Redacted internal report by corporation's human rights body obtained by CBC News
As Ottawa publicly defended its largely permit-free procedure to send Canadian arms and munitions to the United States, the Crown corporation overseeing international transfers conducted a review of the final destination of those shipments, CBC News has learned.
Obtained through an access to information request, the assessment's main text is mostly redacted — including its conclusions.
It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.
A key goal of the Mark Carney government is to “increase our oil production”, according to the Canadian prime minister’s former Chief of Staff Marco Mendicino.
Another Justin Trudeau-era climate policy is now history: Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping the electric vehicle sales mandate and replacing it with “more stringent” fuel-efficiency standards and EV purchase rebates.
Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.
Researcher Tim Li says it’s a sign that wages aren’t keeping up with inflation.
A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests.
Researchers from the University of Toronto’s food insecurity research program analyzed Statistics Canada income data to better understand how Canadians’ jobs affect their access to food.
Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of racist and antisemitic language.]
Over the course of a two-hour-long conference call in August, two leaders of Canadian groups that experts have described as white nationalist and eager audience members bantered about deporting 10 million people, decried the existence of mixed-race marriages and children and said they would “be happy to march millions of Punjabis into the Pacific Ocean.”
Last year, Canadian politicians lowered the cost of new fossil-fuel burning passenger vehicles by thousands of dollars by scrapping the carbon price. Unsurprisingly, sales of these high-emissions cars and trucks surged by 135,000 to reach 1.8 million in 2025. If we want to avoid a full-blown climate crisis this number needs to be zero.
Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP), which has the third-largest membership base in federal politics, is facing controversy in its 2026 leadership race after an unelected three-person vetting committee rejected two successive candidates advancing an explicitly anti-war, anti-capitalist platform. The decision has sparked fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable political discourse within the country’s social democratic party.
From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn
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