CBC - Politics (2 days ago)
With Prime Minister Mark Carney expected to lay out a path forward for an oil pipeline to northwest B.C. on Thursday, senior people around him have had to assuage skittish MPs and at least one cabinet minister about the virtues of the forthcoming "grand bargain" with Alberta.
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The notwithstanding clause allows for premiers or prime ministers to override rulings on legislation that judges have determined would violate sections of the Charter. But the use of the clause, once viewed by many as a political taboo, has become more frequent in recent years.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental laws and offer political support to a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast, CBC News has learned.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada continues to take public safety, transnational repression and foreign interference seriously as it negotiates a trade agreement with India — a country Ottawa iced out over allegations it was involved in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.
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Laws about greenwashing — making a false or misleading statement about the environmental benefits of a product — will remain on the books, but the Liberal government has said it will be making changes aimed at offering businesses more certainty about what runs afoul of the law.
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The Khalistani group Sikhs for Justice will hold its fifth vote in Canada on Punjabi independence in Ottawa on Sunday. Previous rounds of voting have already occurred in the Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto areas, as well as in the U.S., U.K., Italy, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is sitting down with the leaders of the U.K., Germany and the president of the European Council on the sidelines of the G20 to talk about Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns his country is facing "one of the most difficult moments in its history.”
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has had Canada launch a partnership with India and Australia on emerging technologies while at the G20 summit in South Africa. The trilateral agreement aims to have the three democracies work together to diversify supply chains, use clean energy and help with further uptake of artificial intelligence.
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Two of three Sikh separatists arrested for firearms offences have had all charges against them dropped. The third, Inderjit Singh Gosal, replaced Hardeep Singh Nijjar as leader of the Sikh independence referendum campaign in Canada following Nijjar's 2023 assassination.
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An agreement, signed today, between all Canadian provinces, territories, and the federal government, will drop interprovincial trade barriers on many goods except food and alcohol. It's part of an effort to provide businesses with more trade opportunities in light of U.S. tariffs.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are moving closer to reaching a deal on the future of Alberta's energy sector, according to a senior government official, and that memorandum of understanding is likely to include some language about a path forward for the northwest B.C. oil pipeline that Smith has long demanded.
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The Royal Canadian Air Force could be flying brand-new Gripen-E fighters within three to five years, the CEO of Saab said. Micael Johansson raised the stakes in the political and corporate battle over the future of Canada's warplanes, saying the company was ready to establish a manufacturing, assembly and research facility in the country should...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is slated to meet with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi with the explicit focus on expanding the Canada-U.A.E. economic partnership in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, infrastructure and AI.
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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra continued to lash out against the ad campaign that infuriated his president and abruptly ended trade negotiations while on stage in Ottawa Wednesday, accusing Canada of interfering in "electoral politics” south of the border.
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Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia — one of two men tasked with preventing Prime Minister Mark Carney from making decisions in office that would benefit his personal wealth — says the prime minister's ethics screen is activated when there is "even a remote possibility that it is needed.”
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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly pitted two giant defence companies against one another on Tuesday for the future of Canada's fighter fleet, saying the $27-billion contract to buy 88 U.S.-made F-35 jets doesn't deliver enough jobs for workers in this country and that the public expects a better deal.
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Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts.
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Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the media have unfairly focused on Conservative dissent, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters to pay as much attention to criticism levelled against the federal budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday seven more initiatives he's recommending for fast-tracked approval by the government's Major Projects Office — and it includes multibillion-dollar energy and natural resources proposals that Ottawa hopes will deliver a jolt to the tariff-hit economy.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week a second round of projects he's recommending get fast-tracked by his government's Major Projects Office (MPO) as part of his promise to reduce Canada's economic reliance on the U.S. But there are still questions about what a referral to the MPO actually means.
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At the same time that Prime Minister Mark Carney was announcing a new tranche of major projects his government wants to fast-track, including a new gas export terminal, Canada's representatives were trying to shore up the country's climate reputation amongst the international community.
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Days before MPs are set to cast their vote on the Liberal budget, interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques is calling the government's accounting into question, suggesting there's a less than 10 per cent chance it will stay within its deficit targets.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he is not reflecting on his leadership style after two MPs announced they were leaving his caucus — including one who cited the leader's "negative" approach to politics as the reason why he's calling it quits on the party.
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During a G7 meeting in Ontario, France's foreign affairs minister said the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean carried out by the United States since early September violate international law. Colombia, California's governor and the Washington Post also weighed in on the strikes on Tuesday — but Canada has been relatively silent on the U.S....
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A few days before the federal budget was tabled, the CEO of Swedish industrial giant Saab flew to Ottawa to meet with the country's top bureaucrat, fuelling the sense a deal is brewing between the Canadian government and the military manufacturer. Now, the country's king, queen and a delegation of political and business leaders are set to visit...
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The Immigration Department only took a decision to ban one member of the controversial Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap from entering Canada, it told CBC News, contradicting a public claim from a Liberal MP in September that none of them would be allowed in country.
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This is not the week Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wanted to have. Instead of taking a victory lap around the bases, the Conservative ends the week dodging reporters and facing questions about his leadership — after losing one MP to his rivals and another resigning from federal politics altogether. Here's how it played out, according to...
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It can be easy for long stretches to forget about most of the 343 democratically elected members of the House of Commons. But then, every so often, someone who is not the prime minister, the finance minister or the leader of the Opposition does something to steal the headlines.
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