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The Carney government’s Major Projects Office (MPO) is borrowing workers from financial institutions, energy companies and construction firms, but it won’t disclose which companies are involved or how much of the salaries those private firms are covering
Former Alberta MLA plans to target those ridings, others in launching a federal party along lines of the Bloc Québécois. The vote for separation in Alberta was stronger in rural areas where Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have some of their safest seats — which an upstart federal party now intends to target. As of Tuesday afternoon with almost all votes counted...
Earlier this month, with MPs still on summer break, a group of Canadians with a deep distrust of the federal government descended on a parliamentary committee room to tell politicians they felt lied to. The men and women from across the country came to Conservative MP Dean Allison’s event about COVID-19 vaccines, the injuries and deaths they believe were caused...
With just a month to go until Alberta’s sovereignty referendum, federalist organizers charge that many of the province’s Conservative members of Parliament have been missing in action in the fight to keep Alberta in Canada. Last month, the Star emailed Alberta MPs to ask how they plan to vote in the Oct. 19 referendum, which will ask whether the provincial...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been sidelined on eight more government decisions because of potential conflicts with his prior businesses, a new report says, including on help for Canada’s airlines and a loan to a Baffin Island mine.
Mark Carney can call the four byelections at any time between now and the end of this year. After years of advising candidates in elections, Braeden Caley is learning one lesson in his own campaign the hard way: wear sensible shoes. Earlier this week, with two door-knocking sessions on either side of a more formal event, the new Liberal candidate...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he had agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump to ramp up trade negotiations over the coming weeks — but that Canada is considering “all options” to respond if sweeping new U.S. tariffs take effect next month. “We agreed to intensify negotiations in the coming weeks, and the team and myself look forward to doing that,”...
Grassroots Liberals in Beaches—East York will get their say on the party’s candidate in an upcoming byelection with a nomination contest in the Toronto riding that will run for just nine days. The party confirmed Thursday that it will hold an open race for the nomination, concluding with a vote on July 18.
Whichever route Alberta picks for its proposed oil pipeline to the B.C. coast, the federal government will have to do a swift but thorough consultation with Indigenous Peoples to avoid time-consuming court challenges, all with a looming separation referendum hanging over the process.
The federal government will consider adding a stop in Kingston, Ont., to the Alto high-speed rail project, opting to pursue a southern route that bypasses the Highway 7 corridor, the Star has learned. Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon will be in Kingston on Monday morning, when he will make the announcement and release the government’s consultation report that summarizes thousands of...
After announcing his resignation over the Carney government’s climate policies, Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault said he wouldn’t rule out returning to federal politics under a different prime minister. “I’m certainly not closing the door to future possibilities,” he said when asked if he would return under another prime minister. “It’s been an amazing experience and certainly not one that I...
Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing gives the Liberals a virtual lock on a majority, and one that would allow them to do far more than simply survive confidence votes — because not all majorities are created equal. Two of the three April 13 contests — in the Toronto ridings of University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest — are widely considered...
Three upcoming byelections could determine not just three local contests but whether Prime Minister Mark Carney gets a majority mandate to govern until 2029.
As the Supreme Court hears arguments on the notwithstanding clause’s role in Canada, some Liberal party members are arguing for using the federal government’s nuclear option, disallowance, which can invalidate any provincial laws, including those that use the clause to bypass the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When they gather in Montreal for their national convention on April 9, Liberals...
It’s not just floor-crossing MPs warming up to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canadians are showing high support for the Liberals and many would now back the party’s re-election, according to a new Abacus Data poll. The poll shows the Liberals have 46 per cent support nationally, an 11-point lead over the Conservatives who are at 35 per cent. The NDP...
As some Albertans push to leave Canada, they could also be pushing away the billions of dollars needed to build a pipeline, in the same way past threats of separation led to capital flight from Quebec, warns the province’s former premier. “The oil and gas sector, the big projects that drive employment and government revenues, require tens of billions of...
Mark Carney’s Liberals will be running a member of the provincial NDP in an upcoming byelection in Scarborough Southwest. The federal Liberals announced Tuesday morning that Doly Begum, the New Democrat MPP for the riding and the provincial NDP’s deputy leader, will be their candidate in the byelection to replace Bill Blair, who stepped down yesterday.
The Liberal government’s ongoing reductions to the public service have so far led to more than 16,000 positions being eliminated, with 23,000 people now warned their jobs are at risk. The government unveiled a website Friday with details on the number of jobs to be eliminated across all of the core public service departments. Those don’t include Crown corporations or...
Senior Liberals are recruiting a Toronto doctor to be the party’s candidate in University—Rosedale in an upcoming byelection to replace Chrystia Freeland. Dr. Danielle Martin, chair of the University of Toronto’s family medicine program, has become a preferred candidate for senior Liberals who believe she would represent the party well in the downtown Toronto riding.
The polling done exclusively for the Toronto Star shows the Liberals and the Conservatives tied at 41 per cent. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s personal popularity took its first major hit in Abacus Data’s most recent polling, while the overall numbers still show a neck-and-neck race between the Liberals and Conservatives. The polling done exclusively for the Toronto Star shows the...
Two departing members of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body say the Carney government is shredding any hope the country will meet its climate goals. Mark Carney’s government has sidelined its independent climate advisory body and is putting Canada’s climate targets at risk, charged two members of the group who resigned this week in frustration. Simon Donner, a UBC professor who was...
Many poorer Canadians will get the government benefits they are entitled too and could be lifted out of poverty thanks to Ottawa’s plan to set up auto-filing tax returns for low-income citizens, activists say. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to...
