TRENDING TODAY
NDP SUPPORT COLLAPSES TO RECORD LOWS AHEAD OF LEADERSHIP VOTE — A new Abacus Data survey finds only 34% of Canadians would consider voting NDP, down from 51% a decade ago, with a majority now viewing the party as irrelevant and 31% unsure what role it should even play in Canadian politics.
NDP HEADS TO WINNIPEG AT HISTORIC LOW TO PICK NEW LEADER — Five candidates are vying to replace Jagmeet Singh, who led the party to its worst result since 1961, leaving the NDP with just six MPs and new polling showing 44% of past NDP voters don't even recognize any of the leadership contenders.
LIBERAL FLOOR-CROSSER APOLOGIZES AFTER APPEARING TO DOWNPLAY FORCED LABOUR IN CHINA — MP Michael Ma faced backlash after aggressively questioning a China expert at committee, asking if evidence of forced labour was "hearsay," before his office admitted the line of questioning was a deliberate tactic to shift focus away from an anti-China EV witness.
ONTARIO DEFICIT NEARLY DOUBLES TO $13.8 BILLION AS FORD TABLES $244 BILLION BUDGET — Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy blamed global trade uncertainty as the province's projected shortfall surged from $7.8 billion, with Ontario's net debt now at $485 billion and on track to top half a trillion dollars by 2027, while opposition leaders slammed the budget for doing nothing on affordability.
POLICY DIGEST
WATCHDOG CALLS INDIGENOUS PROCUREMENT PROGRAM WORST SYSTEMIC FAILURE HE HAS SEEN — Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic found that mandatory audits were never performed, non-Indigenous businesses have been gaming the system, and the government's claims of hitting its 5% Indigenous contracting target are "absolutely inaccurate," prompting renewed calls for Indigenous groups to run the program themselves.
LIBERALS TABLE ELECTION BILL TARGETING DEEPFAKES, FOREIGN MONEY AND LONG BALLOTS — The Carney government's Strong and Free Elections Act would ban AI-generated deepfakes of candidates, extend foreign interference rules year-round, block untraceable donations like crypto and money orders, and hike maximum fines for Elections Act violations from $1,500 to $25,000 for individuals.
SMITH GOVERNMENT'S $9.4 BILLION DEFICIT COMES WITH TAX HIKES FOR ALBERTANS — Despite promises of fiscal discipline, the Alberta government is running a massive deficit until 2028/29 while hiking property taxes, raising the tourism levy by 50 per cent, and introducing a new vehicle rental tax that analysts say will hit Albertans far more than out-of-province visitors.
FRASER INSTITUTE: CARNEY'S INDUSTRIAL CARBON TAX HIKE WILL COST CANADA 50,000 JOBS BY 2030 — New modelling from the Fraser Institute projects that planned increases to the Industrial Carbon Tax, combined with Alberta's forced harmonization under the federal MOU, will shrink real GDP by 1.3 per cent nationally and 2.0 per cent in Alberta, while still falling short of Canada's Paris Agreement targets.