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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney again said on Thursday that Canadians need to be prepared for “sacrifices” ahead of the federal budget, but isn’t saying yet what those will be. During a joint press conference with Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Thursday, Carney was asked what those sacrifices might be after he had said in a speech Wednesday night that Canadians must be prepared.“We’ll have a budget and all aspects of the budget will reveal that,” Carney said on Thursday.However, Carney reiterated that the federal government would “maintain support to Canadians, particularly those who are most vulnerable.” Get daily National news Get the day's top news, politica...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 23, 2025 9:22 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal government is expected to pitch tougher bail and sentencing standards for violent crime in legislation Thursday. A news release said Justice Minister Sean Fraser will speak to reporters about the bill in the afternoon. 2:07 Liberals to introduce bail reform legislation Prime Minister Mark Carney said last week the legislation would make bail mor...

Just three years after Canada called China a “disruptive global power,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now views Beijing as a strategic partner in a dangerous world. Anand told The Canadian Press on Monday that a strategic partnership with China means going beyond allowing individual irritants to strain the entire relationship and permitting Canada to advance its economic and security interests.“It’s necessary for us to lay the foundation, if we are going to find areas where we can further co-operate,” she said. 2:44 Canada’s trade war with US, China fractures Carney’s ‘Team Canada’ approach “There are going to always be chal...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his comments about the RCMP Wednesday and denied saying former prime minister Justin Trudeau should be in jail. “That’s not what I said,” he said on Parliament Hill when asked about a recent interview on a YouTube channel.In that interview, which ran on the Northern Perspective channel last week, Poilievre called the RCMP’s leadership “despicable” and accused it of covering up for Trudeau.“Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have involved jail time,” he said. “Trudeau broke the Criminal Code when he took a free vacation from someone with whom he had government business.”“If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged,” Poilievre added in the interview. Story continue...