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OTTAWA -- The Liberal government's push to diversify trade won't change direction now that Democrats are preparing to take control of both houses of Congress following Tuesday's midterm elections, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Wednesday.
OTTAWA -- The annual immigration levels update will be included in the federal budget being released Thursday, a government source with knowledge of the plan confirms.
MONTREAL -- Canada and the European Union officially launched an "alliance for the future" on Friday and pledged to spend the next eight months in negotiations on making Canada an associate member — despite objections to that language on both sides of the Atlantic.
MONTREAL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney and his European Union counterparts are closing a major summit by announcing what they call an alliance for the future.
MONTREAL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney and his European Union counterparts are closing a major summit by announcing what they call an alliance for the future.
MONTREAL -- A major summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting with European Union leaders is set to conclude Friday with announcements on digital trade and academic exchanges.
MONTREAL -- A major summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting with European Union leaders is set to conclude Friday with announcements on digital trade and academic exchanges.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is working to become an "associate member" of the European Union, after largely avoiding that term.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is working to become an "associate member" of the European Union, after largely avoiding that term.
OTTAWA -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday this week's Canada-EU Summit opens up discussions on making Canada the bloc's first "associate member."
OTTAWA -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday this week's Canada-EU Summit opens up discussions on making Canada the bloc's first "associate member."
OTTAWA -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says this week's Canada-EU Summit opens up discussions on making Canada the bloc's first "associate member."
OTTAWA -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says this week's Canada-EU Summit opens up discussions on making Canada the bloc's first "associate member."
OTTAWA -- A stronger alliance between Canada and the European Union would only include a financial commitment if either side joins specific programs in either jurisdiction, a senior government official said Wednesday.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Antigua and Barbuda next week.
OTTAWA -- The next step in the relationship between Canada and the European Union is set to be unveiled by Prime Minister Mark Carney and EU President Ursula von der Leyen at a summit in Montreal on Thursday and Friday.
OTTAWA -- The Conservatives are calling on the government to implement temporary resident exit tracking, boost collaboration with the provinces and further reduce permanent residency admissions in the coming immigration levels plan.
OTTAWA -- It's no secret the long-held Canadian consensus on immigration has fractured -- pulled apart by a rapid increase in new arrivals post-pandemic and growing affordability challenges. Now, that fracture is starting to show up at the ballot box.
OTTAWA -- Ottawa is adding new express entry points for some permanent residency applicants in "high-wage" jobs, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Friday.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Friday he will be in Alberta just days before the province's referendum to deliver a speech on Canadian unity.
OTTAWA -- The federal government's contentious legislation to speed up major projects and reduce the number of labour disruptions comes up for a vote in the House of Commons today.
OTTAWA -- Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree acknowledged gaps in Canada's security screening process today after confirming a Canadian charged with espionage was given a security clearance.
OTTAWA -- Parliamentarians are back in Ottawa where debate is set to continue on the government's 243-page economic and labour bill, with plans to introduce legislation focused on national defence and security procurement.
OTTAWA -- Parliamentarians are back in Ottawa where debate is set to continue on the government's 243-page economic and labour bill, with plans to introduce legislation focused on national defence and security procurement.
OTTAWA -- U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said outstanding issues with Canada are "quite difficult to resolve" as the G20 trade ministers' meeting came to a close in Milwaukee on Thursday.
OTTAWA -- International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu had a pull-aside chat with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer Wednesday during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Sidhu's office says.
OTTAWA -- Ontario Conservative MP Scott Aitchison has announced he will resign his seat of Parry Sound-Muskoka at the end of the current fall parliamentary sitting.
OTTAWA -- International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Wisconsin this week.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says that with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population.
OTTAWA -- 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.
OTTAWA -- 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.
OTTAWA -- The Immigration Department will monitor for any negative effects from a recent decision not to extend a policy that gave permanent residency sponsorship exemptions to some refugees, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Wednesday.
