Taylor Macpherson

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OTTAWA — A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to act swiftly to implement key Liberal election commitments on firearms. In a letter to Carney, PolySeSouvient says the mandate letter for the next public safety minister should include a commitment to “timely delivery” of promised reforms, especially the buyback of banned firearms.

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OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says that if the new Liberal government doesn’t introduce legislation on access to clean drinking water within 100 days, the problem won’t be fixed soon. The Liberals under then-prime minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation that would have guaranteed the right to clean drinking water — but it failed to become law before Parliament was prorogued.

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ST. JOHN’S — A judicial recount is underway in a rural Newfoundland riding where the Liberals finished with a 12-vote lead. The recount in the Terra Nova—The Peninsulas riding in central Newfoundland is one of four that Elections Canada ordered after last month’s federal election. Three of those recounts were automatically triggered because the winning margin was less than one one-thousandth of the valid votes cast in the riding.

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Murray Wood says a lot of Canadians didn’t seem to warm up to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party, and chose Liberal Mark Carney instead. Wood says the Conservatives need to hope that Carney stumbles or start appealing to voters outside of their own base if they want to form government any time soon. Murray Wood delivers sharp, insightful commentary with a blend of wit, skepticism and straight talk.

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Statistics Canada says preliminary figures for April continue to point to a sharp drop in return trips from the United States by Canadian residents. The agency says the number of Canadian-residents returning by automobile from the United States in April fell on a year-over-year basis for the fourth consecutive month as it dropped 35.2 per cent to 1.2 million.