Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Getty Images From left to right: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal leader Mark Carney, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre Prime Minister and Liberal leader Mark Carney has called an election […]
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Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Watch: Pierre Poilievre’s leadership: four key moments in opposition At 20 years old, Pierre Poilievre already had a roadmap for Canada. Canada’s Conservative Party leader – now 45 – laid out a low-tax, small government
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A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay more than $650m (£507m) in damages to a Texas-based oil company for its role in one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history. Energy
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A Palestinian student activist, who was detained by US immigration officers earlier this month, has spoken out for the first time about his arrest. In a letter dictated over the phone to his family from an ICE detention facility in
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A midwife in Texas has been arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions and operating a network of unlawful clinics in the Houston area. Maria Margarita Rojas has been charged with providing an abortion and practising medicine without a licence, according
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As leaders around the world try to figure out how best to deal with the new Trump administration, one Canadian official has come out swinging. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a regular on major US networks where he has addressed Americans
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Canada’s most populous province Ontario is slapping a retaliatory 25% surcharge on electricity it sends to US states in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods. Ontario leader Doug Ford confirmed the move in a news conference on
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Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Watch: ‘It’s frustrating’ – How Trump’s tariffs are being received in Canada If you had asked Canadians a few months ago who would win the country’s next general election, most would have predicted a decisive
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The US Supreme Court has rejected a request by the Trump administration to withhold nearly $2bn-worth of payments (£1.6bn) to foreign aid organisations for work they have already performed for the government. The top court on Wednesday endorsed a lower
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Ahead of Tuesday’s speech, Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico and said there is ‘no room left’ to negotiate with them US President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech to Congress on Tuesday evening, in which he
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