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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's path back to the House of Commons runs through a rural Alberta riding that has become a hotbed for Western discontent and the independence movement — a potentially tricky situation to navigate for a leader with national ambitions.
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By quashing the digital services tax, Canadian negotiators paid a kind of toll on the road to a trade deal with the U.S., in that they simply kept the talks rolling. But the move could back Canada against the wall on the far thornier issue of supply management.
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Following all of the political sound and fury and sticker shock of last week's NATO summit in The Hague, the question of what Prime Minister Mark Carney's government wants to accomplish with all of that money — on an annual basis — is coming into even sharper focus.
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The Liberal government's proposed border bill would empower police and the country's spy agency to seek information from a wide range of service providers — including medical professionals, banks and car rental companies — without a warrant, government officials spelled out Thursday.
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Canada hasn't explained the rationale that led it to vote against Israel at the UN last week on a motion it had previously declined to back. But angry exchanges as Canada threatened and then applied sanctions on members of the Israeli government have brought relations to the lowest point in years, if not since relations began.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will welcome leaders of the world's most powerful democratic countries Sunday for the start of a three-day meeting in the Rocky Mountains — a high-stakes summit that longtime G7 observers say could be one of the most consequential in years.
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Established in the 1970s to show solidarity in shepherding the global economy, the G7 finds itself at a crossroads on its 50th anniversary. The gathering of the world's richest democracies has faced squabbles and questions about its relevance in the past.
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The Strong Borders Act introduced by the Carney government partly to mollify U.S. concerns about the border also contains a fresh attempt to expand police powers to access data about internet subscribers that has previously been rejected by courts as overly intrusive.
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Former MP Han Dong has settled his defamation lawsuit against Global News, according to a statement posted to the news organization's website, closing a two-year legal battle that came after the outlet published an article alleging he advised a Chinese diplomat to hold off on freeing two Canadians who were detained in China at the time.
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