On June 15, 2026, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon tabled Bill C-36, an Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA) — the most significant rewrite of Canada's private-sector privacy law since PIPEDA took effect in 2001. The bill's…

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act (full title: "An Act respecting lawful access"), passed third reading in the House of Commons on June 18, 2026 and received first reading in the Senate the same day. According to Parliament's own LEGISinfo record, committee consideration, report stage, and third…

On March 12, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued Telecom Regulatory Policy 2026-43, amending the Wireless Code and the Internet Code to prohibit fees that discourage Canadians from switching plans or providers. The rules took full effect on June 12…

Canada produced about 6.1 million barrels of oil per day in 2025. Its 14 refineries can process about 1.9 million barrels per day and ran at roughly 90% of that capacity. The arithmetic gap defines the system: roughly 4 million barrels a day leave the country as crude, 98% of it to the United…

Canadians commonly call it the cell phone monopoly. Technically it is an oligopoly: Bell, Rogers, and Telus, together with the flanker brands they own — Fido, Chatr and Cityfone (Rogers), Koodo and Public Mobile (Telus), Virgin Plus and Lucky Mobile (Bell) — control roughly 90% of the Canadian…

Tax Freedom Day is the Fraser Institute's annual calculation of the day the average Canadian family has earned enough money to pay the taxes it owes to federal, provincial, and local governments combined. In 2026, that day is June 9. By the Fraser methodology, the average Canadian family (two or…

Parliamentary privilege is a set of legal protections enjoyed by members of Parliament that allow them to perform their legislative duties without external interference. The most-cited element is freedom of speech in the chamber — an MP cannot be sued for defamation, or charged with hate speech…

On May 21, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) finalized a decision tripling the mandatory contribution rate that foreign streaming services with $25 million or more in Canadian revenue must pay to Canadian-content production funds — from a 5% interim rate…

Every recorded division in the House of Commons is published on the official record — Hansard for the debate, and the LEGISinfo + ourcommons.ca portals for the vote tallies. This article teaches readers how to navigate those records: how to find a specific vote, how to identify each MP's position…

The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) was created in 2006 to provide non-partisan, independent analysis to Parliament on the federal budget, economic projections, and the financial implications of legislation. The PBO is led by an Officer of Parliament appointed for a seven-year…

Across Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office (March 2025 - February 2026), in-flight catering on the 28 official flights he took as Prime Minister cost approximately $524,815 CAD (£281,773 in the original UK media reporting). The figure was provided in writing by the Government of…

On May 27, 2026, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government in Ontario voted down Bill 113, the Fair Prices and Tax-Free Groceries Act, 2026, introduced by NDP MPP Tom Rakocevic. The bill would have removed the entire 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) from all food and drink sold in Ontario —…

On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund — characterized in the official news release as "Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund." The fund's initial federal contribution is $25 billion, seeded over three years, with stated investment priorities in…

In January 2026, during Prime Minister Mark Carney's state visit to Beijing, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police signed a memorandum of understanding on law-enforcement cooperation with the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS). A joint statement from Carney and Chinese…

Mark Carney won the 2025 federal election on a central economic promise — repeated verbatim when he called the April 28, 2025 election — to "build the strongest economy in the G7" and to manage Canada through President Trump's tariff war. As of the most recent Statistics Canada national-accounts…

This article catalogues documented cases in which individuals tied to terrorism — by criminal conviction, by United Nations Security Council sanctions listing, or by the Government of Canada's own terrorist-entity designations — obtained Canadian entry, residency, or citizenship. The standard…

Mark Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management in 2020 as Vice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Investing, later becoming Chair of the Brookfield Asset Management board. He held those roles until January 2025, immediately before launching his successful Liberal leadership campaign and becoming…

On a state visit to India that concluded on March 2, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a series of measures to deepen the Canada-India bilateral education relationship. The most-publicized commitment was a University of Toronto pledge of up to $100 million to fund up to 200 fully-funded…

The Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (Bill C-48), passed by Parliament in June 2019, bans crude oil tankers carrying more than 12,500 metric tonnes from stopping, loading, or unloading at ports along the northern coast of British Columbia — specifically the waters from the northern tip of Vancouver…

In the lead-up to the October 30, 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum, the Grand Council of the Crees of Eeyou Istchee (northern Quebec) and the Inuit of Nunavik (the Arctic-coast region of Quebec) each held their own referendums on whether they would consent to be included in a sovereign Quebec…

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will perform their last show in their current configuration on October 11, 2026, then stand down until new aircraft arrive in the early 2030s. The 55-year history of the squadron — over 2,700 air displays for an estimated 140 million viewers across North America —…

Canadian motor vehicle production fell from 2,393,890 units in 2014 to 1,339,288 units in 2024, a decline of approximately 44 percent over the decade in which the Liberal Party formed federal government. Direct employment in motor vehicle and parts manufacturing stands at around 130,000 today…

Bill C-22's defenders argue that the bill's safeguards and stated use cases will prevent the new surveillance powers from being misused. The argument is not new. Canadians have heard versions of it before every previous expansion of federal surveillance authority, from the 1939 establishment of…

On April 20, 2026, the House of Commons passed Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) at second reading. The bill is now at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU), which is the last realistic stage for substantive amendments. This article catalogues the load-bearing…

On March 16, 2026, Defence Minister David McGuinty announced a 10-year, $200-million lease agreement between the Department of National Defence and Halifax-based Maritime Launch Services (MLS) for a dedicated launch pad at Spaceport Nova Scotia near Canso. The deal pays MLS $20 million annually…

