Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party. On September 16th the prime minister’s party lost a by-election in his hometown of Montreal, an area that it had represented almost uninterruptedly since the second world war.

An early Canadian election is more likely now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost the support of the opposition New Democratic Party that was helping keep him in power, the party's leader said on Thursday.

Trudeau will need support from other legislators to survive a confidence vote in the House of Commons and quickly found it from Yves-Francois Blanchet, leader of the separatist Bl

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will likely face a vote of non-confidence next week in Canada’s parliament, but it appears he’ll survive it after an opposition party rejected the idea of forcing an election now.

The party of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently lost the byelection in Montreal, a safe seat. Seen together with the defeat in Toronto, another Liberal Party fortress, in July, and his plunging approval ratings,

This loss marks the second significant defeat for Trudeau, who has been in office since 2015, after a Conservative party candidate's won a by-election in Toronto in June

OTTAWA—Fresh off a stinging byelection loss in a longtime Liberal bastion in Montreal, the party’s veteran Quebec lieutenant is leaving to run for the party’s provincial leadership. The move by Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez will leave a hole in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet — and likely lead to another cabinet shuffle just two months after another minister Seamus O’Regan left — and comes as the Liberal minority government enters a vulnerable stretch in which it will need the support of an opposition party to avoid triggering a federal election.