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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting down with two of Canada's big-city western mayors in Ottawa, part of a broader bridge-building effort to deal with growing frustrations in the West.

Ministers will meet for the first time in their new roles later on Thursday afternoon.

The public impeachment hearings into Donald Trump's conduct are entering the fifth day on Thursday. 

The public impeachment hearings on U.S. President Donald Trump's conduct are entering the fifth day on Thursday. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet must choose action over contemplation if they hope for political success, says Global's Chief Political Correspondent David Akin.

The most important relationship Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has within his cabinet is with Chrystia Freeland. By tasking her with improving relations with the provinces, Trudeau put her at the centre of much of his minority government's ambitious policy goals.

With the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as deputy prime minister, Justin Trudeau has resurrected a cabinet position that lay dormant for the past 13 years. But what, exactly, is expected of a deputy prime minister?

Bill Blair’s promotion to public safety minister is receiving mixed reviews, with some observers saying they're worried the former police chief’s appointment signals a shift away from national security matters.

A huge international network of fake local news sites that push a pro-Indian government position internationally has a deep Canadian connection, CBC News has learned. Some of the sites pose as Canadian news outlets.

Wednesday’s tussle began with squabbles over a program that some Democrats worry could alienate swing voters who are wary of fully government-run health care and fear it would be extraordinarily difficult to get through Congress.

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador the EU and one of the most anticipated witnesses said “everyone was in the loop” about U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine to announce investigations into a Ukraine gas company and the 2016 U.S. election.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence Laura Cooper told lawmakers Wednesday the Ukrainian government asked "what was going on'' with U.S. military aid as early as July 25 -- the very day that Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate Democrats.

Trump's notes, believed to have been written with a Sharpie, became an off-beat moment during an otherwise serious week of public impeachment inquiries.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, equalization payments and federal laws that Kenney says hurt Alberta's energy industry have all been brought up as concerns.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer scoffed at the composition of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new federal cabinet Wednesday, saying the presence of many of the same faces will result in the same failures as his last government.

Donald Trump's allies have cobbled together two defences in the impeachment inquiry. Yet there's a problem with those defences: the dates don't add up.

Two Conservative strategists say both the party and leader Andrew Scheer need to modernize their approach to social issues if they want to convince more Canadians to vote for them.

After an election that reduced the governing Liberals to a minority, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a number of changes to his cabinet to adjust to new political realities.

Under Israeli law, parliament now enters a 21-day period where any lawmaker can try to muster a 61-seat majority and become prime minister.

Conservatives Pierre Poilievre and Gérard Deltell hold a news conference to comment on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choices for his new cabinet.  

BQ Leader Yves-François Blanchet comments on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choices for his new cabinet.

Quebecers will occupy some of the most prominent positions in the new Liberal cabinet, including foreign affairs and justice, but environmentalists in the province say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caved to pressure from Western Canada by giving a minor post to one of their key allies.

Nova Scotia MP Bernadette Jordan was named minister of fisheries, oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.

New Brunswick was hit with the federal carbon tax because it was one of the provinces that had not implemented its own carbon-pricing scheme.

Everything about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet lineup seems calculated to present an image of continuity and experience - and to cope with the government's electoral failures in the West.

Here is the full list of cabinet ministers sworn today at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

The full list of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet being sworn in Nov. 20 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

Most notable is the shift of Freeland from foreign affairs to the post of deputy prime minister.

Marc Miller will be a new face at the Liberal cabinet table, joining the inner circle as Indigenous services minister, CBC-Radio-Canada has learned.

Canada's most powerful cabinet minister says she will work to bring Canadians together at a time of profound global challenges and deep divisions at home over economic disparity.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his new cabinet today, bringing seven new faces to the table and tweaking the machinery of government to tackle western alienation and Liberal policy priorities such as fighting climate change, boosting the middle class and Indigenous reconciliation.

Here are some questions about Sondland and his importance to the impeachment inquiry.

Twitter pledged to take "decisive corrective action'' against similar strategies in the future.

The hearing will begin with testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland.

The hearing will begin with testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland.

The hearing will begin with testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce who will sit around his cabinet table on Wednesday afternoon.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil his new cabinet today — an expanded team of ministers to steer the minority Liberal government's legislative priorities and work to calm regional tensions.

Democrats and Republicans are using the not-yet-ratified Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement as a messaging weapon in their battle over impeachment. Hanging in the balance: a deal involving three-quarters of Canada's exports.

Thriving black markets mean kids have easy access to pot. Governments could do more to squeeze out the crooks.

"The allegations against Vice-President Biden are self-serving and non-credible,'' declared former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Broader corruption in Ukraine was "plausible,'' but corruption by Biden wasn't, he said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to travel to London next month where recent comments by French President Emmanuel Macron questioning the viability of the alliance threaten to overshadow a celebration of NATO's 70th birthday.

The two politicians hammered away at their rival's weaknesses and sidestepped tricky questions about their own policies in the hourlong encounter, which was the first-ever head-to-head TV debate between a British prime minister and a chief challenger.

Canada has reversed its recent voting history at the UN in an annual vote on Palestinians' right to self-determination, switching from a No to a Yes - one day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the U.S. no longer considers Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories to be illegal.

Political analysts are calling the Alberta government's bluff after it announced on Monday it was firing the election commissioner.

Premier Blaine Higgs said he's hoping for a decision soon but knows the new federal cabinet has to be in place first.

Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair's work for a pro-homeopathy advocacy group is raising eyebrows among critics who denounce the field as pseudoscience.

Recent polls suggest division between the priorities of the East and West along with deepening political tensions.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer isn't on a list of ex-U.S. citizens published last week, and the party won't say whether he's renounced his U.S. citizenship.

A look at some of the remarks in the second round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee and Trump’s response.