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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 25, 2025 9:10 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will address his caucus on Sunday as they prepare to return to the House of Commons without him in the chamber. Poilievre’s remarks are scheduled to be open to the media.The Conservatives won 144 seats in the April 28 election but Poilievre’s seat was not one of them. 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. ...

After an election which saw the Conservatives campaign heavily on crime while the Liberals promised stricter measures for offences like violent car thefts, the new minority Liberal government has a stack of new crime policies to implement. Lisa Kerr, an associate professor at the Queen’s University law school, said the proposals are “all, generally speaking, in the direction of being tougher on crime, but in ways that are targeted to more serious offenders.”She said they will “likely still preserve discretion for Crown prosecutors and judges to respond in appropriate ways to individual cases.”The proposals include tougher bail and sentencing guidelines for some crimes, and the creation of new criminal offences involving intimidation at schools and places of worship, as well as online sexpl...

New data from the federal government shows demand for jobs is on the rise, with the number of users and views on the Canada Summer Jobs portal up roughly 50 per cent compared with last year. At the same time, the number of jobs available on that portal has not kept pace with the rising number of potential applicants amid what some experts are calling a “brutal” summer job market.Following a report from Global News on Thursday on the challenges facing young Canadian workers trying to find summer jobs, the Ministry of Employment and Social Development Canada sent a statement to Global News that includes data on the traffic on its Canada Summer Jobs portal. 3:25 Carney’s cabinet begins job of deli...

The Conservative Party of Canada came out victorious following federal election recounts in two ridings in Eastern Canada, both of which the Opposition won by only a handful of votes. After a recount process that took nearly two weeks, Elections Canada announced Friday that Conservative Jonathan Rowe had defeated Liberal Anthony Germain in the rural Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova—The Peninsulas by just 12 votes.The result reverses the first tally of the ballots after the April 28 election, which had Germain ahead by 12 votes.Rowe’s win gives the Conservatives 144 seats in the House of Commons, and brings the Liberals down to 169, which is three seats shy of the threshold for a majority government. The Bloc Quebecois has 22, the NDP has seven and the Green Party has one.In a video posted...

A new poll suggests more than half of Canadians say they understand why Alberta might want to split from Canada — even if almost two-thirds say they don’t want that to happen. The Leger survey, which polled 1,537 Canadians between May 16 and 18, suggests that 55 per cent of Canadians understand Albertans’ desire for independence.Because the poll was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.When it comes to Albertans, 70 per cent of them said they understand why their province might want to become an independent country.The poll suggests 63 per cent of men say they grasp what’s driving Alberta separatism, while 48 per cent of women report the same.While 77 per cent of Conservative voters said they understand the reasons behind the separatism movement, only 48 per cent of Lib...

An image used by U.S President Donald Trump as evidence of a white genocide in South Africa, during a meeting with its president Cyril Ramaphosa this week, was pulled from footage captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Reuters fact-checking report found. The news agency confirmed that the photograph Trump showed Ramaphosa was a screenshot from a Reuters video that was published on Feb. 3. 6:12 Trump confronts South Africa president over claims of white farmer ‘genocide’ Previous Video Next Video Story continues below advertisement...

By Sarah Ritchie The Canadian Press Posted May 23, 2025 2:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size At least six members of Parliament are asking their colleagues to support their bid to become the next Speaker of the House of Commons, including the last man to hold that job, Greg Fergus. Former deputy Speaker Chris d’Entremont and fellow Conservative MP Tom Kmiec have also sent emails to MPs asking for their support. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney says tariffs were part of the discussions he had when meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Ottawa on Friday. Carney spoke to Global News outside West Block after the meeting concluded and was asked if tariffs were part of the discussion.“Of course, we discussed tariffs,” Carney said.The meeting included U.S. Democrats Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Amy Klobuchar and Peter Welch, and Republican Kevin Cramer. 5:45 Tariffs set to push grocery prices higher Trending Now ...

A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s foreign enrolments, according to Reuters and The Associated Press. District Judge Allison Burroughs, an appointee of Democratic former president Barack Obama, issued the temporary restraining order freezing the policy, Reuters reported Friday.On Thursday, the administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.A U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement accused Harvard of creating “an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students.”The adm...

By David Baxter The Canadian Press Posted May 23, 2025 11:37 am Updated May 23, 2025 11:38 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Kathy Borrelli has won the Ontario riding of Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore after a judicial recount confirmed her victory today by just four votes. The Liberals called for a judicial recount, after the initial validated results following the election on April 28 saw incumbent Liberal Irek Kusmierczyk lose by 77 votes.The recount beg...