Federal Politics

NDP MPs Laurel Collins and Peter Julian speak in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The New Democrats say they are supporting a Conservative motion that calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend his carbon pricing policy in a televised “emergency meeting” with the country’s premiers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

NDP backs Tory push for national carbon price ‘emergency meeting’

Prime Minister Trudeau has rejected calls for summit with premiers over controversial tax

NDP MPs Laurel Collins and Peter Julian speak in the Foyer of the House of Commons before Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The New Democrats say they are supporting a Conservative motion that calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend his carbon pricing policy in a televised “emergency meeting” with the country’s premiers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak during a media event in Saskatoon on February 1, 2024. The AFN says decades of underfunding and failed fiduciary duties have created a $349-billion infrastructure gap, and it needs Ottawa’s help to close it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

Canada’s First Nations say federal neglect has created a $349B gap

Assembly of First Nations wants that infrastructure shortfall closed by 2030

National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak during a media event in Saskatoon on February 1, 2024. The AFN says decades of underfunding and failed fiduciary duties have created a $349-billion infrastructure gap, and it needs Ottawa’s help to close it. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Freeland says Ottawa is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Youth mental health efforts to get $500M in latest Liberal pre-budget reveal

Fund being made available through community health organizations

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Freeland says Ottawa is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, stood outside Premier David Eby’s constituency office in Vancouver on March 21, 2024, demanding that he oppose the upcoming carbon tax hike. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)
Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, stood outside Premier David Eby’s constituency office in Vancouver on March 21, 2024, demanding that he oppose the upcoming carbon tax hike. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)
Defence Minister Bill Blair is set to release the long-awaited update to Canada’s defence policy this morning in Trenton, Ont. Blair speaks during a media availability in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Thursday, March 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Canada to upgrade military in order to hold on to its arctic sovereignty

‘Climate change is rapidly reshaping Canada and reshaping our North’

Defence Minister Bill Blair is set to release the long-awaited update to Canada’s defence policy this morning in Trenton, Ont. Blair speaks during a media availability in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Thursday, March 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
World Central Kitchen is asking Canada to back its demand for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers earlier this week. Canadian army veteran Jacob Flickinger, shown in a handout photo, was among those killed along with a Palestinian driver and citizens of Australia, Poland, and the United Kingdom. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - World Central Kitchen **MANDATORY CREDIT**

Airstrikes on aid workers don’t ‘just happen’: Trudeau rebukes Netanyahu

Canadian Jacob Flickinger among 7 killed while delivering food aid for World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen is asking Canada to back its demand for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers earlier this week. Canadian army veteran Jacob Flickinger, shown in a handout photo, was among those killed along with a Palestinian driver and citizens of Australia, Poland, and the United Kingdom. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - World Central Kitchen **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets a drywall worker with Housing Minister Sean Fraser (left) as they tour an under-construction condo tower in midtown Toronto, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

$15B apartment construction loan program latest federal housing offering

Trudeau offers glimpse of another program on its way in Canada’s upcoming budget

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets a drywall worker with Housing Minister Sean Fraser (left) as they tour an under-construction condo tower in midtown Toronto, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, is flanked by Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Sean Fraser, left, and mayor of Halifax Mike Savage while making a housing announcement in Dartmouth, N.S. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Trudeau unveils $6B housing fund — with strings attached

Program coming in new budget for provinces willing to adopt certain policies

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, is flanked by Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Sean Fraser, left, and mayor of Halifax Mike Savage while making a housing announcement in Dartmouth, N.S. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Pierre Poilievre rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. A spokesman for a regional Muslim advocacy group says the Conservative leader’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war could complicate his party’s relationship with Muslim Canadians. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Muslims watching Poilievre’s stance on Israel-Hamas war closely

Conservative leader reluctant to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Pierre Poilievre rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. A spokesman for a regional Muslim advocacy group says the Conservative leader’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war could complicate his party’s relationship with Muslim Canadians. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay, representative for South Surrey—White Rock, and Chief Opposition Whip visited Penticton on March 26 to spur local opposition to the federal carbon tax. (Brennan Phillips - Western News)

