Unpublished Newswire

The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient, more visible approach to development and humanitarian assistance to make the case for maintaining aid spending as the United States pulls back.“Those that are staying the course need to be more nimble and need to be more versatile,” said Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, in his first major interview since taking on the role.

P olls come and go, and seasoned political observers know better than to overreact to a single bad result. But eventually, the numbers stack up, warning signs mount, and the message becomes impossible to ignore. After a turbulent spring session at the National Assembly in Quebec City, a series of polls have made clear that Premier François Legault’s personal popularity has taken a nosedive. The latest data, from Pallas Data and published by L’actualité last week, not only shows the Coalition Avenir Québec at its lowest support level in over a decade—it also suggests Legault himself...