Ottawa permanently renews creative export initiative, pledges $95-million over five years

OTTAWA — If Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ultimately finds himself in the job of prime minister he will have completed an extraordinary journey since winning his party’s leadership in 2022: from scrappy upstart, to massive frontrunner, to election loser, to finally, comeback kid. It’s not a unique journey, but it’s fraught with difficulty and has produced more losers than winners in politics. Can he do it? Pollsters have both good and bad news for the Conservatives leader. The bad news, and perhaps the most important, is that Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals...