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OTTAWA — The Conservatives will not have a candidate to challenge former Liberal minister Jean-Yves Duclos in Quebec Centre and they want Elections Canada to review the decision to exclude the party’s candidate. However, Elections Canada says such a review does not exist under the law.
The Conservatives had nominated Chanie Thériault as their candidate, who is a young entrepreneur from the Magdalen Islands, hundreds of kilometres from downtown Quebec City.
Thériault is the co-owner of a family business and is known locally for having spoken publicly about a tourism pass that would be...
April 11, 2025 - 16:28 | Antoine Trépanier | National Post
OTTAWA — Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says when it comes to calls from within the province to separate from Canada, political leaders shouldn’t let the “small minority dominate the agenda.”
“I don’t think any political leader should ever let the tail wag the dog, let the small minority dominate the agenda for the 10 or 15 per cent of Albertans who are hardcore separatists,” he told reporters Friday on the sidelines of the Canada Strong and Free Network conference, an annual gathering of Canada’s conservative movement.
However, he warned about the dangers of exacerbating...
April 11, 2025 - 15:43 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
OTTAWA — Mark Carney says his cabinet has left “instructions” for officials to help prepare the next government for upcoming negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
Friday, the Liberal leader put his election campaign on hold for the third time in three weeks to convene a federal Canada-U.S. relations cabinet meeting in Ottawa.
After the meeting, the prime minister told reporters that the meeting was to discuss the whirlwind of tariff announcements by the United States over the last week.
He said the federal government has also begun preparing negotiations...
April 11, 2025 - 15:35 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
March 23, 2025 - 22:20 | | CBC News - Canada
March 17, 2025 - 09:12 | | CBC News - Canada
The
Liberal Party of Canada
announced that Mark Carney won the leadership race on the first ballot, with more than 131,000 votes cast, at around 6:30 p.m. E.T. In second place was former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who received a little over 11,000 votes. Karina Gould received just under 4,800 votes and Frank Baylis received 4,038 votes.
On Saturday, National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, and columnists Terry Newman and Jamie...
March 9, 2025 - 14:49 | National Post | National Post
