Several candidates contesting next month’s byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot have reported receiving negative and sometimes “potentially threatening commentary” on social media platforms in recent days, according to RCMP.
Source: CBC News (Politics)
The national statistics agency says the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada decreased four per cent last year, after three annual increases in a row.
Several Conservative MPs and leader Pierre Poilievre are criticizing the Crown’s approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party’s deputy leader calling it an act of “political vengeance.”
Canadian exporters across a wide range of industries have a way to escape U.S. President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs. That escape hatch is compliance with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the three-way free trade deal signed by Trump back in 2018.
When Mark Carney sits down with the premiers on Tuesday, it will be the third time in four months that he and the premiers have met face-to-face. That is, by recent standards, an unusual amount of time for the prime minister and the premiers to spend in each other’s midst.
The Canadian military and possibly the coast guard appear to have been keeping tabs on a Chinese research vessel as it returns to Arctic waters off Alaska for the second year in a row.
B.C. Premier David Eby said he believes U.S. leadership has “very little awareness” of how offensive their remarks are, like the U.S. ambassador to Canada saying President Donald Trump thinks Canadians are “nasty” to deal with because of U.S. boycotts.
Oumaima Chouay, who fled her home in Montreal nearly a decade ago to join ISIS in Syria, is the first person in Canada convicted for providing family support to a terrorist entity as a spouse.
A U.S. Republican senator says she doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s past comments about making Canada the 51st state are helpful as the two countries are locked in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement.
Canada’s premiers are kicking off a three-day summit in Ontario’s cottage country at a time of heightened anxiety over tariffs and trade with Canada’s closest trading partner, the United States.
