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Finance minister says ties between 2 countries have 'never been stronger.' Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand on Tuesday, as the two senior federal ministers are in Mexico City to discuss increased trade. Sheinbaum posted three photos of the meeting on X Tuesday afternoon, saying, "We strengthened the relationship between...
2 Progressive Conservative premiers say they have full confidence in prime minister. It may not be the sunny ways government, but some premiers certainly seem to be feeling sunny about the future. And that's despite troubled trade negotiations with the United States and the worsening effects of that country's tariffs on Canadian businesses. Still, provincial premiers have nary seemed so...
Conservative leader hopes to regain House of Commons seat in an August byelection. Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says he lost his riding of Carleton in the federal election due to an "aggressive" campaign by public sector unions after he was honest about wanting to cut federal worker jobs. Poilievre had held the Ottawa riding of Carleton for two decades...
Days before the federal election and after more than a week without commenting on Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump resurfaced his 51st state rhetoric Wednesday afternoon and suggested he could further raise auto tariffs.
Federal party leaders are getting ready for their first debate of the election campaign this evening. The French-language debate will take place this evening at 6 p.m., followed by the English debate tomorrow at 7 p.m. Both debates are happening in Montreal at the CBC/Radio-Canada building downtown, in a large studio in its ground-floor atrium.
Open letter proposes national grid, high-speed rail, disaster resilience strategy. Municipal politicians across Canada have written a letter to the five main federal party leaders calling for climate-related actions they say would improve the country's resilience to environmental calamities. The group includes Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, Jasper, Alta., Mayor Richard Ireland, former Toronto mayor David Miller, Princeton, B.C., Mayor Spencer...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney named the wrong university as the site of the 1989 Montreal massacre on Tuesday — and flubbed the last name of the survivor who is running with his party. At a campaign stop in Musquodoboit Harbour in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, Carney made a nod to Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost but made two...
A former special forces soldier is suing the federal government, alleging he was blacklisted by his unit and pushed out of the military after he denounced Canadian troops' alleged involvement in the killing of unarmed people in Afghanistan. The soldier is also naming one current and two former top Canadian generals who he says minimized or failed to adequately investigate...