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Spending on public servants is expected to raise deficit by $8.5B over the next 5 years. Canada's parliamentary budget officer (PBO) estimates that the federal government spent $71.1 billion on wages and other personnel costs last year. That would represent a $1.5-billion increase from the $69.6 billion spent on staff in 2023-24, according to a report by the independent body...
Small businesses consider CUSMA certification, finding new markets. It's become a common refrain when Canadian politicians are asked about retaliatory measures or negotiations in the ongoing trade war: 85 per cent of Canada's trade with the U.S. is "tariff-free." Prime Minister Mark Carney said as much on Tuesday and again on Friday, when pressed for information about his next salvo...
'That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them,' says U.S. president in late night post. U.S. President Donald Trump took to his social media platform just after midnight on Thursday to say he is not pleased with Canada announcing it will recognize a Palestinian state in September if the West Bank's governing body...
PM pressed for Israel's control of aid distribution to be replaced amid reports of mass starvation in Gaza. Prime Minister Mark Carney has called Israel's denial of humanitarian aid in Gaza a violation of international law. In a news statement on Thursday, he pressed for Israel's control of aid distribution to be replaced amid reports of mass starvation in Gaza...
Liberals won the riding by 1 vote. The Bloc Québécois is expected to challenge the result in the federal riding of Terrebonne, where the party lost by one vote, as Elections Canada revealed issues with five more mail-in ballots. Radio-Canada sources say Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet will announce the party's intentions this morning. He will be holding a news...
Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada launched their official campaign from Saint-Georges, Que., on Monday, focused on slashing government spending while halting immigration.
Ford says hiking energy tax on U.S. still on the table. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he and Canada's premiers have agreed to develop a national trade strategy and promised a slew of support for workers and businesses. "We intend from a federal level to have free trade by Canada day," he said. The announcement comes after his meeting with...
Illegal migration from Canada to U.S. dropped by 9% in recent months, Hillman says. Canada's ambassador to the United States hinted the country might avoid U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs by continuing to tackle illegal migration and fentanyl trafficking. In an interview on Wednesday with CBC's Power & Politics guest host J.P. Tasker, Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said advisers to the...
Former House leader Karina Gould says she raised the $125,000 required of Liberal leadership candidates before Friday's deadline, allowing her to stay in the running. In a post on X, Gould thanked her supporters. "I can officially report that, after another record-breaking day yesterday, we've reached today's fee deadline," she wrote.
Trump's choice for commerce secretary said Feb. 1 threat is about border concerns. Days before tariffs that have the potential to cripple Canada's economy are expected to come into effect, Canadian politicians are pushing the message that the country is cracking down on one of U.S. President Donald Trump's main concerns.
NDP leader says he thought rebate would apply to anyone earning $150K or less. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the Liberal government to go back to the drawing board after learning that the Working Canadians Rebate won't apply to many seniors, people with disabilities and recent graduates. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that his government plans...
Excluding nonworking Canadians stigmatizes vulnerable people, disability advocate says. Some Canadian seniors say they're feeling abandoned by the Liberal government's latest inflation relief measure after learning they don't qualify for it. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that his government would send $250 cheques to the 18.7 million people in Canada who worked in 2023 and earned $150,000 or less.
Conservatives are ramping up pressure on Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault to resign following a news report that said his former medical-supply company shared a mailbox with a woman who was held in a drug bust. An report published in the National Post on Monday said that in 2020, Boissonnault's former company Global Health Imports Corporation (GHI) shared a rented mailbox...
Liberal caucus risks 'sleepwalking' into a Conservative win, Miller warns. Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Friday that an attempt by Liberal caucus members to get Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down is "the most passive-aggressive" display he has ever seen. Miller told host Marcy Markusa on CBC's Information Radio that any MP who signed a letter calling for Trudeau...
Conservative MP Michael Chong has accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of using his testimony on foreign interference as a platform to "smear" the Official Opposition. The foreign affairs critic told CBC News on Thursday that Trudeau's unwillingness to disclose the names of parliamentarians involved speaks to his "motivation about wanting to keep all of this secret for his own partisan...
Canada attempted over the past week to avoid the kind of tit-for-tat diplomatic conflict it now finds itself engaged in with India, a senior federal government source told CBC News. CBC News has agreed to keep the identity of the source confidential because they are not authorized to speak about the matter publicly.
Quebec is calling on Ottawa to introduce a nationwide quota system to evenly distribute asylum seekers across Canada. In a letter sent to federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller on July 22, Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Fréchette recommended that Ottawa set quotas for provinces to receive asylum seekers based on their demographic weight, their capacity to house newcomers as well as...
The Privy Council Office (PCO) says it did not search the aliases Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, used to make controversial social media posts. A spokesperson for the PCO said in a statement to CBC News on Monday that "an administrative oversight resulted in the aliases not being searched by PCO." In June, Dattani...
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather has been named the federal government's new special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office says Housefather will advise Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ministers on the federal government's efforts to "combat antisemitism and ensure Jewish Canadians are able to live with vibrancy, security, and dignity."
Federal Health Minister Mark Holland suggested on Monday that there are gaps in the early stages of screening scientists at secret-level facilities such as the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg. Holland told the House of Commons special committee on Canada-China relations there is a "responsibility of those individuals to disclose their engagements and affiliations." He added: "It is possible...
Ottawa's contracts with GC Strategies have amounted to over $239M since 2015. All federal government contracts with GC Strategies — the company at the centre of a blistering auditor general's report about the federal government's ArriveCan app — were suspended in November 2023 "out of caution," Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters Wednesday. The Trudeau government...