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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal Party of Canada has announced two leadership debates — one in English and one in French — to be held in Montreal later this month, ahead of the vote to determine their next leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor. On Saturday, the party announced the French debate will take place on Feb. 24, and the English debate the following day.🗓️ Save the dates! pic.twitter.com/NHIK8amywI— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) February 8, 2025The debates fall less than two weeks before the March 9 vote to secure the Liberal Party’s new leader. Story continues below advertisement “This is a time for Liberals across the country to exchange ideas and engage...

The federal body tasked with monitoring elections for foreign interference says it has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s campaign about a Chinese-backed operation that has been spreading disparaging articles online about her. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Election Task Force (SITE) said in a statement Friday that the “information operation” was identified by Global Affairs Canada’s Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM Canada) and traced to a popular WeChat news account linked to China.“RRM Canada detected coordinated and malicious activity about Ms. Freeland,” the statement said.It estimated that between two million and three million WeChat users globally saw the campaign, which included articles published to an anonymous blog that were then spread by over 30 oth...

Demonstrators across America have been turning out in droves to protest President Donald Trump’s early actions. Thousands of people have been gathering in cities across the U.S. this week, with a concentrated push on Wednesday, to decry everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. People protest outside of the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) before Congressional Democrats hold a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2025. Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Protesters in Philadelphia and at state capitol buildings in Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, India...

The Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek is being banned on some Canadian government mobile devices due to “serious privacy concerns” — and other departments are being urged to do the same. An email from the Treasury Board Secretariat’s chief information officer Dominic Rochon shared with Global News says the concerns stem from DeepSeek’s “inappropriate” collection and retention of sensitive personal information.It says the app has already been restricted from government mobile devices managed by Shared Services Canada (SSC), which delivers digital services to many government departments and teams.“I encourage these organizations to work with SSC to further implement the restriction on all department-managed devices,” Rochon wrote in the email sent Thursday.“Organizations not s...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Federal Liberal leadership candidates will have to cross another hurdle Friday to remain in the race — a payment of $125,000 to the party. The party requires candidates to pay a total entrance fee of $350,000 in instalments.The candidates still in the race have made two initial payments of $50,000 each — one payment to launch their campaigns and the second to obtain access to the party’s membership list.Those candidates who meet today’s deadline will still have to make a final payment of $125,000 by Feb. 17 at the latest.On Thursday, former Liberal House leader and leadership candidate Karina Gould said her campaign is doing everything it can to remain in the race, despite not having the r...