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OTTAWA -- Crews were at work in downtown Ottawa on Friday morning, touching up the protective coating on bronze statues around the National War Memorial before a whirlwind royal visit gets underway on Monday.
OTTAWA -- At least six members of Parliament are asking their colleagues to support their bid to become the next Speaker of the House of Commons, including the last man to hold that job, Greg Fergus.
OTTAWA -- People in Ottawa will have several chances to get a glimpse of the King and Queen during next week's royal visit to Canada, their first since King Charles's coronation.
OTTAWA -- The Alberta separatist movement presents a danger to the federal Conservative party, said former Tory member of Parliament Stockwell Day.
OTTAWA -- The Conservatives know more today about when their leader could return to the House of Commons, now that Damien Kurek has been officially declared the member of Parliament for Battle River--Crowfoot.
OTTAWA -- Conservatives will spend the summer "listening carefully to people" after yet another election loss, leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday as he headed into the party's first caucus meeting since Canadians went to the polls last week.
OTTAWA -- Newly elected Conservatives and returning MPs are set to meet in Ottawa this morning as the party charts its path forward after last week's election loss to the Liberals.
OTTAWA -- The group that added dozens of candidates to the ballot in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's riding in the recent federal election is planning to do the same in the upcoming byelection.
OTTAWA -- The main federal parties campaigned in the Montreal area Tuesday, with the Liberals pitching a new training benefit for mid-career workers and the Conservatives promising to protect seniors from scams.
OTTAWA -- The main federal parties are campaigning in the Montreal area as their leaders get ready for the debates later this week -- and the first face-to-face confrontation between Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising that a government led by him would use the notwithstanding clause to override Charter rights to implement his tough-on-crime agenda -- something no prime minister has ever done.
OTTAWA -- With polls suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration's use of punishing tariffs are a top-of-mind issue for Canadians ahead of the upcoming federal election, Trump has now offered his thoughts on which political party he would rather work with.
OTTAWA -- With polls suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration's use of punishing tariffs are a top-of-mind issue for Canadians ahead of the upcoming federal election, Trump has now offered his thoughts on which political party he would rather work with.
OTTAWA -- With polls suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration's use of punishing tariffs are a top-of-mind issue for Canadians ahead of the upcoming federal election, Trump has now offered his thoughts on which political party he would rather work with.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney's first move after taking office on Friday was to eliminate the consumer carbon price, undoing Justin Trudeau's signature climate policy.
OTTAWA -- Mark Carney will be sworn in as prime minister this morning at Rideau Hall, where he will also reveal his new cabinet.
OTTAWA -- Mark Carney will reveal the makeup of his cabinet on Friday morning, a collection of Liberal ministers who will see Canada through the next election.
OTTAWA -- Mark Carney's leadership campaign says he has given a "full and robust conflict of interest management plan" to the country's ethics commissioner.
OTTAWA -- The Conservative candidate for a northern Ontario riding has dropped out just weeks ahead of an expected election, citing issues with the local electoral district board.
OTTAWA -- The Liberals will choose a new leader Sunday, marking the end of Justin Trudeau's decade as prime minister.
OTTAWA -- The federal government says it's going to implement a new 30-business-day guarantee for passports.
OTTAWA -- Manitoba became the first province to officially join Ottawa's pharmacare program today, giving it access to federal funding to cover the cost of birth control and diabetes medications.
OTTAWA -- Multiple polls now suggest the next federal election -- which could begin in a matter of weeks -- will be a tight race.
OTTAWA -- In a series of press conferences in recent weeks, the federal Conservatives have demanded that Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney comply with the conflict of interest rules that apply to members of Parliament and cabinet ministers.
OTTAWA -- The Conservatives' favourite slogan -- "axe the tax" -- has been a rallying cry for the better part of three years as frustrated Canadians looked for relief from the rising cost of living.
OTTAWA -- Pierre Poilievre began a speech on Saturday with a quote from the country's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, pledging to create a united, rich nation "instead of making us a tributary to American laws, to American railways, to American bondage, to American tolls."
OTTAWA -- Hundreds of people have filled a downtown Ottawa convention centre to hear Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speak this afternoon.
OTTAWA -- Pierre Poilievre is set to address Conservative party supporters this afternoon at a rally in downtown Ottawa.
