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The spectre of the Liberals’ 1995 budget cuts loom over public sector unions as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares to introduce his first budget Tuesday. The federal public service workforce has grown significantly over the last two decades under both Conservative and Liberal governments, and the number of federal bureaucrats is higher than its pre-pandemic peak.Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who will table the Carney government’s first budget on Tuesday, has suggested that the federal workforce numbers are not “sustainable.”But federal union leaders who spoke to Global News say cutting the public service are pushing back, arguing job cuts are not the most efficient path the reining in the government’s operating budget.“We’ve seen a pattern in the last year, the end of the ...

Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province’s municipal election results. Montrealers have voted for changeAfter eight years of the left-wing government of outgoing Mayor Valérie Plante, Montrealers have chosen centrist candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada as the city’s new mayor. Martinez Ferrada, who arrived in Canada as a Chilean refugee in 1980, served in the cabinet of ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau before running to lead the Ensemble Montréal party. Soraya Martinez Ferrada waves to supporters after being elected mayor of Montreal during the municipal election in Montreal on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday after federal officials began reviewing “serious concerns about his personal conduct,” according to a government spokesperson. Dr. George Tidmarsh, who was named to the FDA post in July, was placed on leave Friday after officials in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of General Counsel were notified of the issues, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard said in an email. Tidmarsh then resigned Sunday morning.“Secretary Kennedy expects the highest ethical standards from all individuals serving under his leadership and remains committed to full transparency,” Hilliard said.The departure came the same day that a drugmaker connected to one of Tidmarsh’s former business associates f...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool. Dozens of centers are missing out on federal grant payments that were due to arrive Nov. 1. Some say they’ll close indefinitely, while others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments and school districts. The closures mean Head Start students — who come from low-income households, are homeless or are in foster care — are missing out on preschool, where they are fed two meals a day and receive therapy vital to their development.“Children love school, and the fact that they can’t go is breaking their hearts,” said Sarah Sloan, who oversees small-town Head Start centers in...

Polls have closed in municipal elections held across most of Quebec’s approximately 1,100 municipalities. In Montreal, residents have cast their ballots to select a new mayor following Valérie Plante’s decision not to seek a third term.Recent surveys suggest Soraya Martinez Ferrada — a former federal Liberal cabinet minister and current leader of the centrist Ensemble Montréal — is the frontrunner in the race. Ensemble Montréal leader and mayoral candidate Soraya Martínez Ferrada casts her ballot on municipal election day in Montreal, Sunday, November 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes She has portrayed herself as the candidate of change and giving herself four years to solve the problem of homeless encampments. She h...