• Marlo Glass

The Carney government’s second budget aims to paint a rosier financial picture for Canada’s economy, while emphasizing growth and investment efforts alongside affordability measures closer to home. “With everything going on in the world, I think Canadians understand we need to do more to build this country,” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne (Saint-Maurice–Champlain, Que.) told reporters ahead of the budget’s tabling...

• 2026-11-05
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• Marlo Glass

Just over a year after the Carney Liberals held up their promise to drop federal barriers to internal trade, provinces still need to make strides to increase labour mobility and the trade of services, say economists and interprovincial trade experts. “There’s still a lot left to do,” said Trevor Tombe, a professor of economics at the University of Calgary.

• 2026-08-01
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• Marlo Glass

Privacy experts warn the Liberal government’s proposal to create a “super regulator” to enforce laws governing social media and privacy legislation risks weakening Canada’s privacy protection regime by reducing the role of the federal privacy commissioner.

• 2026-06-26
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• Eleanor Wand, Marlo Glass

Prime Minister Mark Carney is a 'better political practitioner' than he’s given credit for, and the committee’s makeup could be another 'proof point' of that, says Conservative strategist Cole Hogan. The Liberal government’s new Canada-United States economic advisory council brings in corporate and industry heavy-hitters with “very powerful Rolodexes” who are most impacted by American tariffs, note observers, who add...

• 2026-04-24
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• Eleanor Wand, Marlo Glass

A crowd of tearful supporters joined Avi Lewis as he took the stage as NDP leader for the first time to address the party faithful after a resounding electoral victory at the party’s convention on Sunday morning. “Canada, mark your calendar: the NDP comeback starts now,” Lewis said to raucous cheers. Lewis, 58, held hands in a chain that included...

• 2026-03-29
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• Marlo Glass

The mandated review of the Access to Information Act, includes proposals from the government that are 'super regressive,' says veteran journalist Dean Beeby. 'It’s just bureaucrats running the show, and we’re all going to lose, because they’re not eager at all to open the system up and be transparent.'

• 2026-03-12
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• Stuart Benson, Marlo Glass

Three Conservative sources, two of whom are former MPs, say a damning quote is making the rounds in their circles after a third Tory joined the Liberal caucus: 'Pierre Poilievre has become the Justin Trudeau of the Conservative Party,' says one former MP. Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux is now the third Conservative to cross the floor to the Liberals in...

• 2026-02-18
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• Marlo Glass

Key legislation that offers early retirement to some public servants is tied to the budget implementation bill, but Senator Peter Boehm, a former longtime public servant and deputy minister, said officials began planning for job reductions ‘some time ago' and aren’t waiting for legislation to go through. With federal public servants continuing to receive notices that their jobs may be...

• 2026-02-06
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• Marlo Glass

A researcher and academic who has studied violence against women for decades says Ottawa’s bill introducing femicide into the Criminal Code could have gone further to address endemic levels of gender-based violence. Myrna Dawson, a professor with the University of Guelph and executive director of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, said Bill C-16 represents “progress,” but she...

• 2026-01-02
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• Marlo Glass

Canada’s budget watchdog says he is shifting his focus to emphasize serving parliamentarians with less media engagement after generating a spate of unflattering headlines about the Liberal government’s economic and fiscal outlook. “Since the beginning of September, we have held more meetings with parliamentarians and their staff than we would typically host over the course of the entire year,” Interim...

• 2025-11-20
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• Marlo Glass

Union leaders are bracing for the impacts of the pending budget, with one leader saying thousands of jobs could be cut if the Liberals make good on their promise to reduce the size of the federal public service.

• 2025-10-31
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• Marlo Glass

More than one year after civil servants were mandated to work in the office three days per week, and executives four days per week, there is no standardized way for departments to track employee attendance across the federal public service. This directive was applied to the core public service in September 2024, affecting more than 279,396 workers as of March...

• 2025-10-21
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• Marlo Glass

The Canada Revenue Agency’s watchdog says complaints are on the rise, while the agency forecasts a 10-per-cent reduction in staff over the next three years. Taxpayers’ ombudsperson François Boileau says his office is nearing the record-high level of complaints it received during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Canadians were scrambling to receive CERB and other emergency benefits.

• 2025-08-12
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• Marlo Glass

Canada’s public service integrity commissioner is facing a massive backlog in cases and insufficient funding, which she says jeopardizes her office’s ability to expose wrongdoing in the public service and to protect whistleblowers. “We’re at five times our capacity, which means some investigations may never see the light of day,” Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway said in an interview...

• 2025-08-05
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• Marlo Glass

The federal government may have held up its end of the bargain in lowering federally-imposed trade barriers by Canada Day, but premiers are now scrambling to strike their own trade deals between provinces. “It’s solving one patchwork with another patchwork,” internal trade expert Ryan Manucha said. “It would have been nice if the federal government said ‘here’s what we will...

• 2025-07-26
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• Marlo Glass

The Liberal government’s 11th-hour withdrawal of a controversial tax legislation, that was set to bring in billions of dollars from multinational tech giants, is a capitulation that was years in the making, economists and digital experts say. “This has been a source of friction for a number of years,” Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and...

• 2025-07-04
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• Marlo Glass

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pick for his top public servant is a man capable of transformative change, with a track record of being “totally, relentlessly focused,” on his prior senior roles in both the private and public sector, observers say.

• 2025-06-13
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• Marlo Glass

After a $1-billion bailout, more than $3-billion in losses over recent years, and now heading into the second strike action in six months, Canada Post has hit a crossroads, and the centuries-old mail service is in need of a “radical restructuring” for the digital era, experts say.

• 2025-05-23
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• Marlo Glass

First-time cabinet minister Shafqat Ali is assuming the role of Treasury Board president at a “delicate moment,” with trust frayed between the federal public service and its employer, says Canadian Association of Professional Employees President Nathan Prier. “Repairing the relationship between his workers and management in the federal public service has to be a top priority right off the bat...

• 2025-05-16
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• Marlo Glass

From an ex-political journalist, Vancouver’s former mayor, a survivor of a mass murder, a former banking CEO and other star candidates who performed impressively on election night, Prime Minister Mark Carney has no shortage of high-profile rookie MPs to pick from for cabinet positions. The question remains: around how many veteran ministers from the Trudeau era will stay, or if...

• 2025-05-09
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