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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 12, 2025 2:48 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A judicial recount is underway in a rural Newfoundland riding where the Liberals finished with a 12-vote lead. The recount in the Terra Nova—The Peninsulas riding in central Newfoundland is one of four that Elections Canada ordered after last month’s federal election.Three of those recounts were automatically triggered because the winning margin was less than one one-thousandth of the valid votes cast in the riding. 2:11 ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are set to be sworn in on Tuesday. While it’s not known who will make up the new slate of ministers, there are some elements of a cabinet swearing-in that are common each time it happens and some challenging new realities that the cabinet will be shaped in order to address.The swearing-in ceremony is expected to begin at 10:30 a.m. eastern at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.The swearing-in ceremony comes nearly two months to the day after Carney’s last one. Story continues below advertisement After he was elected as Liberal party leader, which had also made him prime minister leading up to the federal election as the leader of the party that formed government, Carney shuffled the federal cabinet and is now expected to do so aga...

International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News. The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”The newly released figures also suggest that 2025 could see an even greater number of claims by foreign students. In the first three months of the year, international students filed 5,500 asylum claims, a 22 per cent increase from the same period last year. 2:08 Canadian universities, colleges face cash crunch b...

A 24-year-old Quebecer is celebrating one of the closest victories in the history of federal politics after flipping a Bloc Québécois seat to Liberal by an incredibly narrow margin. “It’s been a rollercoaster. From winning to not winning, and then winning again,” said Tatiana Auguste, the new member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Que., northeast of Montreal.She won her seat by a single vote, following a judicial recount by Elections Canada. 1:59 Bloc Québécois loses seats but gains power in Ottawa “It still feels a little bit surreal,” she said on Mother’s Day, with her mom looking on during the interview. Story continues below advertis...