Promoters of English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents, including the 2025 federal budget.

A Canadian Conservative lawmaker has defected from his party and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals.

Ben Caldecott, founding director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, who helped author the UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s first climate change report at the time of Carney’s speech, said the address was critical in changing the agenda in the UK and beyond.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will be speaking with public sector unions in the coming weeks to hash out the details of the updated return-to-office rules for federal public servants.

The Liberal government will vote against a Conservative motion on Tuesday that calls for the federal government to support a bitumen pipeline, a senior government source tells CTV News.

Speaking after the Liberal caucus meeting, Carney said Parliament was “functioning well” and his government was “making progress,” singling out the passage of the Building Canada Act last spring. “We’re making progress. Canadians rightly expect us to make a lot more progress,” he told reporters.

It was followed by Carney and Smith sitting down in Edmonton after Labour Day, and a call between the two leaders during the Nov. 16 Grey Cup game in Winnipeg. From his perspective, Hodgson said the Saskatoon meetings stood out as a moment when it seemed like a broader understanding between the premiers and Ottawa was possible.

Canadian financier Mark Wiseman has officially been selected by Prime Minister Mark Carney to take up Canada’s most important diplomatic role – ambassador to the United States – as Ottawa prepares for tough USMCA trade talks, two sources say.

Chartering a last-minute private jet so Prime Minister Mark Carney could attend October’s signing of the Gaza peace plan cost taxpayers $736,466.11.