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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to launch a federal election campaign on Sunday and send Canadians to the polls as soon as April 28. Here is a running list of the promises announced by the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP ahead of the election.ConservativesMarch 21: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announces a plan to boost training and employment for workers in the skilled trades. Speaking at a news conference in Ottawa, Poilievre said his plan for “more boots, less suits” will expand training halls and provide direct grants and faster access to employment insurance for apprentices in licensed trades.March 20: Poilievre says he wants to create what he calls “shovel-ready zones” with pre-approved permits for major resource or energy projects. Poilievre says the goal is to get per...

By Maan Alhmidi The Canadian Press Posted March 22, 2025 1:03 pm Updated March 22, 2025 1:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government announced expanded access to its dental care program on Saturday, a day before a federal election is expected to be called. The government says all Canadians who have household incomes of less than $90,000 and don’t have private insurance will be able to apply for the program over the month of May.Liberal Health Minister Kamal Kh...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 22, 2025 12:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Nova Scotia has become the latest province to scrap electrical vehicle rebates for Teslas due to the CEO’s association with the U.S. administration and its trade war on Canada. The Progressive Conservative government joined with the NDP and Liberal opposition parties in a vote dropping the electric automaker from the rebate program, which provides subsidies that range from $2,000 to $3,000 per purchase. 2:01 T...

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing two, including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Earlier, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, for the second time since December, sparking concern about whether the fragile ceasefire would hold. In a statement Saturday, Hezbollah denied being responsible for the attack, saying that it was committed to the truce and accused Israel of blaming it for the strikes as a pretext for more attacks.Israel had said that it would respond “severely” to the early Saturday attack from Lebanon when rockets were fired into northern Israel. Israel’s army said the intercepted rockets targeted the Israeli town of Metula.Lebanon’s health ministr...

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States since October 2022. They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they will lose their legal status on April 24, or 30 days after the publication of the notice in the Federal Register.The new policy impacts people who are already in the U.S. and who came under the humanitarian parole program. It follows an earlier Trump administration decision to end what it called the “broad abuse”...

A group of mayors from Canadian border towns issued a plea for help to upper levels of government on Friday as businesses in their communities suffer through the effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and anti-Canadian rhetoric. “We need the federal government to fully understand and look to different sectors to assist them through the tariffs that will be coming,” Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley said during a press conference organized by the Frontier Duty Free Association.“We’re feeling the pain and we’re on the front line,” Bradley said of his city, which shares a border with Michigan. “That’s just the reality of being a border city. There are many joys to being a border city. But there’s also a lot of pain on occasion when issues beyond our control happen.”Over the past few ...

By Nick Murray The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 8:55 pm Updated March 21, 2025 9:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault says he will not run again in the upcoming federal election, set to be called on Sunday. The Liberal party had confirmed Boissonnault as a candidate in Edmonton Centre, a riding he won in 2015, lost in 2019, then reclaimed in 2021.In a statement posted to X Friday night, the former cabinet minister says the pas...