Politics

Canada’s budget watchdog predicts Canada’s deficit doubled during the last fiscal year from $36.3 billion to $72 billion, citing “modest revenue growth” and growing expenses “largely reflecting the introduction of new measures.”

Louise Arbour, Canada’s next governor general, has met with King Charles III ahead of her swearing-in next week.

Canada is facing the prospect of entirely new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration after Washington claimed Ottawa has a poor track record on preventing importation of products of forced labour.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce the federal government’s strategy on artificial intelligence in Toronto today.

The Trump administration is “willing to use any leverage it has in order to get Canada, or any other country, to do what it wants,” a Washington-based U.S. Canada expert tells CTV News.

Amid widespread backlash and the fast-approaching deadline to review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, the federal government is directing the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions to review its recent decision to triple the amount it charges digital streaming giants to contribute to Canadian content.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is rejecting a Conservative call to split off the most controversial section of a bill to help police and spies into a separate piece of legislation.

Canadian Heritage Minister Marc Miller won’t say when his department ordered a financial audit of the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages after it received anonymous complaints.

Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says it was the 'honour of a lifetime' to serve in the post for the past five years.

U.S. President Donald Trump has revived calls for Canada to become the 51st state, after the country slipped into a technical recession on May 29.

In a letter to his counterparts in the United States and Mexico, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he wants to renew the countries’ trilateral trade deal for another 16 years and opt out of an annual review process.

A group that works to keep the internet surveillance-free says a federal bill intended to help police and intelligence services is “an enormous own goal” against Canada’s economy and security.

NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies has introduced a private member’s bill that would compel floor crossers to face their voters before switching parties.

The federal government’s new AI strategy will look to build trust in artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Tuesday, just days before he is expected to finally make the plan public.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says support for Quebec separatism was 'wiped out' under Stephen Harper’s government, but polls show the movement has had steady support for decades.