Source: CBC News (Politics)
Food Banks Canada is calling on federal leaders to make pledges to end food insecurity in the next five years, as local food banks and advocates say it needs to be a top election issue.
Amid unprecedented trade turmoil, Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives are keen to cut red tape in the provincial economy with Premier Doug Ford and his finance minister signalling that permits, and their bureaucratic hurdles, have fallen squarely in their sights.
Some members of Ottawa’s Indigenous community say they’re worried about the impact Canada-U.S. relations could have on friends and family who live on reserves near or severed by the American border.
A political scientist says Pierre Poilievre’s open resentment toward offshore tax havens and corporate jets likely isn’t enough to sever his Conservative Party’s relationship with business leaders.
Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre faced the critical glare of the mega-popular Radio-Canada talk show Tout le monde en parle on Sunday in an attempt to woo Francophone viewers, with the Liberal leader being pressed on his cultural awareness of the province and his Conservative rival differentiating himself against perceptions in Quebec he is a “mini-Trump.”
Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week’s Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party.
A Saskatchewan-specific poll of voters suggests Trump tariffs and leader favourability may be boosting Liberal fortunes in the province’s two largest cities.
CBC’s The House profiles the Quebec riding of Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville, where Bloc challenger Patrick O’Hara, who lost by 12 votes last election, is back to take on Liberal star candidate Nathalie Provost.
