Now, free from the agreement with the federal Liberals, the NDP can lean into its historic bread-and-butter roots of championing working-class people against corporate profiteering and a laissez-faire government.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh pulled the plug on his party's supply and confidence deal Wednesday. Singh’s decision, coming on the heels of Poilievre’s attempts to bully him into breaking faith with the government, looks like a show of weakness rather than strength.
The NDP had been re-evaluating the deal since Aug. 22, the day Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impose binding arbitration to end a work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway that paralyzed Canada's transportation networks.
Jagmeet Singh and the NDP sit in the shadow of the Liberal Government, caught between criticizing those in power while also attempting to claim agency over bills being passed.
The ads question why Singh is keeping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power at a time when national opinion polls show the Liberal minority government remains unpopular with Canadians.
Thermal coal contains significant amounts of mercury, which can threaten the development of unborn babies, and accumulate in bodies and aquatic food chains.
Replacement legislation for the Harper era Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act has been passed by the House through a unanimous motion and is now being considered by the Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee.
A majority of Canadians are rightfully concerned about affordability. Conservative media, politicians and advertisers amplify these economic concerns and use them to turn us against taxes and government spending.
The discovery that pollution from a paper mill is contributing to long-standing mercury poisoning afflicting the nearby First Nation is another example of how widespread and persistent the problem has become, federal MPs say.
When wildfires and floods arrive on a community’s doorstep, residents need information to know how to act. But what happens when cell service and the internet are down?
Pierre Poilievre's politicizing of human rights issues to dangle them like red meat before the party’s base before an election signifies a new low in Canadian politics.
The federal government announced a new registry to track plastic production to set the tone as negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty kick off on April 23 in Ottawa.