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By Anja Karadeglija The Canadian Press Posted January 14, 2025 7:42 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne plans to reveal his intentions for the Liberal leadership race Tuesday. So far, Ontario MP Chandra Arya and former Montreal MP Frank Baylis are the only two to officially join the contest.However, The Canadian Press confirmed that former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will announce her bid in coming days, and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former B.C. premier Christy Clark are also expected to run. ...

Special counsel Jack Smith said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a much-anticipated report released Tuesday that he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges he believes would have resulted in a conviction had voters not returned Trump to the White House. “The throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit — knowingly false claims of election fraud — and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process,” the report states.The report, arriving just days before Trump is to return to office on Jan. 20, focuses fresh attention on his fra...

By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted January 13, 2025 5:23 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government has paused an incentive program that offered Canadians rebates of up to $5,000 when buying or leasing electric vehicles. In an update on its website, Transport Canada says the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) Program has been paused as “funds have been fully committed.”The department says more than 546,000 vehicles have been sold or leased with incentives through the program since it began in 2019. ...

The federal body established to protect Canada’s electoral process will be monitoring the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership campaign for possible foreign interference as the race to replace Justin Trudeau gets underway. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Election Task Force (SITE) was established in 2019 and includes representatives of CSIS, the RCMP, Global Affairs Canada and the Communications Security Establishment, the country’s signals intelligence agency.Since May 2023, SITE has been active for the 10 byelections that have occurred and tasked with producing public reports about observations of any foreign interference directed at these votes, and Nathalie Drouin, deputy clerk of the Privy Council, said it would do so again.The announcement comes amid concerns that foreign in...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, fresh off a weekend visit with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, says if Ottawa uses an energy embargo to combat Trump’s promised tariffs, it would spark a “national unity crisis.” “Oil and gas is owned by the provinces, principally Alberta, and we won’t stand for that,” Smith told reporters in a virtual news conference Monday.Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly hasn’t ruled out an energy embargo in response to Trump’s promise to impose punishing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian products.Smith said the federal government shouldn’t be making “empty threats,” and it’s not Joly’s call to make. 1:57 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago ...

Millions of Canadians will receive the year’s first carbon rebates from the federal government this week. January payments of the Canada Carbon Rebate will go out on Wednesday to Canadians in eight provinces: Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.The tax-free rebates return 90 per cent of the revenue collected by Ottawa from the federal carbon price levied to households in these provinces.Canada Revenue Agency says the payments are meant to help eligible individuals and families offset the cost of the federal pollution pricing.British Columbia, Quebec and Northwest Territories have their own carbon pricing system for consumers, so residents there don’t receive the federal payment. Yukon and Nunavut use the f...

The NDP wants to stop critical mineral exports to the United States in response to Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs on Canada, party leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday. “I’m calling on all political leaders to support turning off the taps on those critical minerals. Let’s stop the flow of those critical minerals into the States. There’s no quicker way to get Donald Trump to back away from tariffs,” Singh said while speaking to reporters in Ottawa.The U.S. is Canada’s top destination for critical mineral exports, according to data from Natural Resources Canada. In 2023, Canada exported 59 per cent of its mineral exports to the U.S.The total value of the critical minerals trade with the U.S. was $38.2 billion, a drop of 10 per cent from 2022, with $29.8 billion of that made up of Canada’s crit...