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MPs returned to Ottawa this week for what’s expected to be a busy legislative session, as Mark Carney’s Liberals look to make headway on its lofty agenda.
But with big ideas can come issues around execution, politics, and how to pay for it all.
National Post politics writer Simon Tuck joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss Carney’s priorities for the fall, how the government hopes to implement some of its agenda,...
September 19, 2025 - 17:12 | Shawn Knox | National Post
OTTAWA — With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow.
In its first legal intervention in the challenge of Quebec’s controversial secularism law (also known as Bill 21), the federal government told the country’s top court that there should be limits on the use of the most hotly debated section of the Charter of Rights: section 33, or the notwithstanding clause.
The clause allows a government to override specific Charter rights...
September 19, 2025 - 17:12 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
Instead, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will address global leaders on the government's behalf from the green marble podium.
September 19, 2025 - 17:11 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA
— Justice Minister Sean Fraser said Friday the government’s new bill targeting the use of hate and terror symbols is not a “blanket ban” on any particular imagery.
Rather, the minister says, laying a charge under the newly proposed offence would depend on a variety of factors to be evaluated by police and prosecutors...
September 19, 2025 - 16:43 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
The report was based on a review of 911 deaths of young Nova Scotians between 2009 and 2023.
September 19, 2025 - 16:10 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Shane Pinto is focused on his job, not on his future. The Ottawa Senators third-line centre was choosing his words carefully when it came to discussing the possibility of signing a long-term contract extension on the third day of training camp. The 24-year-old Pinto, who will become a restricted free agent on July 1, 2026, […]
September 19, 2025 - 16:03 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen