month, attention has turned...
MPs named by top-secret intelligence as aiding foreign interference in Canadian politics continue to go unidentified by Prime Minister Justin...
The federal government is considering the creation of a new public foundation to honour Brian Mulroney, the former Progressive Conservative...
The way former Liberal cabinet minister Catherine McKenna sees it, change is coming. Either her party supplies it, or they...
A new poll suggests Canadians hold mixed views about whether a world war is on the horizon, but that many...
He would repeal incoming federal electricity regulations. He would scrap Liberal clean fuel standards. And, yes, he wants to “axe...
Of a slate of potential Liberal leadership contenders largely unknown to the public, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia...
Describing how politics has grown so “toxic” and “hyperpartisan” that she is often afraid to appear in public, Liberal MP...
The federal government is frustrated by difficulties in getting banks to adopt its preferred name for carbon price rebates as...
The Liberals’ latest national defence plan was a full two years in the works, yet leaves major questions unanswered about...
he federal government has failed to spend roughly $15 billion that it committed to fight climate change since Justin Trudeau’s...
It’s 2014, and Chrystia Freeland is laughing on the streets of London. In classic Freeland fashion, she’s casually strolling with...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was among the Sikh Canadians who were warned about potential threats against their lives after the...
It’s the climate policy at the heart of the political storm around carbon pricing. And now a new report concludes...
The federal government hasn't decided how it will refund more than $3.6 billion in carbon price revenue to businesses and...
Former prime minister Kim Campbell called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a "liar and a hate-monger," and suggested she won't vote...
It was January, and it was the closest the New Democrats had ever come to ditching the deal that keeps...
Who wins Monday's byelection in the riding of Durham likely won't set off a political earthquake in Ottawa — but...
It has been a season of political discontent for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon price scheme. And now his government's...
Canada is open to sending a limited number of military personnel to train Ukrainian troops within Ukraine, so long as...
On paper, she seems to be exactly what the Canadian military needs. An enthusiastic would-be recruit, married to a current...
A senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending her use of crude, sexual language in an online exchange...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't believe in slashing federal spending to please business groups or opposition Conservatives, raising...
The federal Liberals are turning their minds to how they can strategically benefit from the looming shadow of Donald Trump...
One of Canada's leading business groups has accused the federal government of eroding the country's economic standing through its failure...
Apparently, being Liberal isn't as fun as it used to be. Sean Casey, the long-serving MP for Charlottetown, will admit...
Outgoing Toronto Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett will soon be named Canada’s next ambassador to Denmark, the Star has learned. The...