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WEBAs international student cap eases rental market, feds should look at further restricting immigration: experts. A report from Rentals.ca found rental prices increased last month by the slowest annual rate in nearly three years, propelled by year-over-year decreases in certain cities with large post-secondary institutions, like London, Ont ...
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WEBWith the NDP no longer bound to prop up the Liberals on confidence votes and Trudeau’s grip over the Liberal Party appearing to slip, the coming fall session of Parliament is already set to become the most unpredictable since the 2021 election. Unexpected results in either byelection will only add fuel to the fire.
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WEBFeds launch working group to address woeful productivity growth. Canada’s relatively low productivity growth is not a new phenomenon, but it has occupied an increasing amount of political airspace since Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of Canada’s central bank, said it was time to ‘break the glass’ on the issue earlier this year ...
Team Trudeau set to lose veteran Quebec front bencher Pablo …
WEB5 hours ago · Just days after his party was forced to cede a traditionally Liberal Montreal-area riding to the Bloc Québécois, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is about to lose his Quebec lieutenant as well. As predicted by a steady stream of media reports over the last few weeks, veteran Team Trudeau front bencher Pablo Rodriguez is set to formally announce his plan to run for the leadership of the Quebec ...
Federal foreign interference inquiry to hear from political party ...
WEB1 hour ago · THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld. A federal inquiry into foreign interference is scheduled to hear today from Bloc Québécois, Green and New Democratic Party officials. The inquiry’s latest hearings are focused on the capacity of federal agencies to detect, deter and counter foreign meddling.
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WEBTeamsters launch court appeal of feds’ move to end rail shutdown. In filings to the Federal Court of Appeal, the Teamsters union challenged directives for binding arbitration issued to a labour board by federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon last week following the lockout of 9,300 workers by Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian ...
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WEBThe Liberals and Conservatives are neck and neck as Parliament gets set to resume next month following September’s general election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have the support of 34 per cent of decided and leaning voters, while Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives have 33 per cent support, according to …
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WEBAug 2, 2024 · Ontario to keep current electoral map, fuelling early election rumours. In doing so, Ford once more fuelled the rumours of an early election. Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to reporters upon arriving for a meeting between Canada’s premiers and Indigenous leaders at the Council of the Federation meetings in Halifax on Monday, July 15, 2024.
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WEB19 hours ago · Bloc to the rescue. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet is crushing Pierre Poilievre’s non-confidence vote dreams. Published Sep 18, 2024 at 4:31pm. iPolitics. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet listens to a reporter’s question in Montreal on Sept 22, 2021. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)
Voting goes on and on and on… - ipolitics.ca
WEBDec 8, 2023 · Good evening to you. It may be Friday in every other part of Canada, but it’s still Thursday in the House of Commons, which never adjourned for the night because of an ongoing marathon sitting provoked by Conservative protests of the federal government’s carbon tax.. The Official Opposition is trying to block the Liberals’ agenda by forcing 120 individual votes on the federal government ...