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Prime Minister Mark Carney's first Senate appointments include one of his most senior advisers and a Conservative MP as he pushes to restore some partisan voices to an upper house that has been largely devoid of them for the last decade. The move is already sending shockwaves through the Senate chamber as Carney signals he's taking a step back from former prime minister Justin Trudeau's decade-long experiment of stacking the Red Chamber with almost exclusively nonpartisan figures. Tom Pitfield, who served on Carney's 2025 campaign team and then became a principal secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, is one of the new appointees.

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LONDON: A British lawmaker was on Wednesday set to return to the UK parliament for the first time since both his hands and feet were amputated after he contracted sepsis.Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay was rushed to hospital in September last year and spent 16 days in an induced coma before undergoing a quadruple amputation in December.The 57-year-old father-of-one told the BBC that his whole…

LONDON: An Indian-origin Conservative MP with roots in Goa and Pune has been catapulted to the high-ranking position of energy and net zero secretary, landing her first Cabinet role and becoming its youngest member at age 38.UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appointed key ally Claire Coutinho as secretary of state for energy security and net zero on Thursday after defence secretary Ben Wallace…

Robert Halfon: ‘Govt looks like libertarian jihadists treating country as lab mice’

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Conservatives Propose Motions to Ban Huawei From 5G, Sanction Officials Restricting Hong Kong Freedoms

The Conservatives are proposing motions to sanction officials responsible for the imposition of Beijing’s national security law on Hong Kong, and to ban Huawei from Canada’s 5G networks.

The proposed motion on Hong Kong, put forth by the Conservative’s shadow minister for foreign affairs Michael Chong, asks for the House of Commonsto recognize the national security law as a violation of the 1984…

Why Boosting your Media Profile While Ignoring Your Opposition Helps Win Elections

The biggest area in which political elections are fought has to be the media. There is plenty of evidence for this. Not least, which party wins elections most often in relation to how much they spend on appearing in the press.

Margaret Thatcher was very unpopular as a result of her policies, which caused a huge increase in unemployment during the 1980s. However, with the well-documented advent of…