National Post
Can Carney deliver? Liberals' ambitious fall session begins
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- Can Carney deliver? Liberals' ambitious fall session begins
- Runtime
- 23:18
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- MPs returned to Ottawa this week for what’s expected to be a busy legislative session, as Mark Carney’s Liberals look to make headway on its lofty agenda.
But with big ideas can come issues around execution, politics, and how to pay for it all.
National Post politics writer Simon Tuck joins me to discuss Carney’s priorities for the fall, how the government hopes to implement some of its agenda, and whether there could be any surprises.
Read more: From a big deficit budget to cracks in the coalition: The next 100 days for Mark Carney (https://nationalpost.com/feature/next-100-days-mark-carney)
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- Canada’s debt-to-GDP rising
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- Doug Ford says Ontario doing away with speed cameras
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 25, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that he would be introducing legislation to get rid of speed cameras in the province.
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- Supreme Court of Canada stays B.C. ostrich cull
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 24, the Supreme Court of Canada granted a last-minute stay in the destruction of a flock of ostriches at a farm in southeastern B.C.
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- Poilievre questions public safety minister over gun buy-back program
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The federal government announced Sept. 21 it was moving ahead with a pilot program for individual gun owners who want to receive compensation for prohibited firearms, while the minister responsible for the policy came under increasing fire
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- Palestinian statehood a 'reward' to Hamas, Trump says
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 23, U.S. President Trump spoke for nearly an hour during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.
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- Trump jokes after teleprompter hitch
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 23, U.S. President Donald Trump's teleprompter cut out as he was beginning to make his speech to the general assembly.
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- Concordia's student handbook wants you to celebrate Nakba Day, but not Christmas
- Runtime
- 7:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Terry Newman discuss Concordia's 2025 student handbook with student union council member Anastasia Zorchinsky.
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- Carney at UN: Canada recognizes Palestinian state
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- Canadian academia overwhelmingly left-leaning, prof. says
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 22, Trent University professor Christopher Dummit told the parliamentary committee on science and research that his research found an overwhelming number of professors placed themselves on the political left.
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- The housing affordability fix that Canada refuses to adopt
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- You probably already know that Canada has the most unaffordable housing basically anywhere in the world. A problem that Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to fix by simply building a bunch of modular homes.
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- This is where most asylum seekers enter Canada
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- Canada and Mexico's trade relationship
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Mexico is Canada’s third largest trading partner while Canada is Mexico’s fifth largest.
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- What is the notwithstanding clause?
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The federal government is looking to put limits on this clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights.
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- Mark Carney’s French is really quite bad
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Anyone who spends a little bit of time around Quebec politics realizes that they’re really, really serious about protecting the French language. So it’s somewhat unexpected that in the 2025 federal election they went all-in for a prime minister who doesn’t speak it.
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- Parliament observes moment of silence in honour of Ken Dryden
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- 5:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 17, 2025, MPs stood for a moment of silence in tribute to the late hockey player and federal minister Ken Dryden, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney. Dryden died on Sept. 5, at the age of 78.
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- The 5 superbugs Canada is most worried about
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Drug-resistant superbugs are a growing threat to Canadians.
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- Poilievre says Liberals failing to lower food cost
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- As Trump's impact fades, Carney faces a big challenge
- Runtime
- 6:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the big challenges ahead for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
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- Bloc leader attacks Carney over his handling of relationship with U.S.
- Runtime
- 3:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 15, Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet questioned Prime Minister Mark Carney during the first parliamentary session of the fall period.
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- Mark Carney's first question period with Pierre Poilievre
- Runtime
- 8:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 15, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre faced each other during the first parliamentary session of the fall period.
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- Jim Balsillie on Canada’s outdated approach to innovation
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch the full video here https://youtu.be/zUX8v3MQPzo?si=FO5vlWEnB23gs57S
The co-founder of Blackberry, Jim Balsillie, joins veteran policy adviser Robert Asselin and National Post’s John Ivison to discuss the problems with Canada’s traditional and arguably outdated approach to innovation, trade and competitiveness — and why it leaves us dangerously vulnerable to U.S. economic power.
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- Jim Balsillie "Canada has built a house of sticks instead of a house of bricks"
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch full video at https://youtu.be/zUX8v3MQPzo?si=FO5vlWEnB23gs57S
The co-founder of Blackberry, Jim Balsillie, joins veteran policy adviser Robert Asselin and National Post’s John Ivison to discuss the problems with Canada’s traditional and arguably outdated approach to innovation, trade and competitiveness — and why it leaves us dangerously vulnerable to U.S. economic power.
- Title
- Why Gen Zs are freezing their eggs and sharing their stories
- Runtime
- 19:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Canadian women are changing the conversation around when and how they want to have babies, with many of them opting to freeze their eggs. And more and more, led by Gen Z, they’re having the conversation online.
Calgary Herald reporter Devika Desai joins Dave Breakenridge to explore why, and how social media is shaping the conversation.
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- Videos allegedly show Charlie Kirk assassin
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk at a Utah Valley University event fired from the roof of the Losee Center. Videos allegedly show the suspect before and after the fatal shooting on Sept. 10, 2025.
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- Canada’s multi-billion dollar bet on battery plants is “disastrous” policy, says Balsillie
- Runtime
- 35:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The co-founder of Blackberry, Jim Balsillie, says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies to build battery plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.” He joins veteran policy adviser Robert Asselin and National Post’s John Ivison to discuss the problems with Canada's traditional and arguably outdated approach to innovation, trade and competitiveness — and why it leaves us dangerously vulnerable to U.S. economic power.
