The Liberal government has survived the first of what is expected to be a series of confidence votes during this fall sitting. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre brought forward a non-confidence motion this week in an effort to topple the government and trigger an early election. The result of Wednesday’s vote wasn’t really in doubt, as…
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet laid out a list of demands Wednesday he said the government must fulfil by the end of October if it wants to avoid the risk of an early election. Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill, Blanchet said the Bloc wants the government to push through a bill, C-319, that would hike…
The head of the Air Canada pilots union says she’ll step down if members opt not to approve a tentative deal with the airline, raising the stakes as aviators mull whether to accept hefty salary gains or drive an even harder bargain. Charlene Hudy, who chairs the Air Canada contingent of the Air Line Pilots…
At podium after podium during Sri Lanka’s presidential election campaign, Anura Kumara Dissanayake talked of the change he would bring to his debt-ridden country, which is mired in a fragile economic recovery. “We will defeat those who use the influence of their family, their wealth, the influence of government,” he told a large crowd on…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future, amid increasing geopolitical instability around the world. “Canada will have a leading role in making the world fairer and more prosperous,” Trudeau said in a news…
Residents of a town affected by the construction of the Site C dam are set to vote on whether their district should borrow nearly $5 million to pay for a new water treatment plant. Hudson’s Hope, B.C., with a population of about 850, is located on the banks of the Peace River, about 85 kilometres upriver…
The top item on the Bloc Québécois’ list of demands is a $16 billion piece of legislation When the NDP and Liberals signed the confidence and supply agreement in 2022, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the agreement caused the pendulum of power to swing so far in one direction that the interests of Quebec were not being…
Three months after it was tabled in Parliament, the Liberal Party of Canada’s national director says he still hasn’t read a bombshell report that concluded one of his party’s nomination races had been affected by foreign interference by China. Testifying before the public inquiry into foreign interference Friday, Azam Ishmael initially told the inquiry he…
Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the country prepares for its first election since then, many say they’re still waiting for change. When Sri Lanka sank into economic collapse in 2022, people from various walks of life rallied to change a long-entrenched government they saw as responsible. The unprecedented island-wide public uprising they led was a…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jewish American voters would be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate. During comments to the Israeli American Council National Summit in Washington, D.C., the former president lamented that he was trailing Harris among American Jews….
