The House of Commons may rise two days earlier than scheduled for a summer recess that is expected to include a federal cabinet shuffle
Yes, they were only by-elections, and no, none of the four seats changed hands: the Liberals held the affluent urban ridings of Winnipeg South Centre and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount in Montreal, while the Conservatives held the small-town ridings of Portage-Lisgar in Manitoba and Oxford in southern Ontario, much as would be expected. But
, and there are larger portents in these results, most of which should make Conservatives, in particular, distinctly queasy.”on Alberta and Ottawa looking to `reset’ their relationship after a heated provincial election campaign:The first federal-provincial meeting on energy and climate following Danielle Smith’s election as Alberta Premier has gone off in cordial fashion, with thorny policy differences still in the picture but both levels of government professing a constructive gathering.
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