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Official results confirm NDP Kyle Campbell won Calgary-Shaw by 591 votes. Why Jason Kenney and others tied the UCP loss to the separation referendum, and how the Oct. 19 vote turned out.

More than 1,000 marched against Carney’s investment summit over fast-tracked assessments. Three Building Canada Act projects face listing decisions this fall.

Admittedly, the revelation by The Narwhal that Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) is seriously pondering a scheme to create public…

Ottawa cut in situ oil sands from the federal impact assessment list. The old rule only applied in provinces without an oil sands emissions cap. Alberta has one.

Statistics Canada says 98.4 per cent of households answered the 2026 census, one of the highest response rates it has recorded. But response rate is not coverage: in 2021, 63 reserves and settlements were incompletely enumerated, leaving an estimated 58,480 people out of every published table.

Roberta Metsola says the Ottawa liaison office will connect the EU’s 720 MEPs with Canadian MPs and senators. It lands three days before Carney addresses the Parliament.

Carney says Canada is not seeking EU membership. Article 49 of the EU treaty already limits applications to European states, so no such route exists.

A 2019 exemption letting refugees sponsor undeclared family expired Sept. 10. Ottawa cites integrity concerns; a 2023 memo called the risk minimal.

PC MHA Keith Russell quit Newfoundland and Labrador’s governing caucus Monday to sit as an independent, moments before the Churchill Falls debate began.

Federal organizations reported $1.04 billion in contracts to Indigenous businesses in 2024-25, down for a second straight year, while the value excluded from the five per cent calculation rose to $37 billion.