MPs return to the House of Commons for what's set to be dynamic fall sitting
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The fall sitting of Parliament begins Monday, as members of Parliament resume their work in the House of Commons for the first time since June.
The fall sitting of Parliament begins Monday, as MPs resume their work in the House of Commons for the first time since June.
Parliament’s return comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing persistent election pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party maintained a definitive lead over the Liberals in public opinion polls all summer.
Trudeau is also contending with the loss of assumed support from the NDP after Jagmeet Singh “ripped up” the two parties’ supply-and-confidence agreement, declaring a desire to spend the rest of this Parliament going vote-by-vote.
But as Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet positions his caucus to capture the balance of power, the prime minister’s minority Liberal government has political options to stay afloat.
Coming out of last week’s Liberal caucus retreat, Trudeau insisted that despite chatter about the viability of his continued leadership, Liberals are fixated on “putting the strongest balance sheet in the G7 in service of Canadians.”
Government House Leader Karina Gould is holding a news conference at 9:30 a.m. ET to talk about the Liberals’ priorities for the fall sitting.
Poilievre convened his caucus for a quick strategy session in Ottawa on Sunday, where he said Conservatives will stay focused on the carbon tax and the economy.
A man has been charged in connection with the killing of a mother and the presumed death of a nine-month-old at a St. Albert apartment complex.
A gym in Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood said it has now permanently banned a member who they admitted wore a t-shirt bearing Nazi propaganda after initially announcing publicly that it had only asked the man to not wear such symbols at the facility.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will cut 587 positions as part of the federal government’s move to reduce the size of the public service by 28,000 positions over the next four years.
A Vancouver-based mining firm says 10 people have been abducted from one of its project sites in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, a region in the throes of violence among rival drug cartels.
Saskatchewan’s first jackpot winner of the year was revealed in Regina on Thursday.
The Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) is going overseas to research transit safety.
B.C. Premier David Eby says a wave of extortion crime in the province is a “terror attack in slow motion.”
A music teacher has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault investigation involving his school-aged student.
West Edmonton Mall was locked down on Thursday afternoon as a result of a weapons complaint.
An Alberta First Nation is advising its band members to take precautions when crossing into the United States, even though centuries-old treaty rights should protect them.
Two murderers including gangland hitman Dean Wiwchar have been charged with attempting to escape from a British Columbia pretrial centre last month.
An investigation by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit details what happened after a mentally unstable man bought a rifle in Sudbury, then exchanged fire with police in Latchford before he was shot and taken into custody.
New charges have been laid in the investigation on Chesham Avenue after chemicals capable of making explosives were discovered at a home earlier in the week.