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11 months ago
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Ottawa reaches deal with Stellantis worth up to $16 billion, after months of tense negotiations o...

Automotive giant Stellantis has accepted an offer from the Canadian government to salvage an electric vehicle battery...

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11 months ago
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Justin Trudeau is showcasing new MPs — and not his top ministers. What does that mean?

There’s an unmistakable whiff of change in the unusually hot air of the nation’s capital as federal cabinet shuffle r...

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11 months ago
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Ottawa ignores plea to end Safe Third Country Agreement as Supreme Court upholds Canada-U.S. refu...

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of a Canada-U.S. immigration deal that turns back most w...

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11 months ago
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Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown retires early, ending probe into alleged drunk and obnoxious ...

Brown’s sudden retirement was announced by the Canadian Judicial Council, which was investigating a complaint filed b...

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11 months ago
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David Johnston quits, Justin Trudeau to consider public inquiry into foreign elections interference

Johnston was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March to probe the extent of foreign interference in Canad...

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about 1 year ago
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Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is in decline, and no one wants to talk about it

More than 50 years after Pierre Trudeau famously compared Canada-U.S. relations to “sleeping with an elephant,” it se...

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about 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau asks former governor general to probe claims of election interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named former governor general David Johnston as an independent advisor to look at a...

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about 1 year ago
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Joe Biden to visit Canada on March 23

U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Canada on March 23-24, sources told the Star.

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about 1 year ago
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Pierre Poilievre accuses Justin Trudeau of ‘covering up’ support from China

Poilievre says spy agency CSIS deliberately leaked information about elections meddling to reporters because it didn’...

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about 1 year ago
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki announces her retirement just days ahead of ‘Freedom Convoy’ report

Lucki’s term Her saw her grapple with allegations of political interference, accusations she was ignorant of systemic...

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about 1 year ago
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Did Justin Trudeau need the Emergencies Act to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’? The top questions the j...

Justice Paul Rouleau’s report into the Trudeau government’s decision to use the Emergencies Act to end the so-called ...

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about 1 year ago
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Premiers accept Justin Trudeau’s health-care funding offer, move on to individual deals

Premiers accept Justin Trudeau’s health-care funding offer, move on to individual deals

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over 1 year ago
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Cigars with Doug Ford. Coffee with François Legault. The inside story of what broke Canada’s poli...

The political stalemate over health-care spending in Canada began to ease one warm August day on a New Brunswick cott...

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over 1 year ago
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‘We’re not going to be signing deals’: Justin Trudeau to meet with premiers as pressure builds fo...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is downplaying the prospects of signing a final health care funding agreement with the ...

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over 1 year ago
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Think you’ve got the answer for our ongoing COVID-19 woes? So did China

A government doesn’t always get things right, but it should be prepared to admit it when it gets things wrong, Martin...

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over 1 year ago
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Lawyer for ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers kicked out of Emergencies Act inquiry

A lawyer for some organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests was ejected from the Emergencies Act inquiry ...

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over 1 year ago
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Pat King, Diagolon, and ‘legal nonsense’: Prominent ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders downplay controversi...

Keith Wilson and Tom Marazzo distanced themselves from controversial parts of the “Freedom Convoy” movement on Wednes...

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over 1 year ago
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How one trucker’s TikTok video turned into the ‘Freedom Convoy,’ according to inquiry lawyers

Inquiry charts the growth of the “freedom” movement from 2019’s “United We Roll” convoy to protest the federal carbon...

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over 1 year ago
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Opponents say they don’t underestimate new Conservative leader

Pierre Poilievre’s victory was closely watched Saturday night by key political operatives.

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almost 2 years ago
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Justin Trudeau appears to contradict top minister over why the Emergencies Act was used

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doubled down on a claim that police forces “asked for” the novel powers Ottawa granted ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Airport chaos could get worse as Ottawa removes COVID-19 vaccine mandates for travellers

The federal Liberal government is dropping vaccine mandates for federal and federally-regulated employees, as well as...

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almost 2 years ago
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Justin Trudeau has COVID-19 for a second time

Trudeau announced his positive result on Twitter just two days after returning from an international summit in Califo...

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almost 2 years ago
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Canada can and should do more to help Ukraine, MélanieJoly says

Foreign affairs minister says Ottawa is facing huge demands for the special authorization program it has created to a...

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about 2 years ago
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Bookings to start next week for Ukrainian refugee flights to Canada

Three flights carrying about 300 passengers each to start arriving at the end of May.

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about 2 years ago
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Federal budget tightens spending, renews focus on housing

The 2022 budget plan is perhaps the most conservative budget that the Trudeau Liberals have ever produced, and yet it...

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over 2 years ago
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Liberal insiders shrug as rumours swirl about deal with New Democrats

Several Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers say they don’t see an upside or need to strike a formal agreement with the ...

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over 2 years ago
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Erin O’Toole calls pandemic election “un-Canadian” in final push for votes

Conservative leader goes personal as polls suggest the O’Toole campaign is in trouble in Ontario, calls Trudeau’s ele...

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almost 3 years ago
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How will Justin Trudeau fight his next election campaign? The provincial race in Nova Scotia may ...

As Nova Scotians get ready to go to the polls, they are happy, increasingly vaccinated and hopeful that the worst of ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Beijing’s sanctions opened up new doors for Conservative MP Michael Chong

The Conservatives’ foreign affairs critic has joined a European Parliament-led committee made up of politicians sanct...

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almost 3 years ago
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Opinion | The tensions looming between Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are a welcome return to normal

No one in Canada is worrying about waking up to a tweet from Biden that imposes surprise tariffs, Susan Delacourt wri...

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about 3 years ago
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Ban air travel to Canada from countries that are struggling with COVID-19 variants, Erin O’Toole ...

Conservative leader says Canada needs a “temporary suspension” of international travel from countries where COVID-19 ...

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about 3 years ago
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Erin O’Toole is well aware he’s pushing for a carbon tax

Two sources close to the Conservative leader acknowledge the party has painted themselves into a corner on climate ch...

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about 3 years ago
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Mark Carney commits to support the Liberals but doesn’t say if he’ll run

The former central bank governor, former head of the Bank of England, now UN envoy on climate action and finance, too...

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about 3 years ago
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Erin O’Toole says the Conservative party ‘has to change’ to win

In a keynote speech to the party faithful on Friday afternoon, Erin O’Toole laid out some hard truths for a party tha...

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about 3 years ago
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Why are Conservatives privately slagging Erin O’Toole? Look no further than the polls

Sources close to the rookie party leader say they are unconcerned with the spate of negative headlines and rabble rou...

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about 3 years ago
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Workers at Canada’s cyber defence agency vote to go on strike

Some 2,400 cyber defence employees at the Communications Security Establishment voted to strike over wages at a time ...

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about 3 years ago
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Liberal MP apologizes to voters after his office emails their information to Conservatives

Chandra Arya likely won’t face any sanctions for the privacy breach, because politicians and political parties are la...

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over 3 years ago
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Erin O’Toole says drug offenders deserve help, not stiff penalties

Conservative leader says he opposes “serious” penalties for simple possession, but is not in favour of legalizing all...

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over 3 years ago
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Governor General Julie Payette and top aide have resigned: reports

Governor General Julie Payette and her top aide Assunta di Lorenzo have reportedly resigned in the aftermath of a dev...

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