NDP

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… What’s next for Singh and his broken political pact with Trudeau? NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh may hold the key to trigger the next election now that he’s axed his political pact with the Liberals. But strategists say that […]

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has ripped up the supply and confidence deal with the Liberals that helped keep the minority government in power.  In a social media video posted Wednesday afternoon, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he notified Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the decision.  “Canadians are fighting a battle.  A battle for the future […]

New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat. Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next […]

REGINA – Opposition New Democrats have sounded the alarm about the future of the Evraz plant in Regina. Saskatchewan NDP leader Carla Beck stood alongside steelworkers at a media event outside the plant on Wednesday. At that event Beck told reporters the plant workers were uncertain and in the dark about their future. “Not a peep […]

The Liberal government’s changes to capital gains taxation came into effect Tuesday, despite significant pushback from business and physicians’ groups. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s spring budget proposed making two-thirds of capital gains — the profit made on the sale of assets such as a secondary residence or stocks — taxable, rather than one-half. For individuals’ capital gains of $250,000 or less, […]

The Saskatchewan NDP is asking the speaker of the legislature to convene the Standing Committee on House Services, to probe allegations made by the speaker on the last day of the sitting last month. As the house was about to adjourn for the summer, and more than likely, until an election in October, Randy Weekes […]

An NDP MP says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.  Laurel Collins says legislators from across party lines have supported her private member’s bill, which seeks to criminalize […]

The federal New Democrats want a price cap on grocery store staples if the Liberal government can’t convince grocers to bring down the prices themselves.  For months, the Liberals have been trying to get big grocers in Canada to sign a code of conduct that they say will bring down food prices for everyone. And […]

REGINA — The Saskatchewan NDP are painting Sask Party Cabinet Minister Jeremy Harrsion as a liar about recent revelations he brought a hunting gun to the legislature. The NDP is accusing Harrison of lying when he denied claims made by the speaker of the house on the last sitting day of the legislature last month.  […]

A provincial cabinet minister who initially told the premier he didn’t bring a long gun into the legislature, only to reverse himself days later, says talks with family members helped jog his memory. Jeremy Harrison says while recently talking about hunting in the Regina area, there was a “flash” in his mind of him walking past legislature […]