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By Sarah Ritchie The Canadian Press Posted October 7, 2025 2:06 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections went before a House of Commons committee today, where MPs asked them whether they’re actually achieving their aims. Tomas Szuchewycz represented the Longest Ballot Committee at a meeting of the procedure and government affairs committee.He was listed as the official agent for hundreds of people in recent elections, and his group signed up more than 200 people to run against Pierre Poilievre in the summer byelection that r...

The union of striking Canada Post workers is blaming a “downward spiral of government intervention” for the ever-worsening labour dispute, saying Ottawa’s recent actions have “completely ruined” the current round of negotiations. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) launched a national strike nearly two weeks ago after the federal government announced changes to the Crown corporation’s business that would see reduced mail delivery, post office closures and the phase-out of door-to-door service.Since then, Canada Post has presented new offers that the union says are “worse” than the ones tabled and rejected by workers earlier this year — something CUPW lays squarely at the government’s feet.“The cuts announced by the government are what Canada Post wanted to see,” the union’s nationa...

By Liam Casey The Canadian Press Posted October 7, 2025 1:36 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ottawa. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the federal government should reconsider its position after denying Marineland permits to move them to an aquarium in China.Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson told Marineland on Monday she would not reconsider her position and said animal welfare is the purview of the O...

The Alberta Teachers’ Association had some harsh words for the provincial government as it defended the decision by Alberta’s 51,000 teachers to walk off the job Monday, the first day of a provincewide teachers strike. During a press conference Monday morning in Edmonton, ATA president Jason Schilling repeated teachers’ call for more resources for overcrowded schools.“We’re tired of a public education system that is treated like an inconvenient cost instead of a valued investment for our future,” Schilling said.“We are tired of a lack of resources for teaching and support for the students who we teach. We did not become teachers to leave our classrooms behind and our students in this way. We became teachers because we want to make a difference.” ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, where he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump to talk trade and tariffs. This will be the second meeting between the two leaders in the Oval Office since Trump launched a trade war against Canada.“The Prime Minister’s working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.,” Carney’s office said in a statement last week.Carney is expected to arrive at the White House at 11:30 a.m. eastern and the meeting with Trump is expected to start at 11:45 a.m., his office said Monday.Around 12:15 p.m., Carney will “attend an official working luncheon given by the President.”Speaking to reporters on Monday evening, Trump said Carney is “coming probably to talk about tariff...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. is imposing an additional import tariff on foreign-made heavy trucks entering the country, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday. The new tariffs will go into effect on Nov. 1.“Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump said in a post on his social media website Truth Social.The announcement comes a day before Trump is set to host Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House, with trade dominating the agenda between the two leaders. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, po...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 6, 2025 4:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province and Quebec are united in their desire to resist federal overreach. During a speech to a business group in Montreal, Smith said Alberta and Quebec are frustrated with a federal government that wants to impose its will on provinces.As an example she used Ottawa’s decision to ask the Supreme Court to set limits on how Quebec and other provinces can invoke the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause.Smith says she supports Quebec’s pre-emptive use of that clause...

The federal government is punting responsibility for 30 whales at Marineland back to Ontario, as a deadline from the struggling theme park over the fate of the belugas rapidly draws closer. On Friday, Marineland warned that without an immediate financial bailout from the federal government, “for ongoing whale care until a suitable relocation can be arranged,” the company may be forced to declare bankruptcy or euthanize the animals.“Our only options at this point are to either relocate the whales or face the devastating decision of euthanasia,” the Niagara Falls, Ont., attraction said in a letter to the federal government, which was shared with Global News.On Monday, Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson called Marineland’s request for federal funding “inappropriate” and said she inten...

The federal government is shifting when it releases the budgets going forward, a move that comes after the decision announced last month to release Budget 2025 on Nov. 4. This means the economic update, which normally occurs near the end of the year, will now be pushed to the spring of each year under Prime Minister Mark Carney.In a release from the Department of Finance, the government says this move is aimed at “modernizing” the budget timeline to better line up with the timelines of other sectors and industries like “builders, businesses, investors, provinces, territories, and municipalities.”“Starting with Budget 2025, the federal budget will be tabled in the fall, with an economic and fiscal update released in the spring,” the release said.“This change will provide the certainty and p...

France’s new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis and leaving French President Emmanuel Macron with few options. The French presidency said in a statement Monday that Macron, who has been hitting record lows in opinion polls, has accepted his resignation.Lecornu had replaced his predecessor, François Bayrou, in September to become France’s fourth prime minister in barely a year during a prolonged period of political instability.French politics have been in disarray since Macron called snap elections last year that produced a deeply fragmented legislature and a political impasse. Far-right and left-wing lawmakers hold over 320 seats at the National Ass...