Dawn Farrell has the support of business leaders and a resumé replete with building big things, but already, just weeks into her job as CEO of Canada’s Major Projects Office, there are questions about how she will meet those sky-high expectations and get “nation-building” projects built. Farrell was announced last month as CEO of the Major Projects Office (MPO) to...
The drubbing the country’s smaller political parties faced in the federal election not only bruised egos but damaged bank accounts, leaving the Liberals and Conservatives with a major advantage moving forward, a Star analysis of election rebate funding reveals. Federal parties can receive a partial rebate of the money they spend during campaigns from Elections Canada. The money, which is...
Call it the end of the beginning. When Liberals choose their next leader on Sunday, Canadian politics will enter a new era. The long denouement of Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership — which started, officially, when he announced his resignation on Jan. 6 — will give way to the opening act of whatever comes next.
Talk of who would be Justin Trudeau’s successor was happening in Ottawa well before he walked out of Rideau Cottage in early January and told the nation he was bowing out. There were short lists and long lists, cabinet ministers who were quietly organizing and many who were expected to be serious leadership contenders, but Karina Gould’s was not a...
Even as she attempts to become Liberal leader and prime minister, Chrystia Freeland is still surprised she chose to run for office at all. “Sometimes when I look back on that decision, I’m astonished that I made that decision,” she said in a recent interview with the Star.
Liberal supporters, former MPs, and one leadership campaign say problems with the party’s voter verification process could prevent people from casting their ballots in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The party is using Canada Post’s Identity+ app or visits to post offices to verify that registered Liberals are Canadian citizens who can vote in the leadership race...
The high-stakes race for the job of Liberal leader and prime minister has prompted a deluge of misinformation online about the contest’s two front-runners. A new report illustrating that finding comes as the race to crown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor now has a pared-back field of five candidates, many of whom spent the past week unveiling their campaigns in...
The field of potential candidates to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader is growing, ahead of a key caucus meeting Wednesday where Liberals MPs are expected to debate the rules and shape of the coming contest. According to a source familiar with her thinking, Burlington MP Karina Gould, the current House leader, is actively considering a leadership race...
Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to finally decide whether to resign or cling on, with some Liberal MPs urging him to quickly make up his mind, and one major business group raising concerns about “chaos” at the centre of Canadian political power. The uncertainty over who will lead the country into the new year comes barely three...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life, behind closed doors. At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned...
Global Affairs Canada has relocated out of China the diplomatic posting for a controversial intelligence program that was once held by Michael Kovrig — one of two Canadian men held by Beijing for more than 1,000 days. The department confirmed to the Star this week that Canada moved a diplomatic position in the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) out of...
A Liberal MP said he was threatened with unspecified “consequences” if he votes against the government’s proposed $250 cheques, an affordability measure that continues to face an uncertain path through the House of Commons. Hamilton MP Chad Collins said earlier this week that he would vote against the government’s cash rebates because they leave out seniors and people with disabilities...
Ford, chair of the Council of Federation of premiers, said “there’s a clear consensus that everyone agrees that we need a bilateral trade deal with the U.S. and a separate bilateral trade deal with Mexico.” Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to strike a separate trade deal with the United States, excluding Mexico, says Premier Doug...
Chrystia Freeland has called him a “proof point” of the enduring Canada-U.S. relationship. Fortune Magazine has asked if he could be the Elon Musk of steel. But Lourenco Goncalves says Canada’s trade partnership with the U.S. can thrive during Donald Trump’s second administration because of the close ties between the two nations.
The Liberals are being pushed to intervene in labour unrest at the country’s ports, which have been shut down by lockouts that are causing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods to be diverted or delayed every day. Late Sunday night, 1,200 dockworkers in Montreal were locked out after rejecting their employer’s latest offer. Last week, workers at the...
Not all Canadian small businesses will be benefiting from new lower credit card fees arranged by the federal government because one major payments processor says it won’ be passing along its savings to many of its merchants. And one of the directors of the payments company, Stripe, is Mark Carney, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said his party rejects the proposed national pharmacare plan, arguing it would force Canadians to give up their own private drug plans.
A new poll shows the NDP sliding dramatically over the summer, while the Conservatives continue to hold onto their significant lead. The Postmedia-Leger poll, found support for the New Democrats dropped five percentage points to 15 per cent in just over a month. The Conservatives enjoy 43 per cent support nationally, a full 18 percentage points ahead of the federal...
The PM's chances of winning a fourth term range from slim to none. Here's 10 who could step up if he steps down
The Liberals’ stunning defeat in the Toronto—St-Paul’s byelection this week could be just the beginning of a year of pain for the party: several more byelections are expected; all of them could happen before 2024 is over.
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians said it is still fighting to obtain all the documents it needs to fulfill its mandate
Poilievre denounced the lobbying culture in corporate Canada in a speech in March. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s view of lobbyists as “useless and overpaid” hasn’t stopped him from meeting with them, according to records in Canada’s lobbyist registry.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stood up during question period in November and demanded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defend the carve out for home heating oil from the carbon tax. “If he is so proud of how he is forcing Canadians to choose between heating and eating, why does he not have the guts to stand up and say so now?”
Israel’s Ambassador to Canada said his country is “deeply disappointed” by Canada’s support for a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on Tuesday.
Canada’s foreign interference inquiry will include opposition parties, but the judge running the inquiry won’t grant them the right to ask witnesses questions or see all the evidence. On Monday, ahead of public hearings expected in January, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue released a decision on who will have standing at the inquiry.
'While this act in some ways oversteps Parliament's authority, there is broad federal authority to conduct environmental assessments'
