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Almost two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half want him to resign before the next election, a new survey suggests.

David Eby is a lot of things: the premier of British Columbia, the MLA for Point Grey, and Canada's last competent defender of carbon pricing. Is he also the federal NDP's leader-in-waiting and the person who can finish the work Jack Layton started?

The federal and provincial governments will each invest $900 million over the next four years to accelerate housing construction in Quebec, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault confirmed on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023.

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard is scheduled to present the province's fall economic update this morning.

The federal government plans to level out the number of new permanent residents to Canada in 2026 in reaction to a crunch on housing and other services, the immigration minister announced on Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh visited Iqaluit on Friday alongside Nunavut MP Lori Idlout to meet with territorial politicians about the housing and cost-of-living crisis.

The first mandate letters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his cabinet ministers in 2015 said no relationship was more important to him, and to the country, than the one with Indigenous Peoples.

A Toronto-based real estate company says it is planning to build 5,000 new rental units in urban centres across the country as a result of the federal government's decision to eliminate GST charges on rental developments.

MPs are returning to the House of Commons today determined to find relief for Canadians feeling the pinch of inflation.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will be discussing drug decriminalization and public drug use in the opening session of the annual Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention in Vancouver.

The Liberal government is dusting off a measure it promised years ago and pulling in other parties' proposals for cheaper groceries and more homes as it struggles to tackle affordability concerns that are top-of-mind for many Canadians.

City council has asked legal experts to assess the possibility of initiating a judicial review of the Ford government's decision to build housing on some of the formerly protected land. 

The experts all agree: Ending exclusionary zoning and adding more density in established neighbourhoods are the right ways to tackle the housing crisis. So why is it so difficult to do — and why are politicians so afraid to do it?

Doug Ford continues to plow ahead with his Greenbelt giveaway. Steven Guilbeault can stop it dead in its tracks. Why we might be headed for a major showdown between Ottawa and Ontario — one the Trudeau Liberals can actually win.

While no one explicitly told developers that Ontario planned to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing last year, the government telegraphed that message to builders through actions – and silence, the province's integrity commissioner found.