Canada's next election will take place on April 28: sources
CBC
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to ask the Governor General on Sunday to dissolve Parliament, marking the beginning of a federal election. Sources have confirmed to CBC News that election day will be on April 28 — meaning federal parties will be sprinting through a short campaign.
More to come.
In the days ahead of Sunday's federal election call, Shinade Allder posted a photo on her Facebook page of herself pushing a vacuum cleaner across the carpet of an empty storefront on Oxford Street West.
Issues of sovereignty, national security and defence — often footnotes, or even ignored outright in federal election campaigns — are likely to dominate the political landscape over the next five weeks as Canadians march toward the April 28 vote.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney kicked off his election campaign in St. John's on Sunday, promising tax cuts and also addressing the hundreds of protesting fish harvesters outside the city's convention centre.
Quebec will present its budget on Tuesday and the province's finance minister Eric Girard has signalled it will include financial supports to help businesses adapt to tariffs and the changing economic situation with the U.S.
With a federal election now looming just shy of over a month, candidates from Canada's major parties hit the ground running in Winnipeg on Sunday.
Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson has announced he will be running as the Liberal candidate for Vancouver Fraserview–South Burnaby in the upcoming federal election.
In ways no one could have understood at the time, June 16, 2015, turned out to be a momentous day for Canada and Canadian politics, the reverberations of which are only being fully felt now, nearly a decade later.
It's official.
The race to choose Canada's next prime minister began Sunday with each of the main party leaders making their pitch for why they are uniquely qualified to lead the country through a crisis.
The office of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is vehemently denying accusations that she asked the U.S. to interfere in Canadian federal politics, as comments Smith made during an interview with an American news outlet earlier this month made waves this weekend.
Four people are in custody after a shooting in North York Sunday afternoon that involved a Toronto police officer, police say.
Residents in a western P.E.I. community say Fisheries and Oceans Canada are ruining their local beach by dumping material dredged from a nearby harbour.