Canada
Canada Post strike: Minister seeks order to get workers back on the job
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced Friday that he is asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to order workers back on the job.
Will ‘tax holiday’ spur more Canadians to spend? Why some stores doubt it
The federal government’s temporary 'tax holiday' could deliver narrow savings for consumers, but some small businesses are unconvinced they’ll see any benefits.
Airline execs testify on baggage fees; say reforms needed to lower travel costs
The CEOs of Air Canada and WestJet appeared before a parliamentary committee Friday to answer questions about their recent decisions to introduce carry-on bag fees for travellers.
Already-strong support in Manitoba for federal Tories inches up in latest Probe-Free Press poll
Growing support for Tory leader Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives could turn several Winnipeg seats blue in next year’s federal election, new survey results suggest.
At Poilievre’s Montreal rally, disenchanted Liberals join Conservative loyalists
Brothers Lucas and Samuel Verreault stood at their first-ever political rally. The 18- and 19-year-olds described their journey to the event as part of their political shift. “I’ve always been interested in politics and history,” Samuel explained. “Over the past few years, my views have shifted from liberal” since going to college. Eva Nassif, the former Liberal MP for the Laval riding of Vimy was also at this rally and stood up to endorse Poilievre.
Saving More Lives: Improving Guidance, Increasing Access and Achieving Better Outcomes in Breast Cancer Screening
The 23rd report of the Housing of Commons Standing Committee on Health.
Jim Munson with Jean Chrétien, on Loving Canada, Hating No-One and Turning 90
As Canada’s 20th prime minister, Jean Chrétien led the country for a decade, from 1993 to 2003; from the near-miss Quebec referendum of 1995 to Canada’s prescient decision in 2003 to stay out of the Iraq war. With Chrétien’s 90th birthday approaching on January 11th, former PMO communications director, retired senator and Policy contributor Jim Munson sat down for a chat with his former boss in his Ottawa office at Dentons.
The Provinces
‘We need to make a deal,’ Ford says after Trump responds to energy threat
Doug Ford says Canada and the United States need to "make a deal" as President-Elect Donald Trump's threats of sweeping tariffs continues to loom over the two countries.
B.C. NDP government, Greens forge confidence agreement with 'shared priorities'
The agreement announced Friday outlines the basis on which the Greens' two-member caucus will provide confidence to Eby's party, which won election with 47 seats in B.C.'s 93-seat legislature in October's provincial election.
Elsewhere
South Korea's President Yoon suspended after MPs vote to impeach him
Thousands of protesters celebrated after the vote, as Yoon is suspended while the prime minister serves as acting president.
Macron names Francois Bayrou as new French PM. Who is he?
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou gave a sober assessment of whether he could tame a hung parliament that ousted his predecessor, Michel Barnier, just last week.
‘We Didn’t Believe Our Own Polls’: How Republican Registration Surges Shaped the 2024 Election Landscape
Discover the complexities of 2024 election polling. The surge of new Republican voters and support from long-time non-voters shaped the outcomes. This is similar to a trend we saw in the 2022 Conservative leadership race: Supporters for Poilievre were literally coming out of nowhwere. Now we'll see if this trend holds for the next Canadian federal election.
[Press release] NATO Secretary General calls on Allies to increase defence spending: to prevent war, NATO must spend more, 12-Dec.-2024
In his first major speech as NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte highlighted the critical need to ramp up defence spending and defence production in an increasingly turbulent security environment. Speaking at an event hosted by Carnegie Europe in Brussels on Thursday (12 December 2024), Mr Rutte called on Allies to “shift to a wartime mindset and turbo charge our defence production and defence spending.”
Science and tech
How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy
Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back.
Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea
As part of our ongoing research, we studied 170 local governments around the world that use various AI systems. We found AI is already touching nearly every aspect of public service delivery, and most of the governments didn’t even have a published policy about it.