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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 4:27 pm Updated April 9, 2025 4:28 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two Nova Scotia men are appealing a judge’s dismissal of their court challenge of then-prime minister Justin Trudeau’s move to prorogue Parliament earlier this year. David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos had asked the Federal Court to declare the suspension of Parliament illegal because there must be a “reasonable justification” for hitting the pause bu...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging the “biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history” by targeting three-time serious offenders with maximum life imprisonment. The Conservative Party of Canada unveiled its crime plan Wednesday, proposing to pass what it calls a “Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out” law.Under this policy, anyone convicted of three serious offences will become ineligible for bail, probation, parole or house arrest, Poilievre said at a campaign stop in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday.These three-time serious criminals will serve a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a maximum life sentence, he said.Poilievre added that the proposed law would also designate such perpetrators as “dangerous offenders,” a legal classification that means an offender cannot be r...

China again vowed to “fight to the end” Wednesday in an escalating trade war with the U.S. as it announced it would raise tariffs on American goods to 84 per cent from Thursday. Beijing also added an array of countermeasures after U.S. President Donald Trump raised the total tariff on imports from China to 104 per cent.“If the U.S. insists on further escalating its economic and trade restrictions, China has the firm will and abundant means to take necessary countermeasures and fight to the end,” the Ministry of Commerce wrote in a statement introducing its white paper on trade with the U.S.The government declined to say whether it would negotiate with the White House, as many other countries have started doing.On Friday, China announced a 34 per cent tariff on all goods imported from the U...

Ottawa has exempted a small New Brunswick island off the coast of Maine from Canadian counter-tariffs it imposed on U.S. goods amid President Donald Trump’s trade war — goods the island’s residents rely on for their daily needs. Campobello Island is only accessible year-round by a bridge connecting it to the closest town, Lubec, Maine.Because of its geography, the island’s population of under 1,000 people often travel across the border for gas, groceries and other items, but have faced 25 per cent tariffs on those goods since early March.Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is running for re-election as the Liberal candidate in Saint Maurice-Champlain, said Tuesday that the federal government has granted a “special exemption from previous tariff countermeasures on U.S. consume...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 8:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal and NDP leaders will take their campaigns to Saskatchewan on Wednesday as the federal election race nears the halfway mark. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is set to make an announcement and speak at the First Nations Summit in Vancouver, before making his way to Saskatoon for a campaign event.There are 14 federal ridings in Saskatchewan, which has been a sea of blue in recent federal elections.Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to make an announcement and meet with young supporters and volunteers...