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Finance experts predict Tuesday's spring economic update will contain a number of new economic measures aimed at tackling affordability and the wider economic challenges of the country, and they expect the update will show a smaller-than-forecasted deficit.
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Mark Carney is trying to follow the approach of "values-based realism" in Canada's international relations, which he announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. In practice, standing up for sovereignty and international law isn't always easy and doesn't always happen.
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Once a target of Russian and Chinese economic coercion, Lithuania has turned pressure into policy. By rapidly diversifying trade, severing energy ties with Moscow and investing in defence and tech, the Baltic state built resilience and saw growth. Its experience now offers Canada a cautionary, and increasingly relevant, roadmap.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised regular updates on his government's efforts as Canada continues to work through a U.S. trade war while also seeking to strengthen relationships with other trading partners — and his medium of choice appears to be YouTube.
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The federal government has added Kingston Penitentiary to its list of properties with housing potential, raising the question: what if the "big house" became your house? Documents obtained by CBC reveal interest in building up to 700 units at the historic site.
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That's a question thousands of Canadians who receive a letter back from Canada's prime minister may be asking in the not-too-distant future as the government contemplates a plan to replace some of the people who handle his correspondence with new technology like artificial intelligence.
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A Commons committee has unanimously called for an independent review of Canada's highest military honours, reopening the case of the late Pte. Jess Larochelle. Veterans and MPs argue new evidence warrants reconsideration for the Canadian Victoria Cross, despite past military findings that no Afghan War actions met its exceptionally high standard.
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A surge in military recruiting pushed regular force enrolment to its highest level in decades, with reserves also beating targets. Yet the Canadian Armed Forces are still thousands below 2017 goals. Faster processing and better pay are helping, but training limits and attrition continue to blunt momentum.
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Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use at the federal level as the document turns 44.
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Conservative MPs lined up Wednesday to endorse Pierre Poilievre's continued leadership despite recent stumbles that have left the party on the back foot and facing three more years on the Opposition benches even if privately there are serious doubts about his viability.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will use his newly won majority to push through legislation that the opposition parties have stymied in recent years, saying his immediate focus will be quickly passing affordability measures and a bill designed to turbocharge home construction.
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The Canadian Coast Guard will deploy its new Hermes 900 Starliner drone for Arctic test flights this summer after a federal restructuring shifted surveillance assets to Department of National Defence. With MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones delayed until 2028, civilian operators gain an unexpected operational edge in the Far North.
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As the Liberals gear up for three federal byelections on Monday that could deliver them a majority government, House leader Steven MacKinnon says the government will "continue that impulse of working across party lines" even if it's not required to co-operate to pass legislation.
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The Iran war appears to have ended (if it has ended) with a settlement that neither fully opens the Strait of Hormuz nor keeps it fully closed. The lingering doubts about the Persian Gulf as a source of energy for Europe and Asia, especially if Iran succeeds in its goal of charging tolls for passage, could be good news for Canadian oil and gas —...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney relied on a message of national unity to rally a crowd of thousands of supporters ahead of three closely watched byelections that could secure his Liberals a majority government, keeping them in power for the next three years.
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Saab is pitching a Montreal-based, sovereign data hub to secure Canada's fighter jet contract, arguing it would keep mission-critical data out of U.S. hands. The move challenges Lockheed Martin's F-35 model and amplifies Ottawa's growing unease over data control, AI and strategic dependence.
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Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government to defend private property rights in face of what he claims is a threat posed by a landmark B.C. Supreme Court decision establishing Aboriginal title on private property.
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Despite threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, an American break with NATO remains unlikely. Political constraints, military dependence and mutual interests bind both sides. The real danger involves eroding trust, emboldening Russia and a slow-motion fracture that weakens deterrence without ever triggering a formal divorce.
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