Murray Wood: Riders' revenge, Putin optics, storm beauty
In this Friday "Who's Hot and Who's Not," Murray Wood looks at the Riders' shot at payback in Calgary, Trudeau...
Tag Archives: Politics
Bloc Québécois supply management bill moves swiftly through Parliament
OTTAWA - A Bloc Qubcois bill to take Canada's supply management system off the table in future trade negotiations has passed swiftly through Parliament, with little opposition. The Senate passed the b...
Jun 18, 2025
CSIS says India is a continued foreign interference threat as Canada renews diplomacy
OTTAWA - The latest annual report of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says Indian officials and their proxy agents in Canada, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian ...
Jun 18, 2025 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shake hands during a meeting at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Calls mount for pause on Canada's digital services tax targeting tech giants
OTTAWA - Ottawa is under pressure to pause digital services tax legislation that directs large tech companies to make a big retroactive payment by June 30. Canadian and U.S. business groups, organizat...
Jun 18, 2025 Minister of Finance and National Revenue François-Philippe Champagne speaks to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Carney heads to Europe on Sunday for NATO, Canada-EU summits
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Europe on the weekend to attend summits on NATO and Canada-EU relations. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed Carney's travel plans today, after he wrappe...
Jun 18, 2025
Carney's contentious major projects bill clears committee
OTTAWA - Running roughshod over the environment. Spawning the next Idle No More movement. Picking economic winners and losers. Prime Minister Mark Carney's Building Canada Act is anything if not a mag...
Jun 18, 2025
Hundreds of groups call on Ottawa to scrap border bill over privacy, rights concerns
OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights and the...
Jun 18, 2025 Asylum seekers try to cross the Canada-U.S. border at Roxham Road from New York state into Quebec on Friday March 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Ghazala Hashmi wins Democratic nomination for Virginia lieutenant governor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The candidates for Virginia's lieutenant governor are set to make history after Sen. Ghazala Hashmi won the Democratic nomination for the position on Wednesday. Hashmi is the firs...
Jun 18, 2025
Carney to return to Ottawa after fruitful summit with G7 leaders in Alberta
KANANASKIS - Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading home to Ottawa today after hosting the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta. He had been meeting with world leaders since Sunday to discuss topics such as U...
Jun 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen during the closing news conference at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., Tuesday, June 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
LGBTQ refugee group says number of requests for help has increased
OTTAWA - An organization that helps LGBTQ+ people file refugee claims says it has seen a spike in pleas for assistance from around the world since 2020. Devon Matthews, program head with Rainbow Railr...
Jun 18, 2025
G7 leaders agree to 'charter' on wildfires, pledging global co-operation
BANFF - Leaders of the G7 have agreed to co-operate on efforts to manage the impacts of devastating wildfires, which are surging for another summer across Canada. The leaders are calling it the Kanana...
Jun 17, 2025
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: A handprint that echoes across 4,000 years
A 4,000-year-old handprint sparks Sarah Mills' imagination in this Mills Minute, as she wonders about the life behind th...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Friday, August 22
Evan talks to MP Buckley Belanger about what he learned from northern leaders, local actor Sophia Peters about a new com...
