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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal NDP has selected Vancouver-Kingsway MP Don Davies to serve as the party’s interim leader. It comes as the party gears up to hold a leadership contest to replace Jagmeet Singh, who announced plans to step down following the New Democrats’ poor showing in the April 28 federal election.In a statement, the party said the NDP’s Federal Council had made the decision in consultation with its reduced caucus. 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. “While the recent election results were not what we hoped for, our co...

The film and streaming industry is the latest area of focus for U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariff strategy, but experts say there are many challenges to imposing tariffs on production companies. What has Trump said about the film industry? Leading up to the election, Trump campaigned on reviving domestic manufacturing and production in the United States. Story continues below advertisement On Sunday night, Trump took to social media saying, “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Na...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2025 4:28 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will deliver a livestreamed address Monday afternoon to outline the province’s path forward with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. Smith has said she will be looking to strike a “What’s Next” panel to poll Albertans on issues they want to see addressed after last week’s federal election. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. ...

By David Baxter The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2025 11:13 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The NDP national council is scheduled to meet Monday night to pick an interim leader. Jagmeet Singh announced on election night that he would step down as soon as an interim leader was chosen.The NDP was reduced to just seven seats in the election on April 28 and no longer holds official party status.Two party officials say the NDP caucus met twice last week to discuss who will lead the party until a leadership race can be completed. ...

By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted May 5, 2025 8:35 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s Milton East–Halton Hills South riding has flipped to the Liberals after a vote validation process. Elections Canada’s validated results indicate that Liberal candidate Kristina Tesser Derksen received 32,130 votes, while Conservative candidate Parm Gill received 32,101 votes – a difference of 29 votes.The Liberals’ minority government is now back up to 169 seats, while the Conservatives now count 143 seats.On Thursday, the federal riding of Terrebonne in Quebec went from the Liberals’ ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was advised to press U.S. President Donald Trump on the close integration of the Canadian and American economies — with a particular focus on America’s reliance on Canadian energy and minerals — ahead of his Nov. 29 dinner at Trump’s Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, according to documents obtained by Global News through a federal Access-to-Information request. The briefing notes prepared for Trudeau were released days before Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, heads to Washington for a White House meeting Tuesday with Trump. It will be Carney’s first meeting with the U.S. president since Carney became prime minister and Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with a Canadian prime minister since Trudeau’s Mar-a-Lago visit.Carney and Canadian officials will, at the very ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be watched closely by Canadians infuriated by Donald Trump — and by an anxious business community looking for tariff relief — when he meets with the U.S. president Tuesday in Washington. After months of Trump’s annexation threats, the newly elected prime minister will be tasked with a delicate balancing act — showing strength while maintaining Canada’s place in a critical North American trade pact the president’s tariffs have sought to upend.“My government will fight to get the best deal for Canada,” Carney said Friday in his first news conference since the election.The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, called CUSMA, was negotiated during the first Trump administration. Trump at the time called it the best deal ever and Canadian officials declared it a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump “seemed positively delighted” about the impact he had on Canada’s federal election, a U.S. journalist said while recounting a recent interview with the president. Ashley Parker was one of three writers at The Atlantic who interviewed Trump in the Oval Office for an article published late last month, before Canadians elected a Liberal minority government in last week’s election.The interview transcript includes a brief section on Canada, where Trump again said he is serious about making Canada an American state, and mused about the “close” election race between the Liberals and the Conservatives.“Trump sort of gleefully said, ‘Once I became a presence in the Canadian elections, I really turned it into a close call; I kind of threw it from the Conservatives to the...

Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay isn’t pointing the finger at Pierre Poilievre for the party’s loss in last week’s federal election, but he does think members of his team need to go and that the party itself needs “fine-tuning.” MacKay, who served multiple roles under former prime minister Stephen Harper and ran against Poilievre for the party leadership in 2022, says “difficult” and sometimes “painful” conversations will be had on what went wrong for the Conservatives.While he says tensions exist within the party and with some provinces, MacKay doesn’t believe that’s what led to a fourth Liberal mandate.“I don’t think it’s indicative of a party in crisis — it’s indicative of a party that’s in need of some fine-tuning, perhaps some policy and communications adjustments,” h...

Prime Minister Mark Carney has many foreign policy issues on his plate — and they’re not all about U.S. President Donald Trump. Here are six of the key challenges Ottawa will be navigating in the coming months during a turbulent time in world politics.In just six weeks, Carney will welcome his leading counterparts to Kananaskis, Alta., for the Group of Seven leaders’ summit. Story continues below advertisement Trump is invited to attend, as are the leaders of France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and Italy, as well as the European Union. The summit sees G7 leaders take stock of the world’s challenges and sign a communiqué that sets the tone for other industrialized democracies.When Canada last hosted a G7 summit in 2018, Trump refused to sign the closing communiqué...