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Government needs opposition support on budget vote to avoid a winter election
OTTAWA - Federal politicians of all stripes say they don't want the coming budget vote to trigger a Christmas election - but nobody's ruling it out, meaning voters might soon have to resist the tempta...
Nov 04, 2025 Federal Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne shows his new shoes he will wear for the budget speech while participating at the making of the shoes, at the Boulet boot factory in St-Tite Que., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Champagne's biggest test yet — selling a 'generational' budget to anxious Canadians
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to sell Canadians on his first-ever budget - one that he's billed as containing both once-in-a generation capital spending projects and austerity measures ...
Nov 04, 2025
Liberal budget earmarks billions for 'bold and swift action' to meet U.S. disruption
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget takes a big swing at making Canada's economy a more attractive place to invest with billions of dollars for infrastructure and new tax opport...
Nov 04, 2025
Manitoba legislature session may be extended to pass 72-hour detention bill
WINNIPEG - In the words of Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, a "game of chicken" is underway at the legislature with Kinew threatening to extend the current session in order to pass a bill that would allow ...
Nov 03, 2025
Alberta to search for a new auditor general even as Wylie offers two-year extension
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is on the hunt for a new auditor general, but the Opposition NDP says they're forcing him out before he finishes investigating a health-care contracting scandal. Audi...
Nov 03, 2025
Halloween display depicting politicians hanging from gallows taken down in Manitoba
STE-GENEVIVE - A Halloween display of politicians hanging from gallows has been taken down from a home in southern Manitoba and police say there will be no charges. The Rural Municipality of Tach conf...
Nov 03, 2025
Montreal mayor-elect is a former refugee who says her victory breaks barriers
MONTREAL - Montreal's mayor-elect said Monday that her background as a child refugee from Chile is proof that people from all over the world can be welcomed and find success in the city - even as the ...
Nov 03, 2025
How it started, how it ended: A chronology of Ontario's ad blitz against U.S. tariffs
OTTAWA - Here is a day-by-day chronology of the controversy over Ontario's advertising campaign against U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods: Tues., Oct. 14: The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the...
Nov 03, 2025
Manitoba premier says people with child porn should be buried under prisons
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew stirred up controversy Monday in denouncing a Supreme Court of Canada ruling on child pornography and calling for offenders to be buried underneath prisons. "Chil...
Nov 03, 2025
Elections Alberta says second legislature member, Angela Pitt, facing recall petition
EDMONTON - A second member of the Alberta legislature is facing a citizen-led petition to recall her from her job. Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure, speaking Monday to a legislature committee, s...
Nov 03, 2025
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