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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 23, 2025 2:54 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province’s daycare centres. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a “broad consensus” that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened.The announcement follows a recommendation to extend the ban to daycares made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affai...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he predicts the Toronto Blue Jays will win the World Series and that he will be watching it from his “man cave” at home, given the sky-high ticket prices. “I’m going to be realistic, so I’ll say the Jays in six,” Ford said at an unrelated press conference on Thursday, alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney, who agreed with Ford’s prediction.The Blue Jays advanced to the World Series with their win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday and will play the L.A. Dodgers — the defending champions.“I’m going to be sitting in my man cave because I’m not paying, whatever, 1,500 bucks for a ticket,” Ford said, referring to the steep prices of tickets being sold online. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the w...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney again said on Thursday that Canadians need to be prepared for “sacrifices” ahead of the federal budget, but isn’t saying yet what those will be. During a joint press conference with Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Thursday, Carney was asked what those sacrifices might be after he had said in a speech Wednesday night that Canadians must be prepared.“We’ll have a budget and all aspects of the budget will reveal that,” Carney said on Thursday.However, Carney reiterated that the federal government would “maintain support to Canadians, particularly those who are most vulnerable.” Get daily National news Get the day's top news, politica...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 23, 2025 9:22 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal government is expected to pitch tougher bail and sentencing standards for violent crime in legislation Thursday. A news release said Justice Minister Sean Fraser will speak to reporters about the bill in the afternoon. 2:07 Liberals to introduce bail reform legislation Prime Minister Mark Carney said last week the legislation would make bail mor...

Just three years after Canada called China a “disruptive global power,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now views Beijing as a strategic partner in a dangerous world. Anand told The Canadian Press on Monday that a strategic partnership with China means going beyond allowing individual irritants to strain the entire relationship and permitting Canada to advance its economic and security interests.“It’s necessary for us to lay the foundation, if we are going to find areas where we can further co-operate,” she said. 2:44 Canada’s trade war with US, China fractures Carney’s ‘Team Canada’ approach “There are going to always be chal...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his comments about the RCMP Wednesday and denied saying former prime minister Justin Trudeau should be in jail. “That’s not what I said,” he said on Parliament Hill when asked about a recent interview on a YouTube channel.In that interview, which ran on the Northern Perspective channel last week, Poilievre called the RCMP’s leadership “despicable” and accused it of covering up for Trudeau.“Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have involved jail time,” he said. “Trudeau broke the Criminal Code when he took a free vacation from someone with whom he had government business.”“If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged,” Poilievre added in the interview. Story continue...

The five official candidates for the federal NDP leadership will get their first chance to sell themselves to party members at a forum in Ottawa on Wednesday evening. The forum is being hosted by the Canadian Labour Congress and will see CLC president Bea Bruske hold one-on-one discussions with each of the candidates.Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis, Alberta MP Heather McPherson, union leader Rob Ashton, B.C. city councillor Tanille Johnston and organic farmer Tony McQuail have all been accepted as candidates in the race to replace Jagmeet Singh, who resigned after the last election.MP Don Davies is serving as the interim leader. 3:21 Indian agent alleged to be behind Jagmeet Singh surveillance ...

Opposition parties are being “cavalier” about the possibility of triggering another federal election, says Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon — something he believes Canadians do not want. MacKinnon made the comments Wednesday as opposition parties publicly laid out their demands for the upcoming federal budget, as well as their various red lines for supporting it.The minority Liberals need at least three additional votes to pass the budget, which is treated as a confidence vote. If it fails, the Parliament will be dissolved and a new election will be triggered — just over six months after the last one.“We have a minority Parliament, but we do believe we have a mandate,” MacKinnon told reporters ahead of the Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa.“If there has to be an election, we will confi...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to deliver an economic speech to Canadians on Wednesday, just two weeks before the hotly anticipated federal budget. It will come as a new report from Desjardins estimates the federal budget deficit could be the highest in 30 years, outside of the Great Recession and Covid-19 pandemic years.The federal government is expected to deliver its budget on Nov. 4, which will include details on Canada’s defence spending commitments, as well as a clearer picture of how high the deficit could climb.It isn’t clear yet exactly what details for the economy Wednesday’s speech may include, but it comes amid growing warnings that Canada will see a significant deficit.Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog estimated last month that the annual deficit could climb to $68.5 billion this ye...

The Department of National Defence has quietly cancelled a contract with a Canadian firm to refurbish armoured vehicles to be delivered to Ukraine — but the federal defence minister won’t say why. Defence Minister David McGuinty was pressed about the contract at the House of Commons national defence committee on Tuesday as part of a general briefing on Canada’s defence spending and NATO commitments.Conservative defence critic and committee vice-chair James Bezan said the contract with Armatec Survivability in Dorchester, Ont., near London, was for 25 light armoured vehicles to be refurbished by the company, but that none of those vehicles had been delivered to Ukraine and the contract had been “paused or cancelled.”“A decision has been made to nullify the contract with that company present...