Maxime Bernier is emerging as true right wing leader. Tonight in Toronto in front of a big turnout he declared himself as a true right wing leader of the country.

This is despite the country being a signatory to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which specifies that if one of its partners enters a free trade deal with a “non-market” country such as China, the others can quit in six months and form their own bilateral trade pact. “This clause doesn’t prevent us from doing what we’re already …

NAFTA talks are resuming at the decision-maker level sooner than expected, with Canada’s foreign affairs minister set to return to Washington on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Chrystia Freeland’s office said the minister will be in D.C. for meetings tomorrow before travelling to Saskatoon for the Liberal caucus retreat. She also may return to Washington for more meetings at the end of the …

As more details come out about Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement, a women’s rights advocate says the incident is prompting a new conversation on sexual images and extortion. Last week, Tony Clement was asked to leave the Conservative party after admitting to having inappropriate sexual exchanges online. He reported the incident twice to police after being threatened with extortion. After, …

Resales of Canadian homes dipped 0.4 percent in September from August, the first decline since April, the Canadian Real Estate Association said on Monday. The industry group said actual sales, not seasonally adjusted, dropped 8.9 percent from a year earlier, while the group’s Home Price Index was up 2.3 percent from September last year.

Ontario’s highest court has paved the way for a considerable cut to the size of Toronto’s city council just weeks from a municipal election. Wednesday morning, a panel of three Court of Appeal justices stayed a lower court’s Sept. 10 ruling that struck down a provincial bill that would reduce the council from 47 to 25 members to align the …

Coalition Avenir Québec, a right-of-centre party that has never held power, will form a majority government in Quebec, dealing a historic blow to the incumbent Liberals. In a rowdy victory speech, premier-designate François Legault said voters had finally set aside the divisive battle over sovereignty that has consumed provincial politics for the last 50 years. “Today, we have made history,” he said. “There are …

Canadians will be entitled to more time off work after the birth or adoption of a child, but only if both new parents share the time at home with baby. The federal government is accelerating the timeline on a new parental sharing benefit aimed at seeing parents more equally share the responsibility of raising children in order to boost gender …

A government decision to strip Canadian citizenship from an elderly man, who argued he was forced as a teenager to join a Nazi death squad, was reasonable, a Federal Court judge ruled on Thursday. In a ruling that again paves the way to deport Helmut Oberlander, Judge Michael Phelan found the government’s decision more than a year ago to have …

After more than 10 days of dominating the news cycle, MP Maxime Bernier announced this week that he was quitting the Conservative Party of Canada. It all started with a series of tweets calling out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “extreme multiculturalism and cult of diversity.” That was quickly followed by a storm of controversy and debate. But Mr. Bernier also …