Poll suggests half of Canadians have negative opinion of latest Liberal budget
A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget, though there is broad support for their plan to build millions of homes.
Just shy of half the respondents to Leger's latest survey said they had a negative opinion of the federal budget, which was presented last Tuesday.
Only 21 per cent said they had a positive opinion, and one-third of respondents said they didn't know or preferred not to answer.
Border agency eyes smartphone facial recognition system amid privacy concerns
Travellers would be able to use facial recognition technology to identify themselves through their smartphones when crossing the border under a planned federal project.
The Canada Border Services Agency says the initiative would allow for a faster and more seamless travel experience.
The federal government recently issued a notice seeking technical solutions from possible vendors, an opportunity worth up to US$25 million.
The system would match a photo from a traveller's passport with a selfie taken via a mobile device.
Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies
Justin Trudeau says residents in Saskatchewan will continue to get carbon rebates while the province says it's not worried by the prime minister's push to get the Canada Revenue Agency to collect money owed.
The Saskatchewan government decided earlier this year not to remit the federal carbon price on natural gas to Ottawa, a move that breaks federal law.
Trudeau said Tuesday in Saskatoon that the Canada Revenue Agency has mechanisms to collect the money from the province.
Large study shows caribou herds in Alberta, B.C., growing from wolf culls, cow pens
Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing.
But the same paper concludes the biggest reason for the rebound is the slaughter of hundreds of wolves, a policy that will likely have to go on for decades.
"If we don't shoot wolves, given the state of the habitat that industry and government have allowed, we will lose caribou," said Clayton Lamb, one of 34 co-authors of a newly published study in the journal Ecological Applications.
"It's not the wolves' fault."
Ottawa police investigating chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Oct. 7 Hamas attack
It can sometimes be difficult to discern what constitutes a hate crime, Ottawa's police chief acknowledged Monday as he confirmed his department is investigating a pro-Palestinian protest over the weekend on Parliament Hill.
Members of the city's hate and bias unit began investigating complaints about the event Saturday, which police characterized as pertaining to the Gaza Strip.
Liberal government turning to influencers to get its message to younger Canadians
Dennis Mathu and Stephanie Gordon first started posting financial-advice videos on YouTube three years ago — a side hustle that helped to scratch a creative itch.
They never imagined it would lead them down some of the most powerful political corridors in Canada.
Mathu and Gordon — Steph & Den, as they're known online — were among several content creators invited to Tuesday's federal budget lockup, where they got early access to Ottawa's new spending blueprint.
MPs grill 'incompetent' health agency on fired National Microbiology Lab scientists
Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab defended security protocols at the Winnipeg institution against accusations from MPs of bureaucratic incompetence Friday.
"We acted as expeditiously as we could, given the information that was available," Public Health Agency of Canada head Heather Jeffrey said Friday.
Violinist tries to serenade B.C. orca calf to freedom, as others ready nets and boats
Carol Love watches the tides at a Vancouver Island lagoon, and when the time is right, she starts to play her violin.
She plays for an audience of one, a killer whale calf that has been trapped alone in the lagoon for almost a month.
Preparations for more conventional efforts to save the whale continue, involving a large fishing net.
But Love, from Nanaimo, B.C., stands and plays on a bridge at high tide, hoping her music entices the young orca to swim through a narrow channel, under the bridge and into the open ocean to freedom, no net required.
Here's more about Ottawa's plan to turn post offices, historic armouries into housing
A 1970s Canada Post building in Alberta and stone Quebec City army barracks dating back to 1856 are just some of the public lands the Liberal government plans to turn into homes.
The idea, outlined in the federal budget released Tuesday, is to use federally owned sites across the country to help ease the Canada-wide housing crunch.
Here's what to know.
How many properties are on the list?
The federal government is Canada's largest landowner.
In rare move, House admonishes private citizen for contempt in ArriveCan testimony
The House of Commons admonished a private citizen Wednesday for the first time in more than 100 years — a spectacle that provided plenty of social-media content for members of Parliament, many of whom were on their phones by the time it all ended.
It is just the latest example of ArriveCan fallout as MPs point fingers over the Liberal government's failure to manage development of the COVID-era app.
GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth was ordered to appear before the bar of the House after refusing to answer certain questions at a committee hearing.