As Pierre Poilievre sails through his leadership review, what challenges lie ahead for the Conservative leader?

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government “focused on results for Canadians,” and is not considering a snap election. On Monday, Carney announced a boost to the GST credit, as part of a suite of new affordability measures, in a grocery-store press conference reminiscent of election-time campaign stops.

There’s nothing in the Canadian constitution that specifically empowers the prime minister to unilaterally trigger elections at any time. Rather, it’s just worked out that way as a consequence of the centuries-long process of gradually transferring power from the Crown to the prime minister and his cabinet.

Nine months after falling definitively short in the 2025 federal election, Pierre Poilievre is facing a mandatory leadership review at this weekend’s Conservative Party convention. By all accounts, he’s likely to cruise through the review,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite image of Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, right, and an American flag held outside the White House in Washington, D.C. (Carolyn Kaster ...

Anton Boegman, a former B.C. chief electoral officer, is likely to become Canada's first foreign influence transparency commissioner.

Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday,

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Canada’s opposition Conservative Party voted to hand a fresh endorsement to its leader Pierre Poilievre nine months after a shock election which saw him narrowly lose to Mark Carney’s Liberal Party.