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Feodore Snagovsky, political scientist at the University of Alberta, joined Global News Morning Edmonton to offer his perspective on the Oct. 19 referendum and the separatists movement in Alberta, noting there are parallels to Brexit in the UK and how a decade later, that situation is still not settled.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Alberta separatists against using the threat of secession as leverage in future negotiations, calling it a “dangerous bluff.”

Growing up can be hard to do, so many questions and expectations to weed through. This book, a memoir-in-letters, takes a look at identity and the coming of age. Authors, Claire Sicherman and Nicole Breit have collaborated one letter at a time to bring us “Bloom: Letters on Girlhood”. Jennifer Palma has more on “Palma’s...

King Charles welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to Britain on Tuesday in the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit. The pair took a horse-drawn carriage procession through Windsor castle alongside their wives Brigitte and Queen Camilla as well as Prince William, and his wife Princess Catherine.

Mark Carney prevailed over the other three Liberal leadership candidates in Ottawa Sunday and was elected as the party leader and successor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But who is Carney? David Akin gives us a rundown of the economist’s rich professional background – including his time as the governor of Canada’s central bank and...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at Downing Street on Wednesday, hours after she told the UK it would be “basically impossible” to negotiate all aspects of its departure from the EU by the end of 2020.

Britain’s House of Commons approved legislation on Thursday which would allow the country to leave the European Union on Jan. 31 with an exit deal. Lawmakers voted by 330-231 to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

With Britain being our country’s closest trading partner in Europe, many Canadian business owners have been closely following the U.K. election. As Jeff Semple reports, they’re bracing for the fallout Brexit could bring.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and to break the Brexit gridlock. During his victory speech on Friday, he declared that “any threat of a second referendum has ended” and that “getting Brexit done” was now an unarguable decision.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that the European Union (EU) is not willing to consider a Canada-style trade agreement with the U.K. as EU leaders say Brexit talks “are over” during the second day of EU Summit in Belgium. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada gets...

Lawmakers who are seeking to block a no-deal Brexit are making it more likely that Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Aug. 30.

French Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin visited a customs checks facility in Calais on Aug. 30 with British minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of coordinating a “no-deal” Brexit planning, as France readies to test run customs measures in the scenario of a hard Brexit.

Lawmakers will decide on Sept. 3 whether to move Britain one step closer to an early election when they vote on the first stage of their plan to block Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing a no-deal Brexit.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that the U.K. is going to present “a reasonable ask” to the European Union regarding a Brexit deal, which is backed up by the commitment to leave the EU by Oct. 31.

The Conservative party no longer has a majority in U.K. parliament after an MP defected, hours before a major Brexit vote in the House of Commons.

Anti-Brexit protesters marched to the gates of Britain’s parliament in central London on Sept. 3 as lawmakers faced a fierce debate on preventing a no-deal exit from the EU. Protesters shouted, “Stop Brexit,” through parliament’s gates only hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his working majority when one of his Conservative lawmakers defected...

The U.K. could be headed for an election as the high stakes political chess over Brexit seemingly enters its endgame.

There was more chaos in British parliament on Monday, as the controversial House Speaker John Bercow announced he plans to step down by October 31. That’s the day Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised the UK will leave the European Union, deal or no deal. But a new bill, aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit,...

British lawmakers who do not support the government’s planned timetable to pass legislation to ratify its Brexit deal will be voting not to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, the leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Monday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a briefing following an EU summit meeting in which European leaders unanimously endorsed the new Brexit deal, formally sending it to the British Parliament for ratification.​