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Canada Votes 2025
Carney expected to be top target in French-language leaders' debate
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to be the main target of tonight's French-language debate.
Canadian mayors push federal leaders for action on climate, not pipelines
Municipal politicians across Canada have written a letter to the five main federal party leaders calling for climate-related actions they say would improve the country's resilience to environmental calamities.
Have renters been forgotten this election campaign?
Rents and other housing costs are rising and so is the proportion of renters in Canada. Tenants say they are left in precarious positions and feel unheard and under-represented in the federal election campaign so far.
What we learned from Radio-Canada's 'Cinq chefs' party leader interviews
French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of how the five main federal party leaders defend their platforms beyond U.S. tariff threats in the span of two hours Thursday night on Radio-Canada's Cinq chefs, une élection program.
Housing proposals during federal campaign hearken back to a different kind of war
A housing crisis mixed with a need to house the people working in wartime industries in the early 1940s prompted the creation of Wartime Housing Limited, essentially a federal developer. Some policy proposals during this campaign are taking cues from that wartime effort.
Carney disrupts his campaign for 2nd time to return to Ottawa ahead of Trump's tariffs
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is once again pausing his campaign in the federal election to head back to Ottawa ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's expected Wednesday announcement of widespread tariffs.
Investments, blind trusts, TFSAs: what do they mean for this election?
While federal leaders go after each other about grill each other about tax havens, investments and conflicts of interest, it can be hard to keep up with the different kinds of money being argued over.
Carney apologizes to Montreal massacre survivor running for Liberals after getting name and school wrong
Liberal Leader Mark Carney named the wrong university as the site of the 1989 Montreal massacre on Tuesday — and flubbed the last name of the survivor who is running with his party.
Ottawa launches anti-tariff ad campaign across red states, plus a patriotic TV spot at home
The federal government launched ad campaigns at home and in the U.S. to boost Canadian patriotism and convince Americans that tariffs will hurt their wallets. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly appeared on CNN Friday to send that message.
Astronauts splashdown on Earth after spending an unexpected 9 months in space
After a week-long trip to the International Space Station ballooned into a nine-month stay, NASA astronauts Barry (Butch) Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally home.