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No more Conservative defections to Liberals, MP Gérard Deltell says
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
QUÉBEC — Quebec Conservative MP Gérard Deltell says no other Conservative elected official will succumb to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal charm offensive. Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont sent shock waves through the political world on Tuesday when he announced he was leaving the federal Conservatives to join the Liberals and support their budget. Deltell ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Liberal MP Jaime Battiste fined $600 for breaching elections financing law
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
OTTAWA — An elections watchdog fined Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste and his financial agent $600 each for a series of elections law violations — including a donation of funds to Battiste’s own campaign that went almost $1,500 over the limit. Battiste serves as parliamentary secretary to the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. He sought ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Alberta teachers file court challenge of back-to-work legislation
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
EDMONTON — The head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says it has filed a court challenge against back-to-work legislation that ended a provincewide strike. Jason Schilling says it wants the court to put the law, which uses the notwithstanding clause, on hold pending the challenge. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unions condemn federal government’s plans to change collective bargaining rules
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
OTTAWA — Federal public service unions are condemning the government’s proposed amendments to collective bargaining rules — though they admit they know little at this point about what those changes could entail. The federal budget, tabled on Tuesday, proposes amendments to the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act to ensure the government can “attract and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Five things to know about ostrich cull case, after court delivers blow to farmers
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
The cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm is set to begin after the Supreme Court of Canada announced it would not be hearing an appeal by the farm’s owners. Here are five things to know about the situation at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C. 1. The court fight The Supreme ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Accused in spy trial says Chinese university bids tied to Hydro-Québec job insecurity
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
MONTREAL — A former researcher with Quebec’s hydro utility who is facing economic espionage charges says he was applying for work at universities in China because he was unhappy at Hydro-Québec. Yuesheng Wang maintained under cross-examination in court today that there was nothing nefarious about his interest in moving back to China. He explained that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump has options if the Supreme Court blocks him from imposing ’emergency’ tariffs
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
WASHINGTON — Countries around the world — Canada included — are waiting anxiously as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether President Donald Trump has the authority to continue using his favoured tariff tool. No matter which way the court jumps, however, the Trump administration is expected to maintain some level of tariffs on the United ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on Saskatchewan’s school pronoun case
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
REGINA — The Supreme Court of Canada granted leave Thursday to hear appeals in a challenge of Saskatchewan’s school pronoun law and the notwithstanding clause that underpins it. No date has been set for the court to hear the cross appeals from the provincial government and UR Pride, a Regina-based LGBTQ+ group. The law prevents ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘The stuff of nightmares’: Judge hands man life sentence for mass murder of family
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
OTTAWA — A man who pleaded guilty to killing a mother, her four children and a family friend in a mass stabbing in Ottawa in 2024 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Febrio De-Zoysa pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of first degree murder, two counts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP says it will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
OTTAWA — NDP interim leader Don Davies says his caucus will keep the minority Liberal government alive in the first of three confidence tests of the federal budget today. Members of Parliament are set to vote on two amendments to the budget that were proposed by the Bloc Québécois and the Conservatives. Government House leader ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: NDP says it will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
By Canadian Press on November 6th, 2025
OTTAWA — NDP interim leader Don Davies says his caucus will keep the minority Liberal government alive in the first of three confidence tests of the federal budget today. Members of Parliament are set to vote on the first of two amendments to the budget today, and if the government loses either vote — or ... Read More »
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