These are the 30 most read items on National Newswatch, from the last seven days.
‘They’re still stuck in that Trudeau era view of the world, which would have garnered us maybe 15 to 20 seats across the country, and and they just can’t handle that.’ In the wake of Steven Guilbeault leaving cabinet, a senior government source told iPolitics that several other Trudeau-era Liberal MPs are also having challenges “coming to grips” to the...
Prime Minister Mark Carney shuffled his cabinet on Monday following the resignation of Steven Guilbeault last week, and has brought back a familiar face from the Justin Trudeau era. Marc Miller, who last served as the minister of immigration under Trudeau, has been appointed as minister of Canadian identity and culture and minister responsible for official languages. Miller was first...
The Prime Minister’s Office said the cabinet shuffle would bring only small changes to Carney’s front bench. Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to reveal how he will distribute the portfolios previously held by Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet last week after the federal government reached an agreement with Alberta that could pave the path for a new pipeline...
Steven Guilbeault has resigned from the prime minister’s cabinet, citing his strong opposition to the federal Liberal government’s major new energy agreement with Alberta, accusing Mark Carney of dismantling of climate plans. The dramatic departure comes just hours after Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, laying the groundwork for strengthened cooperation on major energy...
A British Columbia Liberal MP says Prime Minister Mark Carney "will have to answer" why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits when he signed the Alberta pipeline deal. The memorandum of understanding between Ottawa and Alberta extends federal tax credits for carbon capture to enhanced oil recovery, overturning a commitment made in the recent federal budget not to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet and senior ministerial staff ranks include a significant number of women, but there aren’t any women in the prime minister’s inner circle on whom he relies for top-level, day-to-day strategic advice, say some Liberals. “It’s not as though there aren’t any women with senior-ish titles in the Prime Minister’s Office—of course [there are],” said Supriya...
B.C. Premier David Eby – who has vehemently opposed Alberta’s pursuit for a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast – says he is open to a pipeline project in his province if the tanker ban remains in place. “No, I think we can have those conversations,” Eby said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday, when asked...
Alberta's watershed pipeline deal with Ottawa wasn't front and centre Friday when Premier Danielle Smith spoke with United Conservative Party faithful at their annual convention. Smith took the stage in Edmonton for the first of many addresses planned for the weekend. It wasn't until after she spoke on issues including rural policing, new federal legislation and even separatism that someone...
If now-backbench Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was looking for sympathy, he won't find it from four of the five candidates for NDP leader
Frustrated grassroots Conservatives are mounting efforts to wrest control of candidate nominations away from senior party officials, as members prepare for a national convention where Pierre Poilievre is set to face a critical test of his leadership. The Conservative party’s national convention will be held at the end of January in Calgary, near the rural riding where Poilievre clinched his...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have signed a major new energy cooperation agreement outlining the emission and other climate conditions that need to be met in order for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific to be approved under the federal major projects law. Signing a new memorandum of understanding (MOU), the federal and provincial governments...
Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali on Monday denied having any knowledge about discussions to potentially order public servants to return to the office full time in 2027. Ali was responding to questions from reporters after the Canadian Association of Professional Employees president Nathan Prier wrote to Ali to ask about rumours of the impending change. "I'm hearing from news outlets...
Members of the federal Liberal caucus maintained Friday that their party remains united in the wake of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet — but NDP MPs say they see signs that B.C. Liberal MPs are under political pressure. Guilbeault quit cabinet on Thursday to protest Ottawa's new pipeline pact with Alberta, which leaves open the possibility of overturning the coastal...
Green Party leader Elizabeth May says supporting the Carney government on the budget vote is a "mistake" she won't make again. May told The Canadian Press the memorandum of understanding Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on energy -- specifically the part that applies federal tax credits to enhanced oil recovery -- amounted to a "significant...
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and former environment minister Steven Guilbeault will not resign from Mark Carney’s cabinet over the upcoming pipeline agreement between Ottawa and Alberta, according to a senior government source. Guilbeault had been rumoured to be unhappy with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to agree to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would outline conditions under...
