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Ottawa’s changes to immigration flows are the latest in a slew of developments putting the governing Liberals — already in a politically precarious position with their minority government — under increasing fiscal pressure this fall, experts warn. With a potential fall economic statement looming over a gridlocked House of Commons, some forecasters warn the Liberals may verge deeper into deficits in an update to the fiscal outlook.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are behind the opposition Conservative Party in the polls, and Trudeau himself has been the target of a revolt within his party as some members of caucus seek to have the leader step aside — calls he has so far resisted.The House of Commons remains ensnared in procedural gridlock despite the Liberals surviving co...

A growing number of former administration officials and advisors to Donald Trump are calling the former U.S. president a “fascist,” pointing in particular to recent comments he has made about “the enemy from within.” When asked during a CNN town hall last week if she thinks Trump is a fascist, U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris replied, “Yes I do.” Later, she brought it up herself, saying Trump would, if elected again, be “a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”Harris was responding to explosive comments made by Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly to the New York Times, who asked him if he believes Trump is a fascist.“Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said...

Donald Trump told supporters Monday he is “not a Nazi,” standing in front of an Atlanta, Georgia rally, denying accusations of authoritarianism during the final week of the U.S. presidential race. His comments come in the wake of recent interviews with former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who claimed Trump, while president, expressed admiration for the loyalty of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals. Kelly made the claims to both The Atlantic and the New York Times, and told the latter that the former president “certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist, for sure.”Comparisons to the Nazi party were only compounded, too, when Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27 in New York City — the same location used to host a pro-Nazi rally in 1939 that saw 20,000 sup...