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OTTAWA — If there’s one person who won’t be receiving any Conservative MP Christmas cards, it’s Markham–Unionville MP Michael Ma.   In fact, if anything, Conservatives want the floor-crossing new Liberal MP to return a Christmas gift he already received.   “I was Michael Ma’s Secret Santa. I gave him an Amazon Fire Stick just hours before he crossed the floor. Now I want my gift back, just like the people of Markham—Unionville want their votes back!,” Conservative MP Kurt Holman posted on social media Friday morning.   Though metaphors involving Santa and lumps of coal may be...

A member of the Indigenous advisory council of the Major Projects Office said he and his colleagues were not told in advance of the agreement the federal government signed with Alberta opening a path to a pipeline to B.C.’s coast.Trevor Mercredi, grand chief of Treaty 8 First Nations in Alberta, told a news conference on Thursday that the memorandum of understanding signed last month was “news” to him and his colleagues, and that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government didn’t tap the council for advice on how to move forward.