Unpublished Newswire
OTTAWA — The federal NDP will not be able to rely on hefty campaign reimbursements from Elections Canada to fill its party coffers after its worst-ever election result.
Only 46 NDP candidates out of 342 received 10 per cent or more of the votes that would make them eligible for a partial reimbursement of paid election expenses such as travel, salaries, accessibility expenses and other costs associated with the campaign.
This suggests that the party will receive possibly millions less in electoral expense refunds than in the previous two elections, where over 230 candidates met the...
May 8, 2025 - 14:34 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
The debate around cohabitation continues following the tabling of Bill 103, which aims to limit the distance between supervised drug consumption sites from schools and daycares.
May 8, 2025 - 14:32 | Phil Carpenter | Global News - Canada
Experts say U.S. President Donald Trump's preliminary trade agreement with the United Kingdom could offer hints about how his administration might negotiate with Canada.
May 8, 2025 - 14:29 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
All confirmed cases were linked to travel outside the province, but health officials are bracing for community spread as numbers rise.
May 8, 2025 - 14:25 | | CBC News - Canada
More people were packing up to flee their homes Thursday morning as wildfires raged in Newfoundland along the western shore of Conception Bay, about 45 kilometres northwest of St. John’s.The flames had destroyed about a dozen homes since Wednesday afternoon, said Gerry Rogers, a resident of the amalgamated town of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, N.L.
May 8, 2025 - 14:16 | Sarah Smellie | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA
— U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says the president has put the issue of Canada becoming a state “behind us.”
Hoekstra says the meeting U.S. President Donald Trump held with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House earlier this week allowed both sides to move past some of the issues that have coloured the U.S.-Canada relationship over the past 90 days.
One of those has been Trump’s repeated comments that he would like Canada to become part of the U.S., referring to the country as the “51st state...
May 8, 2025 - 14:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
