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Politics The House of Commons Speaker has intervened to end a parliamentary impasse by ruling that opposition business will happen later this week — after the Conservatives blocked their own motion to bring down the government Monday morning. Opposition days scheduled for Thursday and Friday Dylan Robertson · The Canadian PressContinue Reading

The federal government’s pandemic-era loan program for small businesses suffered from contracting problems due to a lack of oversight, Canada’s auditor general says. The Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) was introduced at the height of the pandemic to help out small businesses forced to close or limit their operations dueContinue Reading

Agents of the Indian government allegedly attempted to derail Patrick Brown’s campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2022, according to sources who spoke to Radio-Canada. Brown’s national campaign co-chair, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, allegedly was pressured to withdraw her support for Brown in the 2022 ConservativeContinue Reading

Politics U.S. president-elect Donald Trump left his Canadian guests at Mar-a-Lago with a clear impression that fentanyl is his top priority for now in the Canada-U.S. relationship, according to Canadian officials familiar with the details of Friday’s surprise dinner. What’s less clear is what Trump wants in exchange for droppingContinue Reading

President-elect Donald Trump this week cited drugs as a reason for his threat of crushing U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump wrote on his social mediaContinue Reading

Politics Former U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers is warning that president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies could drive inflation higher in the U.S. Larry Summers says the end result would be a ‘less efficient global economy’   Sarah Ramsaran · CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 2024 4:00 AM EST |Continue Reading

Parts of Toronto’s Immigration Holding Centre — where migrants are detained by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) before they’re either deported or released into the community to wait for their immigration cases to be heard — look like university dorm rooms. Minley Lloyd is a CBSA assistant director ofContinue Reading

If there’s one thing Canada’s premiers have always agreed on, it’s that the federal government needs to respect provincial jurisdiction. If there’s a second thing they now agree on, it’s that (notwithstanding their belief that governments should mind their own business) the federal government should spend substantially more on national defence — not least becauseContinue Reading

Politics A NDP MP is calling on the Speaker to intervene after she accused some Conservatives MPs of harassment and name-calling during a raucous late-night voting session Thursday in the House of Commons. CBC News · Posted: Nov 29, 2024 6:38 PM EST | Last Updated: November 30 NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen rises during questionContinue Reading