These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
Senior Liberals interviewed for this story said the mood inside the PMO is 'good,' but that it's a fast-paced, high-stress work environment, where staffers are trying to achieve an ambitious domestic policy agenda and dealing with growing concerns about the state of the economy, chiefly because of the trade dispute with the U.S. They also said it's hard to keep...
Brantford is seeing election controversy before a winter by-election has even been announced yet. In September, Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre exercised his power as leader, and chose the party’s candidate, despite there being others interested in vying for the spot. CHCH News spoke with one of those men, who is leaving the party and plans to run as an...
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he offered Mark Carney, then the governor of the Bank of Canada, a role in his Conservative government in 2012 -- though not as finance minister. Not right away, at least. In his new book "Here for Canada: Memoirs of the 22nd Prime Minister," Harper says he told Carney the finance position was already...
In an interview with POLITICO, the Canadian prime minister delivered a sharp brushback to Washington just days before the U.S. midterm. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that if his government could not successfully negotiate a suitable trade pact with the Trump administration, he was prepared to wait for a new American president to close the deal. In an...
Tax reform designed to spur economic growth will be a key pillar in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second budget, government sources say, signalling another policy shift in the governing Liberals from the Justin Trudeau era. National Post has learned that the budget, to be unveiled next Thursday, is expected to prioritize tax measures to spur innovation and improved competitiveness as...
It was at the G8 where my growing animosity toward Vladimir Putin would start to become public. I had been accused of having a Cold War mentality and bringing that to Canada’s relations with Russia. The charge was simply not true. My view is that Russia’s natural long-term gravitation should be toward the West, not against it. I believe the...
The federal Liberals are teeing up Thursday's budget as the government's next step toward fixing long-standing problems facing Canada's economy. Budget 2026 will be the second tabled under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Budgets detail a government's expectations for economic growth and the projected pace of spending and borrowing. They're also political documents that can serve as a launching pad for...
Voters in six federal ridings in Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan will be heading to the polls Dec. 7, after Prime Minister Mark Carney called byelections Sunday. A press release from the Prime Minster’s Office says byelections will take place in three Quebec ridings, including Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie and Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton, where seats were previously held by the Liberals, the NDP and...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose last-minute demands led to trade talks breaking down in August, has become the behind-the-scenes “driving force” pushing Canada and the U.S. to re-engage on a deal, multiple sources tell CTV News. Sources in both countries say Lutnick initiated the re-engagement just over 10 days ago, after months of stasis, and has centred talks around...
U.S. President is weakened, but still holds lots of executive power and can veto Democrat bills. A thumping, a shellacking, maybe even a disaster: there's no shortage of strong words you could choose to describe the midterm defeat that American voters just handed to U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican Party. The Democrats will take control of both the...
Regular question period viewers got a little more than the usual "yada, yada, yada" on Thursday as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Government House leader Steven MacKinnon traded Seinfeld-related jabs. Poilievre kicked off the reference contest with a question about the Canada-EU summit taking place in Montreal this week. "Is this just another Seinfeld summit? A meeting about nothing?" Poilievre...
Prime Minister Mark Carney now says Canada is working to become an "associate member" of the European Union, after largely avoiding that term. "We're here because we share a common mission. We're in the process of forging a new alliance for the future, with Canada as an associate member," Carney said Thursday. The prime minister on Thursday welcomed senior officials...
The fallout from the Democrat tsunami that crashed over the U.S. Congress was swift on Wednesday, after American voters rejected President Donald Trump's turbulent second term with a midterm election blowout. In a stinging rebuke of the second Trump administration, Democrats flipped long-held Republican Senate seats in Texas, Maine and South Carolina. The blue wave also washed over House seats...
In its account of the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) describes an extraordinary chain of events on Oct. 17. The base, it says, was monitoring a common grass fire that erupted in “uncommonly strong winds,” with flames soon devouring a kilometre in just 30 to 60 seconds. The military called
The Liberal government's new national security strategy stresses the need to better manage shocks to Canada's economy while fostering growth and innovation. The long-awaited strategy, made public Thursday, says securing Canada's sovereignty in key industrial sectors -- and delivering resources and expertise to the world -- will reinforce the country's position as an important player in the global economy. The...
