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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set to shuffle cabinet on Friday: source
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to shuffle the federal cabinet on Friday, March 01, 2019, as he looks to fill the void left by the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, a senior government source confirmed on Thursday, February 28, 2019, evening.
Liberals to introduce bill to provide no-cost pardons for simple pot crimes
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government will soon bring in legislation to provide pardons for anyone convicted of pot possession before the drug's legalization last year.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to speak to Senate committee on energy projects
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is to make her case in person to a Senate committee studying proposed legislation that would change how major energy projects are approved.
Liberals' bump in child benefits fuels poverty rate drop, Statistics Canada says
The national statistics office says fewer children are living in poverty and it is connecting the drop to the Liberal government's signature child benefit.
Trudeau looking forward to Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was important to waive solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidentiality to allow former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to tell her side of the SNC-Lavalin story before a parliamentary committee.
Liberals celebrate Quebec byelection win while NDP relieved over Singh's success
Liberal cabinet ministers expressed delight this morning over securing a win in a Quebec riding formerly held by Tom Mulcair while the NDP breathed a collective sigh of relief over their leader's byelection win.
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr wants court to rule sentence expired
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is to ask Alberta's youth court today to declare his eight-year sentence to have expired.
Jagmeet Singh claims House of Commons seat with byelection win
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh appeared poised to win his do-or-die bid to capture a British Columbia seat in the House of Commons.
Globally important fossil discovered in Prince Edward Island footprints
Fossilized footprints discovered on Prince Edward Island last year have been matched with a prehistoric predator, giving the site newfound global significance.
Political fate of Singh, NDP, on the line in federal byelections
Jagmeet Singh's political fate — and the fortunes of the New Democratic Party as a whole — are in the hands of voters today in a British Columbia riding.