Diana Calderón, who moved to Canada from Peru in 2022, was shocked last month to discover Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada had rejected her work permit, forcing her out of a job and preventing her daughter from returning to school.

Immigration professionals and people applying to enter Canada say they’re increasingly getting refusal letters they think don’t make sense — leading them to wonder whether their cases are being fully and properly reviewed by a human being.

Ottawa will favour the pitch that creates the most Canadian jobs when it decides whether to award a contract for a dozen new submarines to a German or a South Korean consortium, the government’s point person for military procurement says.

Pierre Poilievre was back in his happy place. Mark Carney was back in the prime minister’s seat. Between them lay 396 centimetres of green carpet and the future of the country.

Prime Minister Mark Carney squared off with his Conservative counterpart for the first time in Parliament Monday as MPs returned for a new sitting with the debate focused on the faltering economy and a stretched immigration system.

The federal government has outlined the next steps it will take in its investigation into unpaid work in the airline industry, saying it will consult with both employees and employers and hold two roundtable discussions with stakeholders.

The spring federal election saw its share of misinformation and disinformation as people tried to interfere in Canada’s democratic process, but Elections Canada says none of those efforts had any impact on the outcome of the 45th general election. 

MPs will be back on Parliament Hill on Monday for the first time since June as the House of Commons opens its fall sitting. Here’s an outlook to how things could shake out.

The seven surviving New Democrats met on Vancouver Island last week to try to rebuild a party broken and bruised. But with no permanent leader, internal issues, campaign debt and a skeleton staff, the challenges are massive.