Global National: Sept. 17, 2024 | Trudeau government could face confidence vote next week
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been defeated in two byelections. The longtime Liberal riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun in Montreal was lost to the Bloc Québécois, while the NDP kept the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood-Transcona. Mackenzie Gray explains why this still might not be enough to trigger an early election, and Mercedes Stephenson reports on how the Liberals are now effectively giving the Opposition a chance to defeat the government.
Plus, cameras were rolling when NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had a tense confrontation with protesters from a group called Canadian Free Living. As Mercedes Stephenson explains, Singh went face-to-face with demonstrators after someone called him a “corrupted bastard.”
After two years of interest rate hikes, inflation hit the Bank of Canada’s target of two per cent back in August. Touria Izri looks at what helped cool inflation, and the interest rates that economists are calling for.
After winning the leadership of Alberta’s United Conservative Party in October 2022, Premier Danielle Smith is back to campaigning to the party faithful because her leadership goes under review November 2nd. And as Heather Yourex-West reports, Smith has been discussing some controversial policy plans.
At least nine people are dead and 3,000 others have been injured after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon in a sophisticated attack. Redmond Shannon explains why Israel is being blamed, and how the attack may have been pulled off.
And finally, New York prosecutors allege that for more than a decade, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs abused and threatened women and others around him. Jackson Proskow reports on the litany of lurid accusations against Combs, and how experts say this will be a difficult case for him to fight.
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