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New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh unfurled a blueprint for the NDP campaign platform on Thursday, August 12, 2021, doubling down on affordability and economic populism as federal opposition leaders criss-cross the country ahead of an election race expected to kick off Sunday.

The federal opposition parties are already off and running as each leader aims to jump the gun on an election race expected to kick off in the coming days.

For the second week in a row, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a stage with Premier Francois Legault on Monday, March 22, 2021, as they made a joint funding announcement aimed at improving access to high-speed internet in Quebec.

The Trudeau government officially launched a previously announced fund on Monday, November 9, 2020, that promises to provide $1.75 billion for rural and remote parts of Canada that currently don't have fast, reliable internet service.

The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic jobs.

The federal government has released its long-awaited policy on developing the Canadian Arctic in a changing environmental and political world.

Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde.

The federal government is investing $85 million into an advanced satellite technology designed to expand access to affordable, high-speed internet across Canada's rural and remote regions.

Ottawa is creating conditions for the telecom giant Huawei to create a monopoly on high-speed internet in Canada's Far North, leaving its residents vulnerable to Beijing's will, says a leading analyst.

A proposed transmission line across western Maine that would serve as a conduit for Canadian hydropower is "in the best interest" of state electricity customers thanks to incentives negotiated with Central Maine Power, the state's public advocate said on Thursday, March 7, 2019.