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By Allison Jones The Canadian Press Posted May 16, 2025 11:37 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – Ontario’s integrity commissioner says a former top staffer to Premier Doug Ford broke lobbying rules. Amin Massoudi now runs Atlas Strategic Advisors, but previously served as Ford’s principal secretary until 2022.Integrity Commissioner Cathryn Motherwell’s office posted a notice of non-compliance on its website this week, saying Massoudi failed to comply with lobbying rules during a phone call in 2023.The notice says Massoudi failed to register after lobbying a public office holder about...

The Canadian military has launched a new online recruitment portal to try to modernize the application process and address a personnel crisis. But technical glitches emerged during the launch, prompting concerns that frustrated applicants may be discouraged from joining at a time when the ranks are short more than 14,000 troops and U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Canadian sovereignty.“Issues were discovered in early March, shortly after the new portal’s initial rollout,” Department of National Defence spokesperson Derek Abma said in a statement to Global News.DND acknowledged that initially, the new system was not able to handle the volume of traffic. 1:51 Canada election 2025: Carne...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a committee of Democrats and Republicans Wednesday that the public should not heed medical advice from him, after skirting questions on whether or not he would vaccinate his children. Kennedy faced a bipartisan committee of House representatives, charged with questioning him on proposals for sweeping funding cuts to health care and scientific research for the 2026 fiscal year, and on how he is operating his department. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum / Getty Images The group of lawmakers probed Kennedy’s app...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 15, 2025 12:41 pm Updated May 15, 2025 2:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said Thursday the party plans to launch a legal challenge after losing the federal riding of Terrebonne by a single vote. Blanchet said Friday the party wants a court order to run the vote again because a mail-in vote from a Bloc supporter was returned to sender.Elections Canada admitted this week that a m...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 15, 2025 12:53 pm Updated May 15, 2025 12:55 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday the lack of a federal budget sends “a bad signal” to investors and credit rating agencies. Poilievre told a press conference on Parliament Hill that he wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to “steal his ideas” and offered to help him draft a budget.The Conservative leader listed off policies his party c...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 15, 2025 7:51 am Updated May 15, 2025 7:52 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Elections Canada says officials have vowed to work through the weekend if necessary to complete a vote recount in a central Newfoundland riding. Spokesperson Matthew McKenna says all the ballots cast in the Terra Nova-The Peninsulas riding – more than 41,000 – have been counted for a second time.He says the judge overseeing the process must now hear a...

Elections Canada says the result of a recount in the federal riding of Terrebonne is final, despite a misprint that led to one special ballot being returned to sender. Elections Canada says there was an error on the envelope used to mail a special ballot from Terrebonne, a Quebec riding the Liberals won by a single vote after a recount.Preliminary results indicated that the Liberals had won the riding, but the seat flipped temporarily to the Bloc Québécois after the results were validated.After a recount that gave the seat back to the Liberals, however, CBC News reported that a Bloc voter saw her mail-in ballot returned to her.The agency says an analysis confirmed that part of the return address on the envelope destined for a local Elections Canada office – the last three characters of the...

Canadian Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday Canada needs to maximize its use of existing pipelines before building more — a day after Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated an openness to new pipeline construction. Speaking to reporters ahead of the first meeting of Carney’s new cabinet, the former environment minister claimed less than half of the Trans Mountain pipeline’s capacity is being used.“So I think before we start talking about building an entire new pipeline, maybe we should maximize the use of existing infrastructure,” Guilbeault told reporters.“And, the Canadian Energy Regulator, as well as the International Energy Agency, are telling us that probably by 2028-2029, demand for oil will peak globally, and it will also peak in Canada.”The actual utilization rate of t...

The federal government does not plan to table a federal budget before the House of Commons rises this summer, the finance minister said Wednesday, drawing criticism from opposition parties of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s priorities. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the government’s first priority will be to pass what the Liberals are calling a “middle-class tax cut” by July 1.“That’s step one,” Champagne told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, the first since the new ministry was sworn in Tuesday.“Step two, you’re going to have a throne speech where we’ll outline the Canadian government’s priorities, and there will be a fall economic statement to follow. So those are really the sequence (of events) that you’re going to see.”Champagne said the proposed tax cut wil...

Higher housing supply, not lowering home prices, are the solution for Canada’s housing crisis, Canada’s new housing minister said on Wednesday. Gregor Robertson, the former Vancouver mayor who was sworn in as housing minister in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet on Tuesday, attended the first meeting of the new cabinet on Wednesday.When asked by reporters if he thinks home prices need to go down, he told reporters: “No, I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the market is stable.”Robertson said his work as housing minister will focus on building up supply of affordable housing in Canada.“We need to be delivering more affordable housing. The Government of Canada has not been building affordable housing since the ’90s and we’ve created a huge shortage across Canada,” h...