Several candidates contesting next month’s byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot have reported receiving negative and sometimes “potentially threatening commentary” on social media platforms in recent days, according to RCMP. “While Canadians are entitled to express their opinions, even those critical of political figures, threats or comments that cross the line into criminal conduct will be taken seriously,” RCMP wrote in a statement. Independent candidate Sarah Spanier is one of more than 150 candidates contesting the riding alongside Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, who is running in the riding to regain a seat in the House of Commons.  But Spanier said she’s put a pause on knocking on doors for the time…

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberal government to introduce changes to Canada’s election rules that would curb long ballot protests. Poilievre wrote a letter to government House leader Steven MacKinnon on Tuesday saying legislation should be brought before the House of Commons when MPs return to Ottawa in September. “This is not democracy in action. It is a deliberate attempt to manipulate the rules, confuse voters and undermine confidence in our elections,” Poilievre wrote of the protests in his letter. A group of electoral reform advocates known as the Longest Ballot Committee is currently signing up more than…

Politics·New The national statistics agency says the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada decreased four per cent last year, after three annual increases in a row. Agency says non-violent crime had a significant effect on the decline The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 22, 2025 11:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago Statistics Canada says the crime severity index decreased four per cent last year after three annual increases in a row, largely due to a decrease in non-violent crime. (CBC) The national statistics agency says the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada decreased…

Several Conservative MPs and leader Pierre Poilievre are criticizing the Crown’s approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party’s deputy leader calling it an act of “political vengeance.” Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa for more than three weeks in early 2022. Barber was also convicted of counselling others to disobey a court order. They were found not guilty of several charges, including counselling others to commit mischief. A sentencing hearing for Barber and Lich is scheduled…

Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., Tuesday to deliver a detailed briefing about his government’s ongoing trade negotiations with the Trump administration.  U.S. President Donald Trump and Carney agreed in June at the G7 summit to try and reach a trade deal by July 21, but Trump recently moved that deadline to Aug. 1.  Carney’s briefing on how those negotiations are going lands in the middle of the three-day first ministers’ meeting where the premiers are discussing their own response to the trade war. Carney said he was coming to the meeting shortly…

Canadian exporters across a wide range of industries have a way to escape U.S. President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs.  That escape hatch is compliance with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the three-way free trade deal signed by Trump back in 2018.  U.S. and Canadian officials have said the across-the-board tariffs Trump is threatening to impose on Aug. 1 won’t apply to goods that comply with the terms of CUSMA.  Trade policy experts say the vast majority of Canadian exports can qualify for this exemption, and that’s leading to a stampede of companies rushing to do the paperwork to get their products…

The Canadian military and possibly the coast guard appear to have been keeping tabs on a Chinese research vessel as it returns to Arctic waters off Alaska for the second year in a row. Data compiled by an independent researcher and ship tracker, Steffan Watkins, shows a Canadian air force CP-140 surveillance plane was flying in the vicinity of the Xue Long (Snow Dragon) 2 as it exited the Bering Strait on Sunday. The aircraft, according to Watkins’s research, relocated to Anchorage, Alaska, from its base in Comox, B.C., on July 9. It has conducted four patrols since then, including…

When Mark Carney sits down with the premiers in Huntsville, Ont., on Tuesday, it will be the third time in four months that he and the premiers have met face-to-face. Going back to the waning days of Justin Trudeau’s premiership, Canada’s first ministers will have now sat down together a total of four times already this year. That is, by recent standards, an unusual amount of time for the prime minister and the premiers to spend in each other’s midst. In the last 35 years, such gatherings have been generally rare and, in fact, consciously avoided. But it’s possible that…

B.C. Premier David Eby said he believes U.S. leadership has “very little awareness” of how offensive their remarks are, like the U.S. ambassador to Canada saying President Donald Trump thinks Canadians are “nasty” to deal with because of U.S. boycotts.   “Do they think Canadians are not going to respond when the president says, ‘I want to turn you into the 51st state and begger you economically unless you bow to the U.S.’?” Eby said in an interview on CBC’s Power and Politics Monday evening in Huntsville, Ont., where premiers are meeting this week. “Obviously, Canadians are outraged.” Ambassador Pete Hoekstra made the…

Canada’s premiers arrived in Ontario cottage country on Monday eager to discuss the country’s ongoing trade crisis with the United States and settle into a plan for how they can work together with Indigenous leaders to strengthen the country’s economy. On his way into the summit, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said it’s becoming obvious Prime Minister Mark Carney’s warning that it’s unlikely Canada can strike an entirely tariff-free deal with the U.S. is simply “the reality of the situation.” “Exceptions, carve outs, exclusions, exemptions — whatever you might call them, that is the reality: that we won’t get to zero on each and…