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The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool. Dozens of centers are missing out on federal grant payments that were due to arrive Nov. 1. Some say they’ll close indefinitely, while others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments and school districts. The closures mean Head Start students — who come from low-income households, are homeless or are in foster care — are missing out on preschool, where they are fed two meals a day and receive therapy vital to their development.“Children love school, and the fact that they can’t go is breaking their hearts,” said Sarah Sloan, who oversees small-town Head Start centers in...

Polls have closed in municipal elections held across most of Quebec’s approximately 1,100 municipalities. In Montreal, residents have cast their ballots to select a new mayor following Valérie Plante’s decision not to seek a third term.Recent surveys suggest Soraya Martinez Ferrada — a former federal Liberal cabinet minister and current leader of the centrist Ensemble Montréal — is the frontrunner in the race. Ensemble Montréal leader and mayoral candidate Soraya Martínez Ferrada casts her ballot on municipal election day in Montreal, Sunday, November 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes She has portrayed herself as the candidate of change and giving herself four years to solve the problem of homeless encampments. She h...

Prime Minister Mark Carney was counselled to push back during an April call with Donald Trump if the U.S. president revived his complaints about border security, fentanyl from Canada or low defence spending, a newly released memo shows. Federal officials prepared the internal memo to guide Carney’s conversation with Trump following the Liberal party’s April 28 election victory.A concise Canadian summary of the April 29 call, released that day, says Trump congratulated Carney and that the leaders agreed on the importance of working together — as independent, sovereign nations — for their mutual betterment.“To that end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future,” reads Canada’s official readout from the meeting.The memo drafted for Carney, obtained by The Canadian Press through...

As the federal government prepares to release a budget expected to see major new investments and spending along with a higher deficit, Canadians say they’re most concerned about measures to reduce their cost of living, according to a new poll. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 42 per cent of respondents want the budget, set to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, to prioritize helping with the increasing cost of everyday expenses.That number far outpaces Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stated priorities for transforming the Canadian economy — including investing in the Canadian military and national defence (15 per cent), funding major projects and infrastructure (15 per cent), and even measures to mitigate the impact of U.S. tariffs (25 per cent).At the same time, thr...