With one post, Trump has scrambled Canada’s political agenda

If nothing else, it has given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a national mission that resonates with most Canadians.
Waiting to exhale

While the government certainly has the right to try to extend its useful life until October 2025, Canadians might like to hit the reset button.
PPS investigates ‘suspicious package,’ finds it ‘unsuspicious’

The Wellington Building was evacuated during the lunch hour on Dec. 10, with police blocking off nearby streets.
Fresh tech incoming for MP riding offices

Members of Parliament from across the country will be getting new phones, printers, computers, and network connection devices for their riding offices post-election.
MacKinnon scoops up Tassi staffer to fill parliamentary affairs team

With Chelsea Kusnick’s exit, FedDev Ontario Minister Filomena Tassi has promoted a new director of communications.
Rural ridings will decide which party forms government after the next election, says Liberal MP Robert Morrissey

In the newly reconfigured 343 House, there will be 83 rural, 50 rural/urban, 143 urban, and 67 urban/rural ridings.
The politics of climate change are changing

Economists tell us such carbon taxes are the most efficient way to fight climate change. Yet, regular people will often see them as disproportionately harming the middle class.
Are we happy? Are we supposed to be?

Economic gears have been grinding in unsettling ways since the pandemic, there are no quick fixes, and the first responsibility of any government should be to protect the vulnerable. Everyone else will survive—and may even find something to celebrate.
Consistent polling figures show Liberals face situation where the ‘public just stops listening’

In the aftermath of the U.S. election last month, the prime minister and his ministers have sought to contrast Trudeau’s previous experience dealing with Trump’s first four years in office with the Conservatives.
Tourism Minister Martinez Ferrada to deliver speech in Montreal on Monday, Dec. 9

MONDAY, DEC. 9 House Sitting—The House is sitting every weekday until Dec. 17 and is scheduled to adjourn on that day for the Christmas holidays and break. It’s scheduled to return on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, and will sit for 25 weeks over the year. It will sit Jan. 27-Feb. 14; Feb. 24-28; March 17-21; […]