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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 28, 2025 6:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Voters in the upcoming Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in eastern Alberta will be required to write out the name of their preferred candidate, Elections Canada said, because of the unusually high number of people running and past challenges with long ballots. More than 200 people were registered to run as of Monday, which was also the last day to sign up for candidacy.The list includes Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Liberal candidate Darcy Spady, the NDP’s Katherine Swampy and dozens more sponsored...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia Premier David Eby tore into the federal government on Monday after Ottawa slashed ferry fares on the East Coast by 50 per cent. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the rate cuts for the Eastern Canada Ferry Services, which serve P.E.I., Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec and Marine Atlantic, which connects Newfoundland to Nova Scotia, earlier Monday.The fare cuts were a federal Liberal election promise. 1:24 ‘We shouldn’t be giving federal tax dollars to subsidize jobs overseas:’ Poilievre calls for loan to BC Ferries to be cancelled ...

Less than a week after declaring Ontario would be “issuing our own work permits” for asylum seekers, Premier Doug Ford has reversed the plan and is instead asking for the federal government to speed up immigration processing times. At the close of the Council of the Federation, Ford led the charge on behalf of the country’s premiers, lambasting the federal government for delays in processing asylum seekers.Ford claimed at the time it “takes over two years” for asylum seekers to be granted a work permit. He said the province would not be “waiting any longer” and would give out work permits.The federal government said the wait is actually less than two months.On Monday, Ford reversed course and appeared to concede his figures were based on anecdotes. Story continues below advertiseme...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement on affordability in Prince Edward Island on Monday as the date for Canada to reach a trade deal with the U.S. looms. The Prime Minister’s Office says in Carney’s itinerary he will be announcing new measures to lower costs for Canadians.He will then take questions from reporters following the announcement. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. The announcement comes just four days before U.S. President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline for countries around the world to reach a trade deal with his administration.Trump threatened Canada with a 35 per cent tariff on all goods not exe...

U.S. President Donald Trump signalled Friday that he may not reach a deal with Canada, suggesting the northern neighbour will “just pay tariffs.” “We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I think Canada could be one where they’ll just pay tariffs, not really a negotiation.” 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. Trump made the remarks while discussing other trade deals that had been reached with countries ahead of his Aug. 1 deadline.The remarks come just a day after Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters he was feeling “encouraged” following me...

The upcoming federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot has Jennifer Fossen in unknown territory. Fossen is the president of the Camrose & District Chamber of Commerce. In the April federal election, it held a candidate forum. Only one nominee showed up to speak to a half empty room.Three months later, Fossen is hosting another candidate forum, this time in a byelection race featuring Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and the response is, well, off the hook.Fossen said phones at her office have been ringing constantly with people inquiring about the July 29 candidate debate.But all seats are booked and 10 candidates have signed up to speak.“(It) has definitely taken everything to the next level,” Fossen said this week in an interview. Story continues below advertisement ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s new Arctic ambassador will play a key role in preserving sovereignty in the region as the military closely watches the movements of a Chinese icebreaker. Iqaluit resident Virginia Mearns will be Canada’s senior Arctic official on the world stage, following a career with local Inuit governments.“Canada’s Arctic ambassador is going to advance Canada’s polar interests in multilateral forums,” Anand told The Canadian Press in an interview from Inuvik, N.W.T.She said Mearns will “engage with counterparts in both Arctic and non-Arctic states” and “serve as a representative in our diplomatic core.”Anand said Canada will follow through on its $35 million Arctic foreign policy and its commitment to open new consulates in both Alaska and Greenland, ...

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday he’s feeling “encouraged” after meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and American lawmakers in Washington ahead of next week’s tariff deadline. But LeBlanc also suggested that a new economic and security arrangement with the United States may not materialize in time for U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest deadline of Aug. 1.“Canadians expect us to take the time necessary to get the best deal we can in the interest of Canadian workers,” LeBlanc said outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington.“So we are only going to be in a position to accept a deal when the prime minister decides that it is the best deal we can get in the interest of Canadian workers and the Canadian economy.”Trump has sent letters to mu...

The U.S. Justice Department’s No. 2 official met Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The meeting in Florida, which Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he was working to arrange, is part of an ongoing Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following fierce backlash from parts of President Donald Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional records in the Epstein investigation.“Ms. Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability,” attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters outside the federal courthouse in ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday canceling about $9 billion that had been approved for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans look to lock in cuts to programs targeted by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency. The bulk of the spending being clawed back is for foreign assistance programs. About $1.1 billion was destined for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances NPR and PBS, though most of that money is distributed to more than 1,500 local public radio and television stations around the country.The White House had billed the legislation as a test case for Congress and said more such rescission packages would be on the way.Some R...