India's foreign ministry says Canada is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims its government officials have worked with criminal gangs in the extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced Andrew Bevan as the Liberal Party's new campaign chair, as some MPs reportedly band together to ask their leader to step down.

Ottawa's decision on Monday to expel India's top envoy and five other diplomats is just the latest development in tensions that have simmered for months between the two countries.

Canadians are set to receive carbon pricing rebates on Tuesday, as the Liberals defend one of their most embattled policies.

Canada's decision to expel New Delhi's top envoy and five other diplomats is front-page news in India, as an analyst wonders how other countries will respond.

Trudeau has not yet commented on the loss, but it is the second time in three months that his party lost a stronghold in a byelection. In June the Conservatives defeated the Liberals narrowly in Toronto-St. Paul's.

The Liberals have accused the Conservatives of dismissing the expertise of more than 200 economists who wrote a letter earlier this year describing the carbon price as the least expensive, most efficient way to lower emissions.

Chief Dsta'hyl (aka Adam Gagnon) who represents one of the clans within the Wet'suwet'en Nation was arrested in 2021 for breaching a court order not to impede construction of the Coastal GasLink liquefied natural gas pipeline, and is currently confined to house arrest.

India's envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.

Advocates are calling on Ottawa to profoundly change the powers of the watchdog who monitors Canadian corporations operating abroad, as the Liberals review how a new ombudsman should take on the job.