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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s lack of explicit condemnation of far-right individuals and groups is a silence that speaks volumes about his willingness to court voters with more extremist views, according to those who study extremist movements.
Calling out CPC attacks, pushing back against angry premiers, pre-announcing the budget – all moves that signal a shift in messaging and a Liberal party finally ready to fight back, Liberal strategists say.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is firing back at criticism his government is encroaching too far into areas of provincial control amid a concerted pressure campaign from a number of premiers upset at a growing list of Liberal policies and funding commitments. Speaking to reporters in Calgary Friday, Trudeau said Canadians are feeling the pinch of the affordability crisis, and his...
Canadians fed up with paying high grocery prices will be closely watching the Trudeau government’s upcoming budget for measures that could ease their pocketbooks, but it remains unclear just how far the Liberals will be willing to go. Support for a windfall tax on grocery giants has been gaining political ground in Ottawa as a way to discourage large grocery...
Canada has now become the second most expensive country for patented medicines, according to a new report from Canada’s drug pricing regulator – a milestone that comes after years of Liberal promises to lower drug prices for Canadians. Some of those promises died years ago, experts say, when Ottawa failed to appeal a court decision against some of the federal...
An escalation of harassment and threats against Canadian politicians is leading to dangerous territory that not only discourages good people from considering public office, but could lead to tragedy, analysts say. While angry demonstrations are not new within Canada’s democratic movements, recent protests and altercations involving public office holders have been growing more aggressive and disruptive and increasingly also include...
The federal government has tabled its long-awaited pharmacare legislation — a bill hailed as a ‘historic’ first step toward national drug coverage, but one the federal health minister admits is a pilot starting with just two classes of medication.
Representatives of the lobster and seafood industries in Atlantic Canada are taking issue with criticism of a photo that went viral this week of Liberal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay enjoying lobster while on a trade mission in Malaysia.
Members of Parliament from all four major political parties in Ottawa are calling on the government to cancel an upcoming rent increase for military personnel living in National Defence accommodations. On April 1, rents for Forces members living in DND housing will increase by a national average of 4.2 per cent., based on an annual consumer price index (CPI) adjustment calculation.
Canada’s mental health and addictions minister says Ottawa plans to “review and renew” funding for federally-funded ‘safer supply’ pilot programs – a commitment that comes just as funding for a majority of these programs was about to lapse.
Senators upset by holiday cards that included imitation blood-filled syringes sent to parliamentarians by the union that represents prison workers say they are deeply concerned about how inmates are being treated amid calls for more oversight over the use of isolation in Canadian prisons.
While there may appear to be strategic advantages to merging in the same way the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties united in 2003, no such formal alliance is being contemplated, party spokespeople say.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre may be successfully avoiding questions that could wedge him within factions of his own party for now, but getting testy with reporters — particularly female journalists — during an election campaign could backfire, some political observers say. Poilievre has made headlines several times over the last few months for some heated exchanges with reporters who have...
The Liberal government’s bail reform package cleared a significant legislative hurdle this week despite ongoing concerns from legal and civil rights experts the proposed changes could likely result in more jail time for Indigenous and Black people in Canada. Bill C-48 passed third reading in the Senate Tuesday evening with much of the Liberal government’s original language intact. This despite...
The Trudeau government has softened its stance on plans to push ahead with a new digital services tax in the new year in the wake of heavy blowback from the United States, tax law experts say. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has remained firm, including a recommitment in July, that Canada would move forward with implementing a...
As Canadians wait to see details of the Trudeau government’s highly anticipated pharmacare bill, Health Minister Mark Holland is signalling that new cost estimates released last week for a universal single-payer program may be too high for Ottawa to shoulder alone. The Parliamentary Budget Officer released new estimates showing total spending on prescription drugs under a single-payer universal drug plan...