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Major institutional investors are asking the federal government to give them a reason to invest more at home in the upcoming fall budget, says the Liberal MPs leading budget consultations across Canada. The federal Liberals are in the midst of consultations on the upcoming 2025 budget. While federal budgets typically are tabled in the spring, this one is set to land during the fall session of Parliament.The budget — which doesn’t yet have an exact release date — will be the Liberals’ first under Prime Minister Mark Carney and the first tabled by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who was appointed to that cabinet position in May.The minister and some Liberal MPs are touring Canada to solicit feedback as part of the federal government’s typical pre-budget process.“From our standp...

A week has passed since the Nova Scotia-wide ban on entering the woods came into effect — and some citizens are already testing its limits. A Cape Breton man’s videos went viral over the weekend after he went to the Department of Natural Resources office in Coxheath and announced he was going to go into the woods in protest.“I want to challenge this order in court, and the only way to do that is to get the fine,” Jeffrey Evely said in the video. “So I’m not trying to make trouble for you guys, I just want a piece of Tim Houston and I want to be as accommodating and nice as I can be.”One of the officers replies: “Okay, so I’m ordering you to not.”“Okay, roger that,” Evely replied in the video. Story continues below advertisement Evely, who stood as a political ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal Conservative party has joined the chorus of voices calling for the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang to be added to Canada’s list of terrorist organizations. The gang is suspected to be behind the surge of extortion threats in B.C., Alberta and Ontario that have terrified the South Asian community.It has also claimed responsibility on social media for shooting at buildings, including the recent attack on Bollywood star Kapil Sharma’s cafe in Surrey, B.C.Sources have told Global News the Bishnoi gang is also believed to be linked to the murder of Surrey Gurdwara president and Khalistan independence activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.“Given the terror that they are imposing on the Sou...

A review by The Associated Press shows that several of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the federal courts have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions. Several have helped defend their state’s abortion restrictions in court and some have been involved in cases with national impact, including on access to medication abortion.While Trump has said issues related to abortion should be left to the states, the nominees, with lifetime appointments, would be in position to roll back abortion rights long after Trump leaves the White House.Trump has been inconsistent on abortionTrump has repeatedly shifted his messaging on abortion, often giving contradictory or vague answers.In the years before his most recent presidential campa...

By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted August 10, 2025 2:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A new poll suggests Prime Minister Mark Carney’s popularity is cooling off in the summer, but still remains broadly positive. Abacus Data says the Carney-led Liberal government’s approval dipped to 50 per cent in its latest polling, down two percentage points compared to mid-July and the lowest level since March.Canadians were surveyed in the week after U.S. President Donald Trump levied new 35 per cent tariffs on Canada — seemingly a consequence of failing to secure a new trade deal by the Aug. 1 d...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 9, 2025 3:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Conservative MP is calling on Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault to apologize to American Christian rocker and missionary Sean Feucht after the permits for recent concerts in venues overseen by Parks Canada were revoked. Marilyn Gladu, the Opposition critic for civil liberties, says in a letter dated Friday that denying the permits did not “preserve the principle of inclusion” but had the opposite effect in excluding Feucht and many Canadians who had planned to attend the events.Feucht desc...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in a week’s time, as he continued to raise the prospect of finally reaching an end to the war in Ukraine. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”Trump confirmed the meeting with Putin as Canada said it intends to lower the price cap on Russian oil, alongside Britain and the European Union, to exert “renewed pressure” on Moscow to end the war it started more than three-and-a-half years ago with its invasion.Friday also ma...

A national advocacy group is threatening Nova Scotia with legal action over its decision to restrict travel in the woods, a policy that Premier Tim Houston said was necessary to blunt a brutal wildfire season. The Canadian Constitutional Foundation, which supports legal challenges across the country generally relating to Charter rights, is behind the legal threat, which claims Nova Scotia has overstepped.The group said it supports a provincial burn ban, but Houston’s prohibition on hiking, camping, fishing and picnicking in the woods is a step too far.“We’re creating a culture where we value safety above any other value, including our fundamental freedoms, our freedom to move around our communities,” Christine Van Geyn, the CCF’s litigation director, told Global News. ...

The Conservative Party’s 2025 federal campaign chief Jenni Byrne says not realizing sooner that leader Pierre Poilievre was in trouble in his riding remains one of her main regrets from the election. “I do wish that we had seen what was happening in Pierre’s riding sooner than what we did,” Byrne said in an interview on the “Beyond a Ballot” podcast this week.In the interview, Byrne’s first since the April election, she spoke about the campaign and what’s next for her following her time as one of Poilievre’s top advisers.The longtime political strategist, who also served as an adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper during his years in government, told the podcast that despite her regret about not recognizing trouble in Poilievre’s riding, she isn’t sure they could have done much a...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he is ready and willing to amp up his efforts to bring state Democrats, who fled to other parts of the U.S. to block redistricting legislation, back to Texas. Speaking to NBC News from the governor’s mansion on Thursday, the governor warned that Democrats would have to remain out of state for years to prevent the legislation from passing.“We are in the process as we speak right now of searching for, preparing to arrest Democrats who may be in Texas, may be elsewhere,” he told the outlet. Many seats remain empty during the session in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 5, 2025. A quorum was not present after most Democrat state representatives left Texas to break quorum and block a vote on a Republican plan for congr...