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At Kamala Harris‘ campaign rally in Detroit on Tuesday, former U.S. president Barack Obama told the crowd his “palms are sweaty, knees weak, my arms are heavy” over having to speak on stage after rapper Eminem. Both Obama, 63, and Eminem, 52, attended the rally to promote Vice-President Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 American presidential election.“I have done a lot of rallies, so I don’t usually get nervous,” Obama told the cheering crowd. “But I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem.”The former president — a known music lover — then recited several lines from Eminem’s song Lose Yourself, but adapted the lyrics to be in first-person.Harris’ supporters grew raucous as they shouted support and waved campaign signs while Obama rapped. Story continues below advertisement ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government is set to announce major changes to Canada’s immigration system on Thursday, three sources tell Global News. It comes amid a push from up to 30 backbench Liberal MPs to have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quit.One of those sources said there will be a reduction in the number of permanent residents admitted to Canada on an annual basis in future years and changes to temporary immigration streams.Canada has planned to admit 500,000 permanent residents in 2025 and had planned to maintain this target in 2026. The number of permanent residents admitted on an annual basis has increased by 59 per cent since the Liberals first came to power. ...

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante will not be seeking re-election in the 2025 municipal election. Plante was first elected to the city’s top job in 2017, beating out then-mayor and former Liberal cabinet minister Denis Coderre. In 2021, she won a second mandate. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. As well as being mayor of Montreal, Plante is also mayor of the downtown Ville-Marie borough and has served as leader of Projet Montréal since December 2016.The 50-year-old politician first came onto the municipal scene when she was elected to city council in 2013. Trending Now Plante is expected to hold a news c...

A debate has ground work in the House of Commons to a halt for weeks, but a new poll suggests that most Canadians are not even aware it’s happening. In a new survey from polling firm Leger, 55 per cent of respondents said they had not heard about the procedural issues that have gridlocked Parliament for more than 12 sitting days.The issue stems from a privilege motion that was raised by the Conservatives about a green-tech fund that was found to have misspent government money.The Tories have vowed to continue debate on their motion until the Liberals hand over unredacted documents about the fund to Parliament and the RCMP. 2:27 Conservatives say Liberals ‘paralyzed Parliament’ by refusing to ha...

Former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani must turn over control of his Manhattan penthouse apartment and a number of valuable possessions to two election workers to whom he owes a nearly US$150-million defamation judgment, a U.S. judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Lewis Liman of the South District of New York federal court in Manhattan said Giuliani has seven days to put the Madison Avenue apartment and a list of luxury items — including several watches, jewelry, furniture, sports memorabilia and a vintage Mercedes — into a receivership that will be controlled by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.The two women will also be entitled to legal fees Giuliani says he’s still owed by Trump’s 2020 campaign, estimated to total around US$2 million, the judge ruled.Control of the Manhattan pe...

The Liberal cabinet is doubling down on support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he faces scrutiny over his leadership amid a growing internal party revolt to push him to step down. Up to 30 Liberal MPs have signed an internal document calling on Trudeau to step aside, which is expected to be raised at the next caucus meeting on Wednesday.Several ministers put up a united front ahead of a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying they back Trudeau in leading the Liberal Party and the country.“It’s a large tent and people are entitled to their opinions … and mine is that I support this prime minister unequivocally,” said Marci Ien, minister for women and gender equality and youth“He says that he is staying, he says he’s not going anywhere. But again, I leave that up to him. What I will tell yo...

By Christopher Reynolds The Canadian Press Posted October 22, 2024 2:45 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s labour tribunal says the federal government’s directive to end the countrywide rail shutdown in August marked an “unprecedented” move. In a new document explaining its decision, the Canada Industrial Relations Board said Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon’s instruction that the quasi-judicial body halt work stoppages and start binding arbitration amounted to an order.The tribunal says MacKinnon effectively directed the board to end the strikes and lockouts at Canadian National Railw...

The Trudeau government is threatening to bypass Queen’s Park on funding to address encampments in municipalities, Global News has learned, potentially cutting the province out of decisions on how the money should be spent. In mid-September, Canada’s Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Sean Fraser sent a letter to provinces with an offer of $250 million to help find shelter for people living in encampments.Fraser said while the federal government was initially looking for cost-matching agreements with provinces, the Ontario government didn’t respond to the offer forcing Ottawa to go directly to municipalities.“We will no longer wait for them to muster the political will to act as winter gets closer and lives are put at risk,” Fraser said in a statement shared with Global News.A...

Mark Carney said he is thinking about running for elected office in Canada, but remained guarded about when or where, in a conversation with Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith. The conversation was the clearest signal yet from the former governor of the Bank of Canada that he is eyeing a more political future, and comes weeks after he was tapped to chair an economic advisory task force for the Liberal Party and the prime minister.Carney joined Erskine-Smith on his podcast in an episode published on Friday.The MP for Beaches—East York, who has already announced he will not run in the next federal election, talked about the difference between “giving advice and being a decision maker” before asking Carney, “Are you going to put your name on a ballot at some point?”“I’m taking steps that support t...

A U.S. Republican congressman is calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “threat” to NATO’s stability and success, saying Canada’s defence spending and military contributions aren’t enough. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner made the comments in an op-ed in Newsweek suggesting “Trudeau, not (Donald) Trump, is a threat to the stability and success of NATO” because of the country’s long-standing lag on a plan to hit the agreed upon target for members to spend two per cent of their GDP on defence.This past summer, Defence Minister Bill Blair and Trudeau announced Canada expected to invest at least two per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in defence by 2032, calling it a “credible, responsible, and achievable target date.”Until then, Trudeau had not offered a concrete timeline to hit the two-per-ce...