Politics

Pierre Poilievre wants Canadians to believe their national debt is a ticking time bomb, and Justin Trudeau lit the fuse. Here's the catch: his attempts to defuse it would almost certainly blow a hole in Canada's social safety net.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office is clarifying that he and his family are vacationing in Jamaica "at no cost at a location owned by family friends," after initially saying the family was paying for their stay.

The committee process for a testy piece of legislation that would recognize Métis governments in three provinces has been extended until at least February.

The most striking similarity between Poilievre and Trump is their ability to bend long standing members of their party to their will — and away from their own apparent ideas and ideals.

A recent court injunction against a law to restrict public drug use in British Columbia denies police a much-anticipated enforcement tool, says a top law enforcement official.

The Saskatchewan government says its natural gas utility is to stop collecting the carbon levy as of Monday from residential customers.

For more than a year, Canada has been mulling the creation of a foreign agent registry to fight interference in the country's democratic processes.

The Ohio charging station signals the start of a wave of new projects paid for by the 2021 law.

"That's off the table," NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, even though the two parties have been working closely together. 

The union said it has ended all of its pressure tactics, such as the general strike that has shut 800 schools, including in Montreal, since the end of November.

Canada's first-ever climate adaptation strategy was little more than six weeks old when fast-moving wildfires swept through communities in British Columbia's southern Interior, forcing thousands to flee and destroying hundreds of homes.

Justice Minister Arif Virani says the government is weighing its options as the March deadline looms. The first step, he says, will be to see what members of Parliament and senators recommend after committee hearings that probed the issue this past fall.

The Quebec government has reached tentative agreements on working conditions with all unions in a labour alliance representing 420,000 public sector workers, but negotiations continue on salaries and benefits.

Quebec's new rule banning cellphones in classrooms will be in effect when students return from the holiday break, making the province the second to implement such a measure, after Ontario.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe once said a fundamental pillar of Canadian democracy is the rule of law. His province is now prepared to break it.