Tag Archives: Federal Politics

Tax holiday boosting spending at retailers, restaurants: industry groups
Almost a week into the GST holiday, retailers and restaurant owners appear on track for a sales boost despite some of the struggles they faced implementing the temporary break.BMV Books owner Patrick ...
Dec 20, 2024

Trudeau to shuffle cabinet Friday as pressure for him to resign remains
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Friday morning.A government source confirms a swearing-in ceremony will take place at Rideau Hall.This comes at the end of a tumultuous week t...
Dec 19, 2024
New federal commission established to review potential wrongful convictions
Having spent 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, David Milgard dedicated the rest of his life to advocating for others who had been wrongfully convicted.And that passion has led to the R...
Dec 18, 2024

'The chaos was real': MP Gary Vidal on Freeland's resignation
A quiet has settled over Parliament Hill after yesterday's historic and weird day in Canadian politics brought the government to a standstill. "Yesterday was very chaotic, it was a very interesting da...
Dec 17, 2024

Sask. ammunition retailer enhances tracking of sales
Editors note: This story was edited on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 8:45 a.m. battlefordsNOW mistakingly referred to Battlefords Bait and Tackle as a firearms dealer. That information is incorrect. The store s...
Dec 16, 2024

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quits cabinet the day of fall economic statement
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned from cabinet, the day she is set to present the fall economic statement. In a resignation letter, she says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offere...
Dec 16, 2024

Federal government's two-month GST holiday begins
As a two-month break from the federal GST took effect Saturday, shoppers and businesses expressed lukewarm support for the measure.In Montreal, Patrick Neault, general manager of Raffin Bookstore, sai...
Dec 14, 2024

Trump's strategy is to create economic uncertainty in other countries: Freeland
With Donald Trump as president, the U.S. has an open strategy of creating economic uncertainty in other countries to discourage investment "anywhere other than the United States," Finance Minister Chr...
Dec 14, 2024
Federal minister asks labour board to intervene in Canada Post strike
OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is "calling a timeout" in the Canada Post strike, and asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to send about 55,000 employees back to work...
Dec 13, 2024

Prime minister appoints Bernadette McIntyre as new Saskatchewan lieutenant-governor
Bernadette McIntyre has been appointed Saskatchewan's 24th lieutenant-governor.McIntyre was Wascana Centre Authority CEO, has held senior positions with SGI and served on dozens of boards of directors...
Dec 07, 2024