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- Carney announces 5 major projects to be considered for fast-tracking
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- 4:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 11, Mark Carney announced the first five proposals that are being considered for fast-tracking, including a liquefied natural gas terminal expansion and two critical mineral mining projects.
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- FULL STATEMENT: Trump calls Charlie Kirk a 'martyr for freedom'
- Runtime
- 4:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In a video message from the Oval Office late Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk “a martyr for truth and freedom.”
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- Boost Canadian defence spending with this one simple trick
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Something big just happened in the Canadian military: They quadrupled the number of military vessels overnight.
How? Simple. We took the Canadian Coast Guard – which for decades has been run by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans – and signed it over to the Department of Defence. Boom: Instant $3 billion boost to Canadian defence spending.
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- Pierre Poilievre says government must axe taxes on homes
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 9, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he wanted Prime Minister Mark Carney to adopt his plan to deal with the country’s housing crisis.
Poilievre said the Liberals should eliminate the federal sales tax on all homes worth $1.3 million or less and incentivize municipalities to speed up permits and cut development charges.
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- Psychosurgery is back — but this isn’t your grandfather’s lobotomy
- Runtime
- 20:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Modern brain surgery for mental health, like OCD, is far more precise than past methods like lobotomies—but is it safer or more ethical? Reporter Sharon Kirkey joins Dave Breakenridge to explore the history, new tech, and lingering concerns.
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- Video shows attempted Vaughan home invasion
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, at approximately 2:20 a.m., York Regional Police officers responded to an attempted home invasion in Vaughan, Ont. At least one suspect was armed with a handgun. There were two adults and two children in the home at the time, police say.
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- How many temporary foreign workers Canada has let in
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the first six months of 2025, 33,722 new temporary foreign workers (TFW) arrived in Canada.
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- Video captures distraction thefts amid surge in Toronto
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Toronto police say distraction thefts have surged to 374 cases between January and September 2025. That's up from just 28 in the same period in 2024.
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- Canadian universities are filled with secret conservatives
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy released a survey about how often Canadian university students will actively conceal what they really think because they’re afraid of getting into trouble. The answer is, a lot. Almost half of them.
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- Who is North Korea's heir, Ju Ae?
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ju Ae was first featured in state-run media in 2022, at the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile alongside her father.
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- Smith says Alberta's book removals order will be rewritten
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 3, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government is rewriting a ministerial order directing school divisions to ban books containing sexually explicit content to ensure classic books stay on library shelves
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- Vaughan mayor holds press conference with brother of fatal home invasion victim
- Runtime
- 30:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 3, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca held a joint press conference with Naeem Farooqi, whose brother Abdul Aleem Farooqi was fatally shot during a home invasion in Vaughan, Ont.
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- Family of father killed in Vaughan home invasion calls attackers 'cowards'
- Runtime
- 3:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 3, Naeem Farooqi, whose brother Abdul Aleem Farooqi was fatally shot during a home invasion in Vaughan, Ont. called for lawmakers "to make sure that this doesn't happen to any other family."
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- Why Quebec is planning to ban public prayers
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Canadian province of Quebec has just announced plans to ban street prayers. If you are in a public place in Quebec and you say something directed as a deity, the plan is that this will henceforth become illegal. But to be clear, the Quebec government never said they’re banning street prayers because of all the guys in keffiyehs kneeling towards mecca at their anti-Israel demonstration.
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- Liberals set 100 day timeline to address CRA delays
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Canada’s finance minister has said he will address service delays at the Canada Revenue Agency within 100 days.
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- Trump responds to 'so fake' hoax about his death
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Sept. 2, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed online rumours that he had died because of a lack of media engagements over the Labor Day weekend.
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- Doug Ford pours out a bottle of Crown Royal over job cuts
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- At a press conference in Kitchener, Ont. on Sept. 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford dumped out a bottle of Crown Royal and encouraged others to dump the whisky as well. Spirits maker Diageo announced last week that it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some bottling volume to the United States. The move will affect about 200 jobs.
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- Poilievre proposes expanding right to defend against home invaders
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Aug. 29, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre proposed adding an amendment to the Criminal Code to deem the use of force to be presumed reasonable when used against home invaders.
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- Yes, the U.S. is selling oceans of Canadian natural gas at a markup
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Canada sends nearly half of its natural gas to the United States each year via pipeline. And increasingly, the United States is reselling that gas to Europe, where it commands a higher price due to shortages of Russian gas caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Canadian natural gas producers would love to sell directly to Europe and reap the profits of those much higher European natural gas prices for themselves, but they can’t.
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- In Canada, you can legally kill a home invader — but it could cost you
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- If you are a Canadian and you hear an armed burglar sneaking into your home in the middle of the night, you can legally shoot, stab or them as much as you feel is necessary. You’re almost certainly never going to face a criminal conviction for doing so because, the home invader started it. But there's a caveat – and it’s a big caveat.
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- Carney hasn't got a single shovel in the ground: Poilievre
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Aug. 27, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Prime Minister Mark Carney isn't moving quickly enough to get major projects underway in Canada.
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- Poilievre says Carney is bringing back carbon tax on gas
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Aug. 27, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would use Parliament’s looming return to push the Carney government into getting rid of what he’s calling the “carbon tax 2.0.”
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- Why 10 cents of every Canadian tax dollar immediately evaporates
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- If you are a Canadian taxpayer, every time you’re forced to send a dollar to Ottawa, only 90 cents of it ever finds its way towards paying for government stuff.
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- Canada not expected to meet housing target in the next decade
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
