Then there were five: Liberal race narrows with Carney the choice of caucus
By day’s end on Thursday, the race to become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — and...
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Canadians overwhelmingly support retaliation to Trump tariffs: poll
An overwhelming majority of Canadians think their country should fight fire with fire if Donald Trump carries through on his...
Karina Gould set to enter Liberal leadership race: source
Government House Leader Karina Gould is set to enter the Liberal leadership race, a source close to her confirmed to...
Mark Carney makes his leadership pitch to a skeptical Liberal caucus
The novelist Margaret Atwood once met a neurosurgeon who told her he was a big fan of hers, that he’d...
Chrystia Freeland, popular with some MPs, criticized by others
Chrystia Freeland, now a member of the Liberal backbench, is the pick of several of her backbench peers to succeed...
Halifax school asked military to ditch the uniforms for Remembrance Day
An elementary school in Halifax — home to Canada’s largest military base — is backing down on a request it...
The Liberal revolt is about Trudeau, communications, and the carbon tax
The hopes of an anxious Liberal caucus were first raised at the end of the summer of 2022 in the...
ISIS suspect came to Canada on student visa in June 2023, minister says
A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec as he was allegedly on his way to New York to conduct a mass...
Mark Carney tapped by Liberals to lead new task force advising Trudeau
Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will take on a new role as chair of a Liberal Party task...
ANALYSIS: Singh decision about cutting NDP ties to Trudeau, not an election prelude
There was likely no New Democrat more relieved to learn that federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had ripped up his...
In Northern Ontario, peril for Liberals, opportunity for Conservatives, NDP
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre opens a week of campaigning for votes in Northern Ontario on Monday with a rally in...
While Liberals chase Carney, Conservatives crow about a blue-collar candidate
The Trudeau Liberals and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney have been engaged in the strangest of dances for...
Under Trudeau, the civil service has grown twice as fast as Canada’s population
The size of the civil service has exploded during the Trudeau Liberals’ nine years in power: growing more than 4...
In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre went to church last Sunday, not once, not twice, but three times — to three evangelical...
NDP MP raps Conservative over ‘fake news’ video
NDP MP Matthew Green says Conservative MP Branden Leslie should apologize for a video published on Leslie’s social media accounts...
Conservatives ask interference inquiry judge to rule elections were flawed
The Conservative Party of Canada has urged the judge overseeing the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference to conclude that Prime...
CSIS intel suggests China attempted to funnel $250K, possibly for election interference
CSIS director David Vigneault says his agency had intelligence ahead of the 2019 federal election that the government of China...
4 premiers expected to testify at committee against carbon price increase
Four conservative premiers are expected to tell a House of Commons committee this week that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should...
Harper-era cabinet minister Ed Fast will not seek re-election
Ed Fast, the long-serving Conservative MP for the Lower Mainland riding of Abbotsford, B.C., will not seek re-election, he says...
A closer look at the growing diversity of Conservatives under Poilievre
Jamil Jivani, earlier this week, won the right to be the next member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of...
Ottawa ends pandemic programs, shifts priorities in $449B spending plan
The federal government’s spending priorities are shifting dramatically in the next fiscal year as federal programs put in place during...
Canadian authorities cautious, nervous about AI in political campaigns
As American regulators and state legislatures quickly implement new rules governing the use of artificial intelligence tools in this presidential...
What’s driving New Democrats in the West away from Jagmeet Singh’s NDP
Earlier this week, Edmonton MLA Rakhi Pancholi said that buying a membership in the party she hopes to lead —...
In Generation Z, a new kind of voter emerges, focused more on issues, less on parties
When the country next elects a national government, there will be about 4.5 million Canadians under the age of 3...
Internal government polls capture desire for balanced budget, housing spending
Finance Minister Chyrstia Freeland will not present the 2024 budget until early spring but as early as last July the...
PCO poll finds many do not trust the media and do not believe news outlets are closing
Slightly more Canadians say the media cannot be trusted to make decisions in the public interest as say they have...
Poll finds 2023 Poilievre ads spur same voter response as 2015 Trudeau ads
Just ahead of the 2015 election, the Liberal Party of Canada released a series of ads featuring its leader, Justin...
NDP ridings got more federal housing cash; Conservative ridings got less
Funding from a multi-billion-dollar federal government program to house homeless individuals or those at risk of being homeless has so...
Would replacing Trudeau help the Liberals? It’s probably unlikely
When Brian Mulroney announced his retirement from office in February 1993, his personal approval ratings were in the teens and...
Poll says three in four want Trudeau to go, but Trudeau insists he’ll stay
On Feb. 28, 1984, Pierre Trudeau went for his famous walk in the snow where he made a decision about...
Conservatives promise unanimous support for national carbon tax pause
The federal Conservatives are promising to unanimously approve fast-tracking of any government legislation that would give Canadians who use natural...
Trudeau government’s own polling program is saying it’s in trouble
A detailed series of internal government polls obtained by Global News paints a picture of a government struggling to win...