On May 2, 2026, signature collection closed on a citizen-initiative petition under Alberta’s Citizen Initiative Act asking whether the province should leave Canada. The petition’s organizer, Mitch Sylvestre of the Alberta Prosperity Project / Stay Free Alberta, reported approximately 302,000…

Candidate nomination contests are how Canada’s federal political parties select who will appear on the ballot as their candidate in each riding. The Canada Elections Act does not regulate who can vote in those contests; it leaves the rules entirely to each party. The Foreign Interference…

On April 28, 2026 — the first day the Liberals’ new House majority took effect — two House of Commons standing committees voted to go in camera on motions involving public-interest accountability. At HESA (Health), Liberal Parliamentary Secretary Maggie Chi moved to take the meeting in camera…

PrescribeIT, the federal e-prescribing service operated by Canada Health Infoway and built primarily by Telus Health, will go offline at 11:59 PM EST on May 29, 2026. Health Canada has acknowledged "more than $290 million" in federal spending on the program over 10 years; Conservative MPs use the…

On November 4, 2025 — the morning of the federal budget — Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont became the first Conservative to cross to Mark Carney’s Liberals, six months after winning re-election by 533 votes on the Conservative ticket. Within ten days, the watchdog group Democracy Watch filed a…

Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to Mark Carney’s Liberals on December 11, 2025 — nine days after a Hansard speech in which he attacked the Liberal record on housing, productivity, and economic governance, calling them "team feudalism." He has since admitted he was "truly a…

On November 6, 2025, Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux announced he was resigning from Parliament, telling constituents there was "no coercion" involved and that his focus needed to be on his family. On February 18, 2026, he reversed course, kept the Edmonton Riverbend seat his constituents had…

On January 11, 2026, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu told a local newspaper she supported a petition calling for automatic byelections when MPs switch parties, saying voters "deserve a chance to have a redo." On April 8, 2026, she crossed the floor to the Liberals herself. Sarnia-Lambton’s mayor and…

Between November 2025 and April 2026, four Conservative MPs crossed the floor to join the Liberal caucus. Combined with three byelection victories, these crossings gave the Liberals a working majority in the House of Commons — without a general election. An Angus Reid poll found 74% of Canadians…

On June 15, 2026, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon tabled Bill C-36, an Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA) — the most significant rewrite of Canada's private-sector privacy law since PIPEDA took effect in 2001. The bill's…

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act (full title: "An Act respecting lawful access"), passed third reading in the House of Commons on June 18, 2026 and received first reading in the Senate the same day. According to Parliament's own LEGISinfo record, committee consideration, report stage, and third…

On March 12, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued Telecom Regulatory Policy 2026-43, amending the Wireless Code and the Internet Code to prohibit fees that discourage Canadians from switching plans or providers. The rules took full effect on June 12…

Canada produced about 6.1 million barrels of oil per day in 2025. Its 14 refineries can process about 1.9 million barrels per day and ran at roughly 90% of that capacity. The arithmetic gap defines the system: roughly 4 million barrels a day leave the country as crude, 98% of it to the United…

Canadians commonly call it the cell phone monopoly. Technically it is an oligopoly: Bell, Rogers, and Telus, together with the flanker brands they own — Fido, Chatr and Cityfone (Rogers), Koodo and Public Mobile (Telus), Virgin Plus and Lucky Mobile (Bell) — control roughly 90% of the Canadian…

Tax Freedom Day is the Fraser Institute's annual calculation of the day the average Canadian family has earned enough money to pay the taxes it owes to federal, provincial, and local governments combined. In 2026, that day is June 9. By the Fraser methodology, the average Canadian family (two or…

Parliamentary privilege is a set of legal protections enjoyed by members of Parliament that allow them to perform their legislative duties without external interference. The most-cited element is freedom of speech in the chamber — an MP cannot be sued for defamation, or charged with hate speech…

On May 21, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) finalized a decision tripling the mandatory contribution rate that foreign streaming services with $25 million or more in Canadian revenue must pay to Canadian-content production funds — from a 5% interim rate…

Every recorded division in the House of Commons is published on the official record — Hansard for the debate, and the LEGISinfo + ourcommons.ca portals for the vote tallies. This article teaches readers how to navigate those records: how to find a specific vote, how to identify each MP's position…

The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) was created in 2006 to provide non-partisan, independent analysis to Parliament on the federal budget, economic projections, and the financial implications of legislation. The PBO is led by an Officer of Parliament appointed for a seven-year…

Across Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office (March 2025 - February 2026), in-flight catering on the 28 official flights he took as Prime Minister cost approximately $524,815 CAD (£281,773 in the original UK media reporting). The figure was provided in writing by the Government of…

On May 27, 2026, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government in Ontario voted down Bill 113, the Fair Prices and Tax-Free Groceries Act, 2026, introduced by NDP MPP Tom Rakocevic. The bill would have removed the entire 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) from all food and drink sold in Ontario —…

On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund — characterized in the official news release as "Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund." The fund's initial federal contribution is $25 billion, seeded over three years, with stated investment priorities in…

In January 2026, during Prime Minister Mark Carney's state visit to Beijing, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police signed a memorandum of understanding on law-enforcement cooperation with the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS). A joint statement from Carney and Chinese…

Mark Carney won the 2025 federal election on a central economic promise — repeated verbatim when he called the April 28, 2025 election — to "build the strongest economy in the G7" and to manage Canada through President Trump's tariff war. As of the most recent Statistics Canada national-accounts…