OTTAWA -- As political parties gear up for a federal election campaign that could begin as soon as March 10, the Conservatives appear focused on the man they believe they'll be running against: Mark Carney.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's pledge to boost Arctic security through a "massive" cut to Canada's foreign aid budget has led to renewed attacks from his political opponents, who are accusing him of borrowing policy from U.S. President Donald Trump.
OTTAWA -- The federal government is hosting a summit in Toronto today aimed at bolstering the economy in the face of Canada's rapidly changing relationship with its largest trading partner.
OTTAWA -- The federal Conservatives and New Democrats say the government needs to recall Parliament within the next month to act on U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat.
OTTAWA -- U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed not to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico for another month, pulling back from a plan that would have tipped North America into a trade war on Tuesday.
OTTAWA -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he'll have another "very good conversation" with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the afternoon, when the two leaders are set to speak about the impending trade war.
OTTAWA -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he'll have another "very good conversation" with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the afternoon, when the two leaders are set to speak about the impending trade war.
OTTAWA -- Health Minister Mark Holland is calling on the federal NDP to give the Liberal government more time in power to sign bilateral deals on pharmacare.
OTTAWA -- Health Minister Mark Holland says he's looking forward to signing more pharmacare deals with provinces and territories "in the coming days" -- and opposition parties should rethink their plans to bring down the government this spring to allow that to happen.
OTTAWA -- Canada's provincial and territorial health ministers are meeting with their federal counterpart in Halifax this week, and the New Democrats are urging them to ink pharmacare deals.
OTTAWA -- The federal public inquiry into foreign interference is calling on the leaders of all political parties to get top-secret security clearances -- a recommendation that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is not following.
OTTAWA -- The public inquiry into foreign interference is calling on the leaders of all political parties to get top-secret security clearances.
OTTAWA -- Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the "51st state," as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.
OTTAWA -- One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.
OTTAWA -- One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.
Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he shares the same economic vision as Mark Carney, and he's throwing his support behind the former central banker to become the next Liberal leader and prime minister.
OTTAWA -- Canada appears to be leaning toward hitting the United States with matching tariffs if President Donald Trump makes good on his threats, but not all of the country's premiers support that approach.
OTTAWA -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith understands why Canada's political leaders need to be united in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat, and he believes the country's premiers are "moving her along" in her position.
OTTAWA -- Another member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's front bench has decided to step away from federal politics at the next election.
OTTAWA -- Canada's premiers are meeting virtually with the prime minister today to talk about Donald Trump's early moves as president and the looming threat of tariffs.
OTTAWA -- Federal cabinet ministers are gathering in Montebello, Que., today as Donald Trump returns to the White House.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formed a new Canada-U.S. relations council to support the federal government as it deals with the incoming Trump administration's vow to impose tariffs.
OTTAWA -- A new poll suggests most Canadians are concerned about the federal government's ability to handle Canada-U.S. relations while the Liberals choose their next leader -- and that many Liberal supporters would prefer former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to be that leader.
OTTAWA -- A new poll suggests that Liberal supporters prefer Mark Carney as their next leader over a field of potential candidates.
OTTAWA -- The federal government has settled a class-action lawsuit with military members who were subjected to racism during their time in the Armed Forces.
OTTAWA -- Newfoundland MP Gudie Hutchings says she's not planning to run in the next federal election.
OTTAWA -- The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in Canadian history, and possibly one of the most partisan.
OTTAWA -- The Military Police Complaints Commission is investigating the military's handling of the case against a former general who was ousted from his high-ranking position after a sexual misconduct complaint in 2021.
OTTAWA -- Randy Boissonnault, whose shifting claims to Indigenous identity cost him his job as employment minister, told a House of Commons committee today that he is not Indigenous.
OTTAWA -- An investigation report into a Chinook helicopter crash that killed two Armed Forces members last year is recommending the Air Force use an automatic flight system when flying low over water at night.
OTTAWA -- The Canadian and American embassies in Ukraine were closed to the public on Wednesday after the U.S. warned of a "potential significant air attack" in Kyiv by Russia.
OTTAWA -- The Canadian and American embassies in Ukraine are closed to the public today after the U.S. warned of a "potential significant air attack" by Russia in Kyiv.