These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's 'elbows up' approach to U.S. President Donald Trump has evolved into public fawning and a major trade concession with seemingly little gained, say observers. After promising to be a truculent foil to the Trump administration during the spring federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney now faces questions about whether his rhetoric matches reality.
Before he was appointed to the federal cabinet two years ago, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote letters urging Canadian officials to approve the immigration application of a man they had determined was a member of a terrorist organization. The letters, dated 2023 and 2016, were written on Anandasangaree’s House of Commons letterhead and sent to the Canada Border Services...
'Keep going. Keep going. Don't give up." That's what Pierre Poilievre says Canadians are telling him. He smiles. Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was asked how he feels. After all, conservatives had so much hope. Finally, they could see the defeat of the Liberals.
The Liberal Party’s campaign co-director is launching a new strategic firm with a roster of political, governance and policy experts in a bid to translate the party’s successful campaign blueprint into one for the private sector. Andrew Bevan’s new firm is called Catalyze4, a deliberate riff off a word Prime Minister Mark Carney used repeatedly during the campaign and since...
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...
Premier earning reputation for hearing a plea, being persuaded, acting. Chad Anderson had travelled 90 minutes from his farm near Cremona, Alta., to bend the premier's ear, but it was starting to look futile. He'd come to a town hall with Danielle Smith and Agriculture Minister RJ Sigurdson in Okotoks, an apparent rehearsal of sorts for the Alberta Next panels...
The Conservative ‘movement is bigger, stronger and more energized than ever’ under Pierre Poilievre’s leadership, says Conservative MP Arpan Khanna. While Pierre Poilievre is preoccupied with his August byelection and with “grumbling” about his leadership getting “louder,” Conservative MP and national outreach chair Arpan Khanna is reaching out to his party’s unsuccessful candidates from the last election, urging them to...
An Alberta Conservative MP said she thinks the measles outbreak in her province can be traced back to the COVID pandemic and loss of trust in vaccines due to the federal government’s lack of transparency about their risks. Article content “Years after COVID, broken trust in government health directives has not been addressed for many Canadians,” Michelle Rempel Garner, formerly...
As federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faces calls to make changes following his April election loss, the manager who ran that campaign remains an advisor, but is taking a less visible role, at least for now. Jenni Byrne’s future with the party has been a source of discussion among MPs and other Conservative supporters frustrated by the party’s loss to...
The elections commissioner has levied four fines totalling $4,500 against an accountant relating to his work as an agent for the Conservative party. The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections says it doubled or tripled the fines issued to William Healy because he demonstrated intent or negligence. Two of the fines relate to Healy's work as the official agent...
Battle River-Crowfoot candidates say many voters are unhappy about having to go back to the polls less than four months after re-electing their Conservative Party of Canada MP. Residents of the rural Alberta riding overwhelmingly voted for Damien Kurek in April’s general election, when the now former MP received more than 82 per cent of the vote.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's chief of staff and the country's top public servant will be responsible for maintaining an ethics screen preventing him from making decisions that benefit his former employer. That information is part of a newly released disclosure from the office of the ethics commissioner.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's cuts to government spending will include the foreign service, just as Global Affairs Canada aims to expand its presence abroad. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to ministers on Monday asking them to find savings of 7.5 per cent in their budgets starting next spring. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says that will include Global Affairs...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the letters he sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney and other leaders about new tariff rates are "the deals", as Carney prepares to meet with his cabinet on tariffs and the trade negotiations. Trump appeared to be losing patience with his administration's efforts to make trade deals with nations around the world...
The husband of a former Alberta premier is questioning why Premier Danielle Smith is inviting her husband to sit in on government meetings. Lou Arab is married to former premier Rachel Notley and has long been a senior leader with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Ottawa has been in a sprint since January. A new Prime Minister. A new cabinet. A new agenda. Now, the House has adjourned for the summer. The BBQ circuit begins. Vacations will be taken. And whether they admit it or not, many will use the time to catch their breath and reflect. They should. Because in politics, everyone wants to...
Trump and PM Carney have been locked in negotiation to reach a trade agreement by July 21. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 35 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods as the two countries have been engaged in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement. Trump's latest threat came in a letter to Prime Minister...
We are witnessing the rapid transformation of the federal Liberal party from NDP-lite to something much more like Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government. Whether with a newfound love for energy development or deep cuts to federal spending, Mark Carney is making clear there’s a new kid on the block running Ottawa.
A trade deal with the United States will likely include some tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with his cabinet. Carney told reporters he expects the trade talks with the U.S. to "intensify" ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline to secure a new agreement, but then in French he said the evidence suggests President...
Former privy council clerks say there are upfront costs to long-term savings. The federal government has started its comprehensive review of government spending, but what will it mean for Canada's public service, what balance will it have to strike and can the Liberals really cut so much? These are the questions facing Prime Minister Mark Carney as he embarks on...
As Pierre Poilievre launches his byelection campaign to re-enter Parliament, he’s swapping Ottawa’s suburbs for Alberta’s vast prairie heartland—home to grain farmers, cattle ranchers, and oil-service crews, spread across an area larger than Costa Rica. Carleton was the riding he had represented since 2004, the place where he built his reputation as a combative, small-government conservative. But when it flipped...
The NDP, it is well known, is in deep trouble. With seven seats and 6.3 per cent of the popular vote in the recent election, the party posted its worst showing, not only since its founding, but since the founding of its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, in 1935.
Maxime Bernier’s PPC spends big, but mostly on itself. The numbers don’t lie.Since its founding in 2018, the People’s Party of Canada has contested three federal elections. It has never elected a single MP - not even its leader. Its support has stalled, its membership is stagnant, and its presence in Canadian politics is marginal at best.
Trump has called for a revival of Keystone XL. He may not appreciate Canada instead building a pipeline that offers Alberta's oil to China.
In 1993, Liberal party leader Jean Chrétien had dinner with four top Canadian academics. Over dessert, one asked a blunt question: If you win, what do you actually want to do? “I have three priorities,” replied Chrétien. They were to keep Canada independent from the United States, keep the country together and keep the International Monetary Fund out.
Dental association says government dealing with 'avalanche' of submissions. As federal dental care expands to cover most uninsured Canadians, providers say some procedures are being bogged down by paperwork and processing delays. Health Canada says 52 per cent of requests for pre-authorized dental work between November 2024 and June 2025 have been rejected. While the vast majority of claims don't need p
The Palestinian ambassador to Canada says she feels Ottawa is on the brink of officially recognizing statehood for her people, as she also takes note of tougher language from Canada on Israel's actions in Gaza. "Accountability means everything to the Palestinian people. That's all we are looking for," said Mona Abuamara, who is at the end of her four-year term...
Canada’s ambitious strategy to turn to the European Union to wean itself off American dependency for military equipment could be difficult to deliver and result in political fallout, warns former defence and security officials in a new report. After assessing the political and fiscal risks of the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Brussels...
