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Some Venezuelan-Canadians say the Trudeau government has failed to stand up for democracy in its response to the July 28 Venezuelan presidential election — an election tainted by widespread evidence of fraud and a government campaign of arrests, disappearances and torture of poll workers. Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia ruledContinue Reading

Politics The confidence-and-supply agreement between the NDP and Liberals has ended with a number of policy accomplishments for New Democrats — but others haven’t yet reached the finish line. The confidence-and-supply agreement was slated to last until June 2025, but the NDP backed out Wednesday Darren Major · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Politics NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision to pull his party out of the confidence-and-supply agreement with the governing Liberals injects a lot of uncertainty into Canadian politics — and it could lead to a federal election earlier than planned. While the end of the deal leaves PM Trudeau in aContinue Reading

Politics NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the confidence-and-supply agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Deal that ensured Liberal minority government’s survival was the first such agreement at the federal level Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Sep 04, 2024 12:47 PM EDT |Continue Reading

Politics After years of delays, a Canadian man’s lawsuit accusing the federal government of contributing to his detention and torture abroad is finally going ahead this fall. But before the case can proceed, a judge needs to decide if intelligence officials can testify behind closed doors. Abousfian Abdelrazik is suingContinue Reading

Politics The NDP’s supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals in Ottawa will get heavy scrutiny when leader Jagmeet Singh meets with his caucus in Montreal next week — and the Liberals’ decision last month to force binding arbitration to end a work stoppage at the country’s major railroads could end up triggeringContinue Reading

Politics China said on Tuesday it plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada, after Ottawa moved to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, lifting prices of domestic rapeseed oil futures to a one-month peak. Last week Canada announced 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, 25% tariff onContinue Reading

Politics Several civil society organizations, including women’s advocates, are calling on the Liberal government to swiftly flesh out firearm legislation passed last year by enacting crucial regulations and directives. Last year, Parliament approved bill with measures to keep firearms away from domestic abusers Jim Bronskill · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Politics Elections Canada says it’s taking steps ahead of an upcoming Montreal byelection to avoid a repeat of the hours-long delays that hampered ballot counting in a Toronto vote earlier this summer. Nearly 100 candidates on byelection ballot in Montreal riding of LaSalle–Émard–Verdun Darren Major · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading