Joan Bryden
Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Liberals cautious about potential electoral impact of Bernier bombshell
Conservatives, from leader Andrew Scheer on down, are predicting that Maxime Bernier's decision to quit their party and start his own will end up helping Justin Trudeau's Liberals win re-election next year.
Trudeau cabinet advised to do more to prevent digital media abuse in elections
Foreign and domestic actors will almost certainly abuse digital media to try to manipulate voters and undermine the integrity of Canada's next federal election, experts are warning the Trudeau government.
Protest accuses Trudeau of fiddling on pipeline while climate change burns B.C.
Justin Trudeau's twin objectives to reduce Canada's carbon emissions and build a pipeline to carry oilsands bitumen to the coast collided Wednesday in a province ravaged by wildfires that the prime minister's own government attributes to climate change.
PM to visit northern B.C. as cabinet holds retreat amid wildfire crisis
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his newly shuffled cabinet gathered on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, for a retreat on Vancouver Island, under smoke-filled skies amid a province-wide wildfire emergency.
Liberals showcase benefits of billions spent on infrastructure projects
Little more than a year before the next federal election, Justin Trudeau's Liberals are hoping to remind Canadians about the benefits derived from one of their signature promises from the last election: investing billions in infrastructure.
Singh disappointed by NDP collapse in Quebec byelection, vows more effort
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's reviewing his tour schedule and his party's policies in the wake of a federal byelection on Monday, June 18, 2018, in Quebec, in which the New Democrats' vote collapsed.
Pot to be legal by mid-September after senators pass pot legalization bill
Canadians will be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana by mid-September at the latest after the Senate voted on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, to lift almost a century-old prohibition on cannabis.
Marijuana bill goes back to Senate after House rejects 13 amendments
A federal bill to legalize recreational cannabis was bounced back to the Senate on Monday, June 18, 2018, where the government's representative argued it's time to get on with lifting Canada's almost century-old prohibition on marijuana.
Tories win Quebec byelection in first test of Scheer's appeal to nationalists
The Conservatives have stolen a Quebec riding away from Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberals, in the first test of Andrew Scheer's effort to recreate the nationalist-conservative coalition that helped federal Tories dominate the province in the 1980s.
Senate defeats Conservative bid to impose blanket ban on homegrown marijuana
The Senate has rejected an attempt to prohibit Canadians from growing a small number of marijuana plants at home once recreational cannabis is legalized.