Liberals
N.S. Liberal budget opens up spending taps as province faces slowing economy
The 2020-21 provincial budget tabled Feb. 25 features $11.5 billion in spending with a modest surplus of $55 million
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Liberals’ fiscal update shows billions more in deficits but steady economy
Finance Department said the deeper deficit is largely driven by changes to how employee pensions and benefits are calculated.
Baloney Meter: Is Trudeau’s mandate the ‘weakest’ in Canadian history?
Statement is mostly true, but no definitive standard, more information is required.
Parliament set to reconvene with Speaker election on Dec. 5 [UPDATED]
Scheer wanted the House of Commons to begin sitting Nov. 25.
US House ways and means chair talks new NAFTA with Liberals in Ottawa
Richard Neal will be key to bringing ratification of the new USMCA to the floor of Congress for final legal approval.
Pressure for climate action mounts on Liberals
Our Time youth members arrested in the House of Commons demanding a Canadian “green new deal.”
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Business warns of election omission: an economic game plan
Wants government to build blueprints on how best to boost growth and to ensure Canadian competitiveness.
TMX pipeline could fund $500M a year in clean energy projects
Morneau says the pipeline extension to the BC coast is a crucial piece of financing for a clean energy economy.
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Election 2019: Liberals knocked backed to a minority government
Trudeau asserts that the October 21 results give him “a clear mandate.”
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Conservatives and Liberals can agree on climate change action
Rapid action is needed that requires a big-tent non-partisan environmental movement.
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Election 2019: Trudeau attacks Tories for not releasing platform
Leaders prepare for the Oct. 7 debate, the last time any of them will debate each other in English.
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Election campaign: Grits, Tories in dead heat, NDP, Greens tied
Leger poll suggests the Liberals were ahead in Ontario and Quebec,which account for almost 60% of the 338 seats.
Food fight: Liberals, Tories trade shots as pre-campaign battles intensify
There’s three months to go before the federal election and public opinion polls indicate the Libs and Cons in a neck-and-neck fight for power.
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Ex-envoy’s advice to China about election ‘highly inappropriate’: Freeland
Comments came as Chinese authorities block key imports from Canada and detain two Canadians on espionage charges.
Liberals nominate well known anti-pipeline activist to take Montreal NDP seat
Steven Guilbeault in 1993 helped found a major environmental advocacy group in Quebec called Equiterre.