The leader of the Quebec Liberal Party has booted Marwah Rizqy from caucus, saying she has broken his trust. Pablo Rodriguez issued a statement announcing his decision ahead of a scheduled news conference later today.
Some MPs looking for a ‘retool’ under new campaign chief. After feeling the chance to form government slip through their fingers, many Conservatives are publicly gushing over their party’s choice to lead the next campaign. But the question still hanging in the air is just how much will actually change. Has Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre left behind the counsel of...
I am starting to wonder if Mark Carney knows what he is doing. On Thursday, he met with Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary to sign a new agreement with Alberta, which includes federal support for a bitumen pipeline to northern British Columbia. On the surface, this is splendid news. It was good to see Smith and Carney working together on...
The B.C. Conservative Party says John Rustad has been "removed" as leader of the Opposition and a caucus vote has installed MLA Trevor Halford as interim leader. The announcement comes after 20 MLAs representing a majority of Rustad's caucus said they had lost confidence in him and wanted him out, but he refused to resign and said there was no...
After a messy and confusing endgame, John Rustad's leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C. is finally over — but the battle over the ideological direction of the party that he took to the brink of power may be entering a new phase. Rustad announced his resignation Thursday in the provincial legislature, citing the need for party unity. It came...
More than 27,000 federal public servants were paid at least $150,000 in the last fiscal year, a document tabled in Parliament shows. It says more than 20,000 employees received compensation -- salaries, bonuses, benefits and overtime pay -- of between $150,000 and $199,999 in 2024-25. The document, prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, shows that nearly 5,000 employees...
Mayor Patrick Brown said he has “consistently” checked with Brampton’s integrity commissioner “to ensure there is no conflict of interest.” A numbered company registered to Mayor Patrick Brown and his wife has bought two properties on Main Street in downtown Brampton at the city’s historic centre. The two adjoining storefronts, with restaurants on the ground level and apartments on the...
The federal government is in the process of sending information on its planned early retirement program to almost 70,000 employees as it works to reduce the size of the public service. Mohammad Kamal, director of communications for the Office of the President of the Treasury Board, says letters are being sent to roughly 68,000 public servants who may be eligible...
A constituent trying to bring her brother and his family to Canada and raise awareness for others trying to flee the catastrophic Sudanese Civil War says she was yelled at by her MP, Immigration Minister Lena Diab. Huwaida Medani—who lives in Diab’s riding of Halifax West, N.S.—has been trying to bring her brother to Canada, as well as his wife...
For weeks now, rumours have circulated that Mark Carney could be doing a major shuffle of his cabinet before the end of this year. The shuffle that happened on Monday wasn’t the one people were talking about — or expecting.
In the midst of the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, the MP criticized his own government for politicizing the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2021 election. In 2017, Quebec politicians of all stripes marched in unison in Lévis to demonstrate their support to Davie shipyard workers and blast Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government for failing to provide enough contracts to avoid hundreds...
Legal action threatened over money mistakenly paid during payroll system's error-plagued rollout in 2016. Federal public servants are being threatened with legal action if they don’t repay money they were overpaid during the error-plagued rollout of the Phoenix pay system nearly a decade ago, Radio-Canada has learned. The government has authorized private debt collection companies to pursue repayment from those...
Trudeau-era environment minister left Carney cabinet last week. Canada will not be able to achieve the climate change targets it has set given recent decisions by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, warns former Liberal minister Steven Guilbeault. Speaking on Radio-Canada's Tout le monde en parle, Guilbeault said recent decisions by Carney’s government, such as last week’s memorandum of understanding with...
The head of Algoma Steel says the federal government and Government of Ontario knew the company’s business plan included a re-tooling of its Sault Ste. Marie plant that would result in layoffs before they agreed to half a billion dollars in loan assistance to help the company weather the storm of U.S. tariffs. Canada’s last remaining independent steel producer, which...
Basking in the glow of new-found friendship between Ottawa and Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith declared that this day would never have arrived if Justin Trudeau was still prime minister. “I can tell you 100 per cent that the former prime minister would never have moved this far on these issues,” Smith said, after she and Mark Carney unveiled a whole...