Stephen Harper releases Here for Canada: Memoirs of the 22nd Prime Minister, on Tuesday, Nov. 3. It begins with the Harper family’s arrival in Nova Scotia in 1774, and ends with his final days in office, with a short afterword about his post-politics life — and his thoughts on Canada’s abilities to withstand current challenges, including the American one. In...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is working to become the European Union's first associate member, his most definitive statement on the issue to date after hosting the bloc's leaders in Montreal this week. This year's Canada-EU summit saw Canada and European officials finalize a number of negotiations and launch a long list of new commitments as part of a...
U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada and the United States have "the concept of a very good deal." Speaking to reporters in Iowa on Sunday, Trump said the countries were "very close" to reaching a trade deal. "We've been losing money for many years with Canada," he said. "We have the concept of a deal that's going to be great...
A formal petition signed by some members of the P.E.I. Progressive Conservative Party is calling for a vote on Premier Rob Lantz's leadership. Lantz secured his position as party leader and premier following a leadership contest win in February over Mark Ledwell with 53.1 per cent of the vote. Martie Murphy, a longtime member of the party, said the petition...
Since late 2022, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has relied heavily on mansion fundraisers to court billionaires, business dynasties, and television personalities, while Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers have drawn developers, investors, and former politicians since his Liberal leadership bid in early 2025.
After a year-and-a-half marked by defections, resignations and sagging poll numbers, Pierre Poilievre is staring down yet another challenge. Can the Conservatives hold onto a seat that his party has held for the past 18 years?
It’s no great secret that David Eby and the BC NDP were the biggest losers in Saturday’s BC election, which saw Lorne Doerksen and the BC Conservatives swept into power. Eby’s name has now become a verb, and anyone associated with his decision to call a snap election should be sent to the political equivalent of the Night’s Watch. But...
In a massive 645-page memoir, Stephen Harper aims to set the record straight. Publishing Tuesday, “Here for Canada: Memoirs of the 22nd Prime Minister” is clearly written for the history books, but for readers and chroniclers of today’s events, the former Conservative party leader’s memoir reveals where he thinks the mainstream media got it wrong, not least when it comes...
It is the job of the columnist to pull a bunch of disparate stories together and find the common theme that links them all. If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, you could even try and create an entire grand narrative out of all the various little data points. I don’t think the recent wave of elections and referendums in this country...
The Liberal government is arguing that tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment in Budget 2026 will give Canada the freedom to shape its own future. Ottawa is proposing $142.1 billion in new measures, largely offset by stronger-than-expected federal revenues, in the budget tabled Thursday afternoon in the House of Commons. Big-ticket items are aimed...
Canada-U.S. trade minister says strategy unchanged after Republican midterm losses. A senior Democrat says his party will work to end U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on allies, including Canada, when it takes control of Congress next year. "We want to have free and fair trade with Canada like the rest of the world. So that's going to be very much...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call by-elections shortly, with his party nominating candidates for four ridings in Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan in the past week. The Liberals will head into those elections having raised more money than the Conservatives in the third quarter of 2026, a reversal of roles for the Tories, who traditionally lead the pack in...
U.S. tariffs on Canada have played an outsized role in the Senate race in Maine, but experts say there may not be any relief coming for Canadians regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's midterms. Maine, a Northeastern U.S. state bordering both Quebec and New Brunswick by land, relies heavily on Canadian trade. Federal government figures show the state imports $4....
Canada and the European Union officially launched an "alliance for the future" on Friday and pledged to spend the next eight months in negotiations on making Canada an associate member — despite objections to that language on both sides of the Atlantic. "Today we move toward associate membership for Canada and we launch a new alliance for the future," Prime...
The midterm elections next Tuesday could deal a deathly blow to Trumpism. Even political stats guru Nate Silver says it’s possible. A shellacking of the Republicans could convince the party that Americans are getting fed up with the White House gong show and want to move back to traditional conservative leadership. What jubilation that news would bring to the rational...