OTTAWA -- Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department is looking into whether the decision not to extend a policy that gave permanent residency sponsorship exemptions to some refugees led to negative effects.
OTTAWA -- The International Centre for Human Rights and members of the Iranian community are calling on Ottawa to stop branding Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conscripts as inadmissible to the country by default.
OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it's "disingenuous" for the government not to use the word privatization to describe its plan to have investors take over operations of Canada's four biggest airports.
OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it's "disingenuous" of the government to refer to its plan to allow private investors to bid on operational stakes in Canada's four largest airports as anything but privatization.
OTTAWA -- The governing Liberals used their first day back from summer break to introduce a new bill to speed up the construction of infrastructure projects as trade tensions with the U.S. hang over the country.
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament returned from their summer break Monday with trade tensions hanging over the country, a new but undefined alliance with Europe on the horizon, and a Liberal government ready to push an aggressive agenda to get major new infrastructure approved.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday his government is focused on bringing down costs for Canadians and defending the country's sovereignty, though he acknowledged that some of those efforts are in their early stages.
OTTAWA -- The Immigration Department refuses to say whether applicants misused a refugee permanent resident sponsorship policy which was allowed to expire last week after Ottawa cited "potential integrity concerns."
OTTAWA -- The immigration department says it ended a permanent residency sponsorship exemption for some refugees over unnamed "potential integrity concerns."
OTTAWA -- The immigration minister has quietly ended a policy that helped some refugees sponsor their children or partners for permanent residency, while offering refugee advocates no explanation for the change.
OTTAWA -- The federal government is extending the suspension of federal fuel excise taxes until the new year to help Canadians feeling the pressure from higher energy costs caused by instability in the Middle East.
OTTAWA -- Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce an extension of the gas tax holiday at a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday.
OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will announce an extension of the gas tax holiday during a press conference in Ottawa today.
OTTAWA -- U.S. negotiators were pushing in trade talks last month for concessions from Canada that would have caused key sectors like the automotive industry to either become U.S. subsidiaries or be "wiped out" entirely, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday.
OTTAWA -- Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall has officially resigned from the House of Commons, making her the 10th MP to step down this year.
OTTAWA -- Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall officially resigned from the House of Commons on Monday, making her the 10th MP to step down this year.
OTTAWA -- The Liberals won more than 50 per cent of the vote in all three of Monday's byelections, holding two seats and picking up an additional Quebec riding from the Conservatives.
OTTAWA -- Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said.
OTTAWA -- A massive increase in immigration cases in the last six years has created unmanageable workloads at the Federal Court, says Chief Justice Alan Diner.
OTTAWA -- A massive increase in immigration cases in the last six years has created unmanageable workloads at the Federal Court, says Chief Justice Alan Diner.
OTTAWA -- Longtime Quebec MP Alexandre Boulerice officially resigned his Montreal seat this week to run for Quebec solidaire in the provincial election expected on Oct. 5.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France in September.
OTTAWA -- Some Conservative strategists said there is little to take away from U.S. Vice President JD Vance's apparent mockery of Leader Pierre Poilievre in a fundraising speech this week.
OTTAWA -- Several premiers seem open to returning American liquor to provincial shelves, but there is little enthusiasm about the idea as questions still linger on what a deal to avoid 50 per cent tariffs on $28 billion worth of goods looks like.
OTTAWA -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said he wishes Canada pushed harder against the U.S. in trade negotiations, but that he understands where Prime Minister Mark Carney is coming from in his bid to seal a deal.
OTTAWA -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc returned to Washington on Thursday to meet again with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer as work continues to finalize a deal to avert a new round of U.S. tariffs.
OTTAWA -- NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies says Prime Minister Mark Carney's own words suggest government advertising about building clean energy projects violates Canada's law against greenwashing.
OTTAWA -- Conservative and Bloc Quebecois members of the House of Commons public safety and national security committee are calling for an emergency meeting to discuss spying allegations involving a former Canadian NATO intern in Belgium.