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By David Baxter The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2025 11:13 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The NDP national council is scheduled to meet Monday night to pick an interim leader. Jagmeet Singh announced on election night that he would step down as soon as an interim leader was chosen.The NDP was reduced to just seven seats in the election on April 28 and no longer holds official party status.Two party officials say the NDP caucus met twice last week to discuss who will lead the party until a leadership race can be completed. ...

By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2025 8:35 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s Milton East–Halton Hills South riding has flipped to the Liberals after a vote validation process. Elections Canada’s validated results indicate that Liberal candidate Kristina Tesser Derksen received 32,130 votes, while Conservative candidate Parm Gill received 32,101 votes – a difference of 29 votes.The Liberals’ minority government is now back up to 169 seats, while the Conservatives now count 143 seats.On Thursday, the federal riding of Terrebonne in Quebec went from the Liberals’ ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was advised to press U.S. President Donald Trump on the close integration of the Canadian and American economies — with a particular focus on America’s reliance on Canadian energy and minerals — ahead of his Nov. 29 dinner at Trump’s Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, according to documents obtained by Global News through a federal Access-to-Information request. The briefing notes prepared for Trudeau were released days before Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, heads to Washington for a White House meeting Tuesday with Trump. It will be Carney’s first meeting with the U.S. president since Carney became prime minister and Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with a Canadian prime minister since Trudeau’s Mar-a-Lago visit.Carney and Canadian officials will, at the very ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be watched closely by Canadians infuriated by Donald Trump — and by an anxious business community looking for tariff relief — when he meets with the U.S. president Tuesday in Washington. After months of Trump’s annexation threats, the newly elected prime minister will be tasked with a delicate balancing act — showing strength while maintaining Canada’s place in a critical North American trade pact the president’s tariffs have sought to upend.“My government will fight to get the best deal for Canada,” Carney said Friday in his first news conference since the election.The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, called CUSMA, was negotiated during the first Trump administration. Trump at the time called it the best deal ever and Canadian officials declared it a ...