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Karina Gould, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons arrives for a caucus meeting

Government House leader Karina Gould announced Saturday morning that she’s running in the Liberal leadership contest, becoming the youngest candidate so far to throw their hat into the ring to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.


Stephen Phaneuf, who lives across the street from the border, poses for a photo near his home along the Canada-U.S. border between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Quebec, near Champlain, New York, U.S., January 17, 2025.

Canadian law enforcement may be battening down the hatches, but groups helping migrants near Roxham Road say they aren’t seeing a surge of asylum seekers. For now, at least.


Four people pose for a photo indoors.

National Indigenous leaders in Canada say the prime minister is asking them to lobby their counterparts in the United States as part of the pushback against president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.


Fans of carbon taxes might lament. But the end of the consumer carbon tax won’t necessarily bring an end to carbon pricing in Canada. Its death might clarify that the real debate is how Canada is going to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.


A limousine idles in a snowy parking lot.

An Edmonton limousine service says someone called for one of its cars to show up at the community centre where Mark Carney launched his bid for the Liberal leadership on Thursday — but the person didn’t leave a name and never showed.


 Bank of Canada signage is shown on a window of a building, with bright yellow fall foliage of trees in the background.

A Bank of Canada internal review found that the extraordinary measures it took during the pandemic could have been communicated more clearly, including an explanation of how its actions would be eased after a crisis has passed.


Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says he’ll work to improve the ‘toxic’ Canada-U.S. relationship when he travels to Washington to watch his friend J.D. Vance take the oath of office as U.S. vice-president on Monday.


Healthcare workers tend to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Scarborough Health Network’s Centenary Hospital, in north-east Toronto, on Apr. 8, 2021. Advocacy groups say in Ontario and Quebec there are more than 3,500 internationally trained physicians with the vast majority of them not working in their field.

Millions of Canadians do not have access to a family doctor. Thousands of internationally trained physicians living in Canada could help bring that number down but are currently unable to work as doctors because of several hurdles.


a row of politicians at a table

Their firm disagreements on how to deal with Trump’s trade ideas are rooted in their backgrounds, and in their backyards.


Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre delivers remarks at a new housing development site in Delta, B.C, on Thursday, January 16, 2025.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t say whether he backs the premiers and prime minister’s threat to impose export tariffs or restrict the supply of oil and gas bound for the United States as a possible response to president-elect Donald Trump’s promised tariff regime.