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Many poorer Canadians will get the government benefits they are entitled too and could be lifted out of poverty thanks to Ottawa’s plan to set up auto-filing tax returns for low-income citizens, activists say.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to...Mark Carney’s nation building plan defines his agenda. Here’s the person asked to get it done Dawn Farrell has the support of business leaders and a resumé replete with building big things, but already, just weeks into her job as CEO of Canada’s Major Projects Office, there are questions about how she will meet those sky-high expectations and get “nation-building” projects built. Farrell was announced last month as CEO of the Major Projects Office to...Here’s why the Liberals and Conservatives have a head start in the next election campaign The drubbing the country’s smaller political parties faced in the federal election not only bruised egos but damaged bank accounts, leaving the Liberals and Conservatives with a major advantage moving forward, a Star analysis of election rebate funding reveals. Federal parties can receive a partial rebate of the money they spend during campaigns from Elections Canada. The money, which is...Trouble awaits the next Liberal leader. Here’s what they’ll be up against — and when they could face an election Call it the end of the beginning. When Liberals choose their next leader on Sunday, Canadian politics will enter a new era. The long denouement of Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership — which started, officially, when he announced his resignation on Jan. 6 — will give way to the opening act of whatever comes next.She says she ‘outsmarted’ Pierre Poilievre. Now Karina Gould believes she has what it takes to be Canada’s next prime minister Talk of who would be Justin Trudeau’s successor was happening in Ottawa well before he walked out of Rideau Cottage in early January and told the nation he was bowing out. There were short lists and long lists, cabinet ministers who were quietly organizing and many who were expected to be serious leadership contenders, but Karina Gould’s was not a...The future Chrystia Freeland has long feared is here. Now she thinks she’s the best person to confront it Even as she attempts to become Liberal leader and prime minister, Chrystia Freeland is still surprised she chose to run for office at all. “Sometimes when I look back on that decision, I’m astonished that I made that decision,” she said in a recent interview with the Star.Liberal supporters, former MPs, and one leadership campaign say problems with the party’s voter verification process could prevent people from casting their ballots in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The party is using Canada Post’s Identity+ app or visits to post offices to verify that registered Liberals are Canadian citizens who can vote in the leadership race...Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are targets of abuse and conspiracy theories, report says The high-stakes race for the job of Liberal leader and prime minister has prompted a deluge of misinformation online about the contest’s two front-runners. A new report illustrating that finding comes as the race to crown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor now has a pared-back field of five candidates, many of whom spent the past week unveiling their campaigns in...The field of potential candidates to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader is growing, ahead of a key caucus meeting Wednesday where Liberals MPs are expected to debate the rules and shape of the coming contest. According to a source familiar with her thinking, Burlington MP Karina Gould, the current House leader, is actively considering a leadership race...‘There’s chaos at the centre’: Business leaders, MPs push Trudeau to decide on his future Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to finally decide whether to resign or cling on, with some Liberal MPs urging him to quickly make up his mind, and one major business group raising concerns about “chaos” at the centre of Canadian political power. The uncertainty over who will lead the country into the new year comes barely three...Inside Chrystia Freeland’s surprising resignation — and the fallout that has Justin Trudeau fighting for his political life Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life, behind closed doors. At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned...Trudeau government relocates diplomatic posting in China that was once held by Michael Kovrig Global Affairs Canada has relocated out of China the diplomatic posting for a controversial intelligence program that was once held by Michael Kovrig — one of two Canadian men held by Beijing for more than 1,000 days. The department confirmed to the Star this week that Canada moved a diplomatic position in the Global Security Reporting Program out of...Liberal MP says he was threatened with ‘consequences’ for opposing $250 cheque proposal A Liberal MP said he was threatened with unspecified “consequences” if he votes against the government’s proposed $250 cheques, an affordability measure that continues to face an uncertain path through the House of Commons. Hamilton MP Chad Collins said earlier this week that he would vote against the government’s cash rebates because they leave out seniors and people with disabilities...Canada’s premiers want Justin Trudeau to do a trade deal with the U.S. that excludes Mexico, Doug Ford says Ford, chair of the Council of Federation of premiers, said “there’s a clear consensus that everyone agrees that we need a bilateral trade deal with the U.S. and a separate bilateral trade deal with Mexico.” Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to strike a separate trade deal with the United States, excluding Mexico, says Premier Doug...This Donald Trump ally thinks Canada’s relationship with the U.S. will continue to be strong. Here’s why Chrystia Freeland has called him a “proof point” of the enduring Canada-U.S. relationship. Fortune Magazine has asked if he could be the Elon Musk of steel. But Lourenco Goncalves says Canada’s trade partnership with the U.S. can thrive during Donald Trump’s second administration because of the close ties between the two nations.Canadians expected to feel the pain as port lockouts threaten more than $1 billion worth of imports every day The Liberals are being pushed to intervene in labour unrest at the country’s ports, which have been shut down by lockouts that are causing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods to be diverted or delayed every day. Late Sunday night, 1,200 dockworkers in Montreal were locked out after rejecting their employer’s latest offer. Last week, workers at the...Lower your fees, Mark Carney, businesses ask Liberal bigwig after his payments company hoards savings from merchants Not all Canadian small businesses will be benefiting from new lower credit card fees arranged by the federal government because one major payments processor says it won’ be passing along its savings to many of its merchants. And one of the directors of the payments company, Stripe, is Mark Carney, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal...Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said his party rejects the proposed national pharmacare plan, arguing it would force Canadians to give up their own private drug plans.A new poll shows the NDP sliding dramatically over the summer, while the Conservatives continue to hold onto their significant lead. The Postmedia-Leger poll, found support for the New Democrats dropped five percentage points to 15 per cent in just over a month. The Conservatives enjoy 43 per cent support nationally, a full 18 percentage points ahead of the federal...The PM's chances of winning a fourth term range from slim to none. Here's 10 who could step up if he steps downMore baleful byelections are brewing for the Trudeau Liberals after the fall of St. Paul's The Liberals’ stunning defeat in the Toronto—St-Paul’s byelection this week could be just the beginning of a year of pain for the party: several more byelections are expected; all of them could happen before 2024 is over.Liberals blocking access to 1,000-plus documents says intel-oversight panel reviewing foreign interference The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians said it is still fighting to obtain all the documents it needs to fulfill its mandateMushroom growers, Shopify and real estate: Poilievre says lobbyists are 'useless,' but here's who he meets with anyway Poilievre denounced the lobbying culture in corporate Canada in a speech in March. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s view of lobbyists as “useless and overpaid” hasn’t stopped him from meeting with them, according to records in Canada’s lobbyist registry.'It's a content studio': Inside the rule-bending, highly-scripted strategies to make a splash in question period Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stood up during question period in November and demanded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defend the carve out for home heating oil from the carbon tax. “If he is so proud of how he is forcing Canadians to choose between heating and eating, why does he not have the guts to stand up and say so now?”Israel’s Ambassador to Canada said his country is “deeply disappointed” by Canada’s support for a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on Tuesday.Canada’s foreign interference inquiry will include opposition parties, but the judge running the inquiry won’t grant them the right to ask witnesses questions or see all the evidence. On Monday, ahead of public hearings expected in January, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue released a decision on who will have standing at the inquiry.Environmentalist lawyers back Liberal plan to fix unconstitutional 'no more pipelines' act with minor tweaksEvery Saturday, Peter Mansbridge provides thoughtful takes on this week's news stories. Subscribe for FREE! You can unsubscribe any time.
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