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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly accused the Liberal government of entrenching Canada’s economic dependence on the United States. But political scientists say the reality is more complex, noting a broad trend toward continental integration of national economies that began almost 40 years ago.On the federal election trail, Poilievre decried a “lost Liberal decade” of economic stagnation. He blamed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government for failing to advance resource projects, allowing Canadian energy to head to the United States at a discount and losing billions of investment dollars to American companies.It is “kind of silly” to blame Trudeau for Canada’s economic reliance on the United States because it has been a “bipartisan project” since the late 1980s, s...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size John Hogan is the new leader of the provincial Liberals and new premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Hogan, the former health minister, handily beat rival John Abbott in a leadership contest vote released today at the party’s convention in St. John’s.He picked up 77.4 per cent of the points needed under the party’s voting system, which assigns points for the number of votes won in each of the province’s 40 electoral districts.The party said 9,895 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians cast their ballots, which it said demonstrated “a high level of engagement and enthusiasm for the future direction of the Party and the province.” Get breaking National news For...

The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament. Charlie Angus, who did not run in the last election after representing the northern Ontario riding of Timmins — James Bay for more than two decades, — called the election a “catastrophic loss” following a campaign that spent too much time selling leader Jagmeet Singh and not enough time pitching its policies.“I think it’d be really dangerous to tell ourselves that we were simply the victims of strategic voting, and it was the times and there was nothing we could do,” Angus said. “We stopped being the New Democratic Party of Canada some time ago and we became a leader-driven movement.“When it came to the biggest econo...

The prospective new riding for federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is home to wheat fields, dinosaur bones and Nickelback. It’s also Tory country through and through.Battle River—Crowfoot in central Alberta is a long way from the Ottawa riding that was Poilievre’s home base for more than 20 years, as he seeks to regain a seat in the House of Commons.Damien Kurek, a three-time elected member of Parliament, is relinquishing his seat in Battle River—Crowfoot to allow Poilievre to run in a byelection there later this year, the Conservative Party of Canada announced Friday.Kurek walked to victory in Monday’s election with 82 per cent of the vote, one of the most lopsided races in the country. Poilievre lost his seat in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjo...

By Lisa Johnson The Canadian Press Posted May 3, 2025 9:34 am Updated May 3, 2025 9:36 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta’s New Democrats are set to vote Saturday on whether or not to allow new members to opt out of joining the federal NDP. For the provincial party, automatic membership in its federal counterpart has long been seen as a political albatross. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around th...

More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major impact on the election.Almost a third (32 per cent) said it had a moderate impact, while 26 per cent said it had a minor impact on the election’s outcome.Only nine per cent of Canadians said misinformation had no impact on the election at all.The poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, suggests that people in Alberta were the most likely to think misinformation affected the election, at 86 per cent. Story continues below advertisement ...

As Liberal red and Conservative blue swept across the country in Canada’s federal election earlier this week, NDP orange dwindled. While many voters who left the party turned to the Liberals, many others flipped to the Conservatives —  with affordability being among the key factors.In Monday’s federal election, the Liberals are projected to have won 168 seats — enough to form a minority government — and the Conservatives sit at 144.But after winning 25 seats in the 2021 election, the NDP plummeted to just seven seats with their leader, Jagmeet Singh, among those who lost re-election.And in ridings that flipped blue, union workers appear to have played a key role.“What you’re seeing happening is this shift of people who are union workers who typically in the past might have gone NDP or Libe...

A newly re-elected Conservative member of Parliament is resigning his Alberta seat to allow Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to run again, the party announced Friday. Poilievre lost his long-held seat in the Ottawa riding of Carleton in Monday’s federal election, leaving the Conservatives without a leader in the House of Commons despite forming the largest official Opposition in Canada’s history.The resignation of Battle River-Crowfoot MP-elect Damien Kurek, who has held the seat since 2019, will allow Poilievre to run in a future by-election.“Pierre Poilievre just finished a remarkable national campaign that received the highest vote share since 1988,” Kurek said in a statement issued by the party.“An unstoppable movement has grown under his leadership, and I know we need Pierre fight...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada has extended an invitation to King Charles III to open Parliament in the coming weeks, multiple sources tell Global News. If accepted, it would be the first time that a sovereign has opened Parliament since Queen Elizabeth II last did so in 1957.Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted and, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be provided by the Palace.When a sovereign opens Parliament, they are the one who delivers the Speech from the Throne that outlines what the government plans for its mandate and immediate priorities.The Liberals are set to form a minority government after Monday’s election, and are projected to h...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 2, 2025 7:20 am Updated May 2, 2025 7:53 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to outline the priorities of his new government this morning four days after Canadians voted in the Liberals for a fourth mandate. Carney will speak to the media and take questions at 11 a.m. EDT.He has promised to move immediately to address ongoing trade tensions with the United States and spoke by phone with U....