Speaker Greg Fergus will stay on after ouster vote fails
House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus will stay on in the job after a Conservative push to oust him failed Tuesday evening.
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Canadian MPs vote to ban replacement workers with ‘anti-scab’ bill
Canada’s legislation banning some replacement workers, known as the “anti-scab” bill, has cleared its final vote in the House of Commons.
Canada now ‘the outlier’ in NATO on defence spending: U.S. ambassador
The United States’ ambassador to Canada, David Cohen, says Canada is becoming “the outlier” in NATO following a bipartisan letter from 23 American senators calling on Ottawa to meet the two per cent of GDP defence spending target.
Is bail reform keeping violent offenders off streets? Hard to tell, police say
Police in Canada say they are still waiting on more data to become available to determine whether Canada’s bail reforms over recent years are keeping violent offenders off the street.
Ottawa considers allowing banned guns to be mailed to disposal facilities
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is putting new regulations before Parliament to allow professional couriers like Canada Post and private companies like FedEx and UPS to transport restricted firearms for disposal as part of the long-planned assault-style weapon buyback.
Reducing homelessness will cost Ottawa billions more to hit targets: PBO
In order to reduce chronic homelessness in Canada by 50 per cent in the 2027/28 fiscal year, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) estimates it would cost the federal government an additional $3.5 billion annually.
As EV battery push continues, Trudeau says new plant will ‘meet this moment’
The federal and Ontario governments announced Tuesday that Canada’s first lithium ion separator plant will be built in Port Colborne, Ont. The facility is part of broader electric vehicle supply chain projects being built in the region.
Blair ‘confident’ Canada will meet NATO targets with push for more spending
Defence Minister Bill Blair says that he is pushing for more military spending to meet Canada’s NATO commitments, but he still needs to do more work on the “business case” to secure the extra funding.