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Committee says revelations are 'very alarming.' The federal standing committee on public safety and national security has unanimously called for an emergency meeting on the investigation of the Indian government's alleged covert operations in Canada, says MP Allistair MacGregor. Members of the standing committee wrote in a letter dated Tuesday that the RCMP revelations are "very alarming." They are asking...
Montreal municipal politician Laura Palestini will represent the incumbent Liberals in the upcoming byelection for the vacant Lasalle-Émard-Verdun seat. Palestini has served five terms on Montreal's city council. Campaign co-chair Soraya Martinez told Radio-Canada Palestini was handpicked by the Liberal Party to run. The seat became vacant with the resignation of former justice minister David Lametti in January.
A global tech outage hit services and companies in multiple industries around the world on Friday, including in banking, travel and broadcasting in Spain, Turkey and Australia. Global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike told NBC News that the outage is related to an issue in the most recent update, which is now being rolled back. The problem crashed Windows machines and servers...
Canadians will gather across the country today to mark Canada Day, a celebration of this country's 157th birthday. Celebrations are scheduled from coast to coast to coast on the national holiday. People in Newfoundland and Labrador will mark Memorial Day on Monday as well.
Canada is imposing sanctions on "extremist" Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada announced Thursday. "The sanctions are a response to the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank," Global Affairs said in a news release.
Jim Peterson, a retired Toronto MP and former Liberal cabinet minister, has died at the age of 82. "Our Jim left us this morning," his family said in a statement provided to CBC News on Friday evening. "He will never be replaced in our hearts and he will live on forever in our memories. His big brain and his big...
The head of B.C.'s public service has announced that there is a high degree of confidence a state or state-sponsored actor attempted to breach government systems in a cyberattack. Shannon Salter, head of the public service, announced that three separate attempts were made to breach government systems over the last month.
Nova Scotia Justice Minister Brad Johns has resigned from cabinet. Premier Tim Houston made the announcement in a news release sent Friday evening. The resignation comes a day after Johns's comments on domestic violence in Nova Scotia. The minister said he doesn't believe it's an epidemic — a position that's contrary to the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commissions's final report.
Tuesday's federal budget will include a tax increase on the richest Canadians, sources tell Radio-Canada. It's not clear exactly what form the tax measure will take but senior Liberal sources have told Radio-Canada that it will affect less than 1 per cent of Canadians. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers have been on a countrywide tour in recent weeks...
The Manitoba government has confirmed it intends to ask Ottawa to remove the carbon tax from this province. Following a meeting Thursday between Manitoba's premier and federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre, a news release put out by the Conservatives thanked Wab Kinew for calling on Ottawa to get rid of the backstop. Kinew, however, has only previously said the province...
Ontario's premier called on the federal government to require public servants to work in the office more frequently to revitalize the city's downtown — but neither the government department responsible for public servants nor one of its main unions appeared moved by the request. "They have to get people back to work," Premier Doug Ford said during a press conference...
Four major Ontario school boards are taking some of the largest social media companies to court over their products, alleging the way they're designed have negatively rewired the way children think, behave and learn and have thus disrupted the way schools operate. The public district school boards of Toronto, Peel and Ottawa, along with Toronto's Catholic counterpart, are looking for...
The commissioner of the RCMP says the police service he oversees is different from the one that was denounced a year ago for failing to keep Nova Scotians safe during the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history. After a gunman killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, in Nova Scotia in April of 2020, an inquiry was struck to...
The federal NDP and the Green Party are urging Ottawa to reopen the multi-billion-dollar federal Indian day school settlement agreement. The opposition lawmakers issued the call in response to a CBC News report about day school survivors who say they were re-traumatized by the compensation process and shortchanged. "I know that what they're saying is completely true," said Lori Idlout...
Six people including a mother, her four young children and a family acquaintance were killed inside a townhouse in the south Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven late Wednesday night. During a media briefing Thursday afternoon, Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs said there were initially two calls to 911 around 10:52 p.m. Wednesday.
After several months of asking the Quebec government in vain to increase its family reunification capacity, Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says it's time for his government to pull rank. Miller says his ministry will begin issuing permanent residence permits to those looking to unite with their loved ones in Quebec, regardless of the province's self-imposed cap on applicants, which...
The mayor of Gatineau, Que., says she's stepping down effective immediately. France Bélisle made the announcement Thursday morning at a news conference at City Hall, saying she is leaving to preserve her health and integrity.
Mary Moreau has officially been welcomed to her seat on the Supreme Court of Canada as its newest justice. Moreau, a francophone, has served for decades in the Alberta court system, including as the head of the Alberta Court of King's Bench from 2017-23. She took her seat on the bench during a Monday ceremony in Ottawa that featured a...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford will sign an agreement on Friday that details how the province must spend billions of extra federal dollars earmarked for health care. The deal stems from a national health funding summit in February 2023, when Trudeau's government offered to boost the Canada Health Transfer. Although Ontario and the federal government reached...
Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Rakhi Pancholi has entered to the race to replace Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP. Pancholi, who was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in 2019, joins Calgary-Mountain View MLA Kathleen Ganley and Edmonton-Glenora MLA Sarah Hoffman in the leadership race. Pancholi launched her campaign Thursday morning in a two-and-half-minute video posted to her campaign website...
Political strategist Tim Powers says Ken McDonald may have helped his future prospects in politics by speaking against his own leader in an interview with Radio-Canada — but those future prospects may not be with the federal Liberals. McDonald, the MP for the Avalon riding, said in a recent interview he believes there should be a leadership review within the...
Progressive Conservative MPP Parm Gill resigned from his seat and Ontario Premier Doug Ford's cabinet on Thursday to become a candidate for Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives Party. In a statement Thursday evening, Gill said "many members" of his community have urged him to join Poilievre's team and represent the Milton riding on a federal level.
Seven months after announcing he had been diagnosed with tongue cancer, Derrick Bragg, a Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister and MHA for Fogo Island-Cape Freels, has died. He was 59 years old.
Longtime New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent has died at 87. The Broadbent Institute announced his death in a statement Thursday afternoon. "Our country has lost a fierce champion for ordinary Canadians, an intellectual who strongly believed in building a good society," the statement said.
The federal government is looking into creating a national plastics registry that would track the lifecycle of plastic items in the economy. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced Tuesday that Ottawa has launched public consultations to gather input on how such a registry could work.
A youth in Ottawa has been charged with terrorist-related offences that allegedly targeted Jewish people, the RCMP said on Saturday. The Mounties said in a statement that the suspect was arrested on Friday and that their age prevents any further release of information about the individual. The RCMP said in the release that the suspect is alleged to have instructed...
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the downtown Vancouver hotel where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was speaking Thursday night to pressure him to cut off Canadian military support for Israel. Dozens of demonstrators lay under white sheets outside the Westin Bayshore hotel in Coal Harbour, where Trudeau was speaking at a private Liberal Party fundraiser.
A heated exchange in the House of Commons thrust one south Ottawa mushroom farm into the spotlight earlier this week. During Wednesday's question period, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sparred over Bill C-234, which seeks to remove the carbon tax from natural gas and propane used in farming.
Canadians and other foreign nationals who were aiming to leave Gaza via an Egyptian border crossing at Rafah on Saturday won't be able to do so and have been instructed to stay away from the area until further notice. CBC News has viewed a message that Israeli officials sent to several Western embassies indicating that Saturday's potential window for crossing...