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In an effort to halve the approval time for Canada’s new high-speed rail network, the Liberal government is streamlining how it expropriates land in a way that some say could compromise property rights and lead to costly mistakes. Source link

With Prime Minister Mark Carney expected to lay out a path forward for an oil pipeline to northwest B.C. on Thursday, senior people around him have had to assuage skittish MPs and at least one cabinet minister about the virtues of the forthcoming “grand bargain” with Alberta. Source link

Canadian researchers who track online misinformation and foreign interference are welcoming a new feature that reveals the location of an X account but warn that it still has glitches and its results should be taken with a grain of salt. Source link

Conservative members on the House committee on fisheries and oceans are raising concerns about the impact of and science behind marine protected areas that the federal government is establishing to meet its 2030 conservation goals. Source link

With Prime Minister Mark Carney poised to sign a “grand bargain” with Alberta later this week, some B.C. Liberal MPs are raising concerns about Ottawa possibly giving the greenlight to a new oil pipeline to the Pacific, sources say. Source link

Ottawa and the provinces raked in more than $5.4 billion in cannabis tax revenue since the drug was legalized for recreational use in October 2018. Source link

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he should not have been dismissive of reporters’ questions about speaking to U.S. President Donald Trump, conceding he used “a poor choice of words.” Source link

Members of Parliament from multiple parties slammed Stellantis on Tuesday for failing to show up to a committee hearing about the federal government’s multimillion-dollar funding deals with the global automaker. Source link

Members of Parliament have revived calls for Canada to criminalize the concept of coercive control as a way of combating intimate partner violence, after a previous bill died when Parliament was dissolved. Source link

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada continues to take public safety, transnational repression and foreign interference seriously as it negotiates a trade agreement with India — a country Ottawa iced out over allegations it was involved in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. Source link