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The Liberal party has set new rules on who can vote in the leadership race. But some experts say it might not be enough to mitigate fears of foreign interference. The party’s national board of directors met Thursday evening to decide on the initial rules of the Liberal leadership contest that will choose Trudeau’s successor.According to a press release from the Liberal party, the voting will conclude on March 9 and the new leader — and by extension, prime minister — will be announced on the same day.The cutoff date to become a member or registered supporter and be eligible to vote is Jan. 27.The board also updated the requirements for who can vote in this leadership contest. Eligible voters must:be at least 14 years of agesupport the purposes of the partybe a Canadian citizen, have status ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says she won’t be running to become the next Liberal party leader who will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Joly, who has been viewed as one of the prominent potential candidates, announced her decision to reporters in Ottawa Friday morning.In a statement posted on her official X account, she said she will focus on her role as foreign affairs minister in the face of the threat of tariffs from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.“Over the past week, I have spoken with dozens of friends, colleagues and close advisors; many of whom have encouraged me to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party,” Joly wrote.“While I know I am ready to become the fir...

The Liberal party will announce its new leader on March 9 and will restrict voting eligibility to citizens and permanent residents as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to step down. The party’s national board of directors met Thursday evening to decide on the initial rules of the Liberal leadership contest that will choose Trudeau’s successor.According to a press release from the Liberal party, the voting will conclude on March 9 and the new leader will be announced on the same day.Party members have until Jan. 23 to enter their name in the leadership race. The entry fee is $350,000. 1:20 Trudeau resignation not enough to keep Liberals in power, polling suggests ...

With just days to go before Donald Trump becomes U.S. president once again, Ottawa has been looking at a list of options that could face retaliatory tariffs if he imposes 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods. Reports of the potential list began emerging in media reports citing sources in November. In recent days, Canadian outlets including Global News confirmed that there are a range of items currently being considered.Among those are items like orange juice from Florida and steel from Michigan and Pennsylvania, but those are a small number of examples on the extensive list being considered, Global News has learned.Experts say a proportional response from Canada to whatever is imposed by Trump is looking likely.“For sure we’re going to have tariffs imposed on us by the Trump administr...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 9, 2025 5:54 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his focus in the next federal election will be on ending the carbon price, even with the threat of tariffs from the incoming Trump administration. Poilievre says the carbon price is essentially a tariff on Canadians imposed by their own government.Speaking to reporters this afternoon for the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign, Poilievre again demanded that Trudeau call a national election instead. ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric about merging the U.S. with Canada is distracting people from the costs Americans will face as a result of steep tariffs on Canadian goods. Speaking to CNN on Thursday in his first media interview since announcing his intention to resign, Trudeau also pushed back on the idea of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, which Trump has increasingly spoken about in press conferences and on social media.“That’s not going to happen,” Trudeau said.“What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who’s a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation, to take away from the conversation around 25 per cent tariffs on oil and gas, and electricity and steel and aluminum and lu...

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is calling on the federal government to restore clarity to the upcoming tax filing season by pre-emptively nixing its proposed changes to capital gains taxes. Those measures, which would see the taxable portion of capital gains rise to two-thirds from half in some circumstances, are currently in limbo and at risk of not being made law.The Canada Revenue Agency nonetheless intends to administer the changes outlined in the Liberal government’s proposal. A Department of Finance official confirmed as much in a statement to Global News this week, citing “Parliamentary convention” and a need for “consistency and fairness” for taxpayers.But the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said in a statement Thursday that going ahead with the controversial changes in a period of ...

The threat of economically damaging tariffs on Canadian goods is looming larger as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws closer — and there is little Canada can do to fight back against the tools at Trump’s disposal. Although Congress typically oversees tariff and tax policy, Trump has broad executive authority to impose tariffs for national security reasons. That’s how he justified slapping tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum in 2018, which kicked off a cross-border trade war during Trump’s first term.This time, Trump may go further.CNN reported Wednesday, citing multiple sources, that the president-elect is considering declaring a national emergency to provide legal justification for universal tariffs on foreign imports, including the 25 per cent levy he’s threatened ...

The fate of Canada’s largest proposed carbon capture and storage project is even more uncertain after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement this week amplified existing unknowns around the future of energy and climate policy in Canada, experts say. The $16.5-billion high-profile project in question would capture harmful carbon dioxide emissions from the oilsands, Canada’s heaviest-emitting sector.It would be built by the Pathways Alliance, a consortium whose members include some of Canada’s largest energy companies.But industry watchers say the project’s future is cloudy due to current political turmoil and the likelihood that a new federal government will be elected this year.“I can’t imagine a huge project like that could really move forward in a time like right now,” ...

Donald Trump has sent world leaders scrambling with his plans for stiff tariffs on imports and recent assertations that the U.S. should take over or take control of various countries, territories and landmarks — but Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, doesn’t seem to be taking the bait. Sheinbaum took a swipe at the president-elect on her daily press briefing broadcast Wednesday morning, giving a sarcastic history lesson directed at Trump after he proposed the Gulf of Mexico be renamed to Gulf of America.Trabajamos por cumplir el derecho a una vivienda digna para las y los mexicanos que más lo necesitan https://t.co/EAZtmajOtG— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) January 8, 2025 Story continues below advertisement Standing before a global map, and along...