Conservatives send White Rock Whip to Penticton to protest carbon tax

The rally was one of many campaign-style events across Canada targeting Liberal and NDP MPs

Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay, representative for South Surrey—White Rock, and Chief Opposition Whip visited Penticton on March 26 to spur local opposition to the federal carbon tax. (Brennan Phillips - Western News)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits UNIFOR Local 200 and Local 444 members in Windsor, Ont., Thursday, March 14, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers asking for a pause to the carbon price’s upcoming increase, saying they have not provided any better ideas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne

Premiers complaining about carbon price failed to pitch better ideas: Trudeau

Price increasing from $65 a tonne to $80, adding about 3 cents to the cost of a litre of gasoline

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits UNIFOR Local 200 and Local 444 members in Windsor, Ont., Thursday, March 14, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers asking for a pause to the carbon price’s upcoming increase, saying they have not provided any better ideas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
A photograph by Frank Cyril Swannell taken on July 2, 1910, showing a stuck freight wagon near Mile 153 on the Cariboo Road. (Facebook)
A photograph by Frank Cyril Swannell taken on July 2, 1910, showing a stuck freight wagon near Mile 153 on the Cariboo Road. (Facebook)
Brian Mulroney’s three sons say there’s no doubt their father would have been thrilled by this week’s public tributes to honour his life. Mark, Ben, and Nicolas Mulroney, left to right, talk to media in the foyer following tributes to their father and late prime minister Brian Mulroney in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Mulroney family touched by tributes to Brian as they greet well-wishers

Former PM’s family has spent past 4 days welcoming those paying respects at his casket

Brian Mulroney’s three sons say there’s no doubt their father would have been thrilled by this week’s public tributes to honour his life. Mark, Ben, and Nicolas Mulroney, left to right, talk to media in the foyer following tributes to their father and late prime minister Brian Mulroney in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre attempted to kill the Liberals’ carbon pricing with a non-confidence motion on March 21. The vote failed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

House of Commons rejects Conservative non-confidence motion over carbon tax

Move marked 11th time in 18 months that Poilievre has attempted to kill or amend carbon price

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre attempted to kill the Liberals’ carbon pricing with a non-confidence motion on March 21. The vote failed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Poilievre says ‘spike the hike’, threatens carbon tax non-confidence vote

Conservative leader dangles ‘carbon tax election’ as Liberal MPs ask critics for a better idea

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. The Liberal government is looking for ways to improve policing services provided under contract by the RCMP across Canada — eyeing everything from overall cost and sustainability to stronger oversight and accountability. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada reviewing contract RCMP responsibilities, services, accountability

‘More responsive’ models with closer integration of the RCMP and community social services possible

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. The Liberal government is looking for ways to improve policing services provided under contract by the RCMP across Canada — eyeing everything from overall cost and sustainability to stronger oversight and accountability. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Members of the public who wish to pay tribute to Brian Mulroney can visit his casket in Ottawa starting this afternoon. A photograph and book of condolences for Members of Parliament to sign are seen in front of the official portrait of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, in the antechamber to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Friday, March 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Dignitaries, well-wishers parade past as Mulroney lies in state in Ottawa

A state funeral will be held Saturday morning at Notre-Dame Basilica

Members of the public who wish to pay tribute to Brian Mulroney can visit his casket in Ottawa starting this afternoon. A photograph and book of condolences for Members of Parliament to sign are seen in front of the official portrait of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, in the antechamber to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Friday, March 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
The Old West: Greenwood and the Boundary Country, circa 1895
The Old West: Greenwood and the Boundary Country, circa 1895
A photograph and book of condolences for Members of Parliament to sign are seen in front of the official portrait of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, in the antechamber to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill as Canadians mourn his death on Thursday at the age of 84, in Ottawa, Friday, March 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Ottawa salutes late PM Mulroney as family looks on from the gallery

Week of remembrance of the former prime minister culminates in a state funeral Saturday

A photograph and book of condolences for Members of Parliament to sign are seen in front of the official portrait of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, in the antechamber to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill as Canadians mourn his death on Thursday at the age of 84, in Ottawa, Friday, March 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang