politics

Terra Nova-The Peninsulas MP Jonathan Rowe entered a float in the Trinity Bight Christmas parade featuring the Grinch behind bars and under a banner reading “jail not bail.” One resident is raising questions about the place of politics in parades, while Rowe is remaining tongue-in-cheek. Source link

The Bank of Canada is holding its key interest rate at 2.25 per cent, a move that was widely expected by economists after an encouraging round of economic data. Source link

A series of internal documents shows the Defence Department is struggling to figure out how to equip a citizens’ army of up to 300,000 supplemental reservists, while also trying to rebuild its regular and primary reserve forces. A DND presentation obtained by CBC News shows strained supply chains, an absence of warehouses and the possibility […]

Liberal MPs on the House justice committee backed a Bloc Québécois proposal to remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws — after the suggestion initially appeared to halt the government’s anti-hate legislation. Source link

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s last-minute trip to a Gaza peace summit in Egypt in October cost Canadian taxpayers over $736,466 — more than three times higher than it would have been if the Royal Canadian Air Force had been able to supply a plane. Source link

Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s longtime ambassador to the United States, is leaving her post in the new year.  Source link

The country’s military police watchdog found investigators failed to conduct a rigorous investigation into a sexual assault allegation against former senior military leader Dany Fortin, but that outside pressure didn’t influence the case. Source link

The Liberal government has tabled sweeping new legislation that it says will protect victims and survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and protect children from predators. Source link

The Liberal government will vote against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s motion Tuesday calling for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific — but ministers insisted it doesn’t mean Ottawa has given up on the memorandum of understanding signed with Alberta last month. Source link

If Mark Carney’s first nine months as prime minister have revealed a difference of opinion over how the federal government should go about fighting climate change, he now has to prove that his approach can put Canada on a credible path to net-zero emissions by 2050. Source link