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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will face its first confidence vote over the federal budget on Thursday evening, with another to follow the next day. The House of Commons is set to vote Thursday on a Conservative subamendment to the budget, followed by a Bloc Quebecois amendment vote on Friday.A spokesperson for Government House Leader Steven Mackinnon told Global News that Carney has made the determination to make both issues confidence votes.“They are matters of confidence,” communications director Mark Kennedy said.NDP interim leader Don Davies told reporters his seven-member caucus will vote with the minority Liberals to defeat the Conservative measure, which seeks to add its s...

Alberta teachers are taking Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP government to court for passing a law to end their strike and for using the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to do it. Jason Schilling, head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, said on Thursday the union has filed an application asking for a judge to immediately pause the law until a full constitutional challenge is heard.The case over Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is scheduled to be heard Nov. 20 in Edmonton Court of King’s Bench.“In this action, teachers will ask the court to declare that the government’s use of the notwithstanding clause was improper and invalid,” Schilling told reporters.He said the law violates teachers’ rights to freedom of association and expression, and, if left unchallenged, sets a dangerous precedent th...

Trump's lawyer faced pointed questions from the conservative-led court on Wednesday about the president's use of a national security statute to pursue his tariff agenda. Source link

By Anja Karadeglija The Canadian Press Posted November 5, 2025 7:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal government says it will restore a privacy provision to the Online Streaming Act, more than two years after it was accidentally deleted. The federal budget released this week says the government will make a legislative amendment to “restore the right to privacy of individuals to the interpretation provisions and remove a duplicative provision relating to official languages.”In 2023, the Online Streaming Act updated Canada’s Broadcasting Act to capture online streamers like Netflix....