It’s day two of the Liberal Party Convention in Montreal and the energy remains high. Here’s the news:

iPolitics caught up with three progressive Liberal MPs to ask whether new member Marilyn Gladu’s decision to cross the floor is a testament to Mark Carney’s personal appeal or a sign the party is compromising on its core values.

At the Liberal convention on Montreal on Friday, Ontario MP Karina Gould said Gladu knows the party’s values and decided to join the caucus “because she either share those values now or at the very least, respects those values and the rights that Canadians and Liberal members have fought so hard for over the years.”

Asked by iPolitics if she felt that progressives like herself had a place in the party, she said the Liberals have “always been a big tent party.”

“You can just go back in history. We’ve typically gone back and forth between a more centre right and a more centre left leader. Like that’s just been the way that it’s gone,” she said.

“And I think that’s what gets the balance right for the party and for my perspective, what being a Liberal is. It’s about being an excellent economic steward, while also building the social infrastructure of this country. And it means that we can take care of the most vulnerable.”

Find out more from Marco Vigliotti. 

Also, former interim NDP leader Don Davies will continue to act as the party’s parliamentary leader in the House of Commons while new leader Avi Lewis remains outside of Parliament.

The House of Commons resumes sitting Monday for the first time since Lewis won the NDP leadership on March 29 and he announced the new critic roles for his caucus in a news release today.

The list includes appointing his former leadership rival Alberta MP Heather McPherson as the party’s House leader and foreign affairs critic and Vancouver NDP MP Jenny Kwan as caucus chair.

The release also says despite not having a seat, Lewis himself will act as the party’s critic for intergovernmental affairs and the cost of living, which is a new role.

Lewis is expected to be in Ottawa on Monday to announce a suite of policy proposals on affordability, with a focus on groceries.

The Canadian Press has more. 

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Premier Doug Ford has spent the first months of 2026 making a series of politically risky decisions.

Now, this shift is beginning to show up in the numbers.

An Abacus Data poll puts Ford’s Progressive Conservatives at 39 per cent, down five points in a month and their lowest level of support in nearly two years. At the same time, 51 per cent of Ontarians now say it’s time for a change in government, an uptick that suggests soft support is also fading.

At the centre of that slide is a growing perception that Ford is moving away from the political identity that once defined him: accessible, responsive, and anti-establishment.

Instead, critics say, he is consolidating power.

Our own Queen’s Park reporter Barbara Patrocinio has more.

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Internationally

Google the price of oil, and you’ll most likely find two widely quoted prices for the commodity, one in the United States, the other in Europe.

These prices, which are constantly changing on electronic markets, suggest that although the war with Iran has made energy a lot more expensive, things are not nearly as bad as they were four years ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine.

But if you needed an actual tanker full of oil — and quickly — it would cost you dearly.

On Tuesday, before President Trump said the United States and Iran had reached a cease-fire agreement, a commonly cited price of Brent oil, the European one, was about $109 a barrel. That was well below highs reached in 2022, when that price briefly topped $130, without adjusting for inflation.

But in the market where energy companies buy and sell liquid oil transported on ships, the price was almost $145 a barrel, a record and more than double the price before the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, according to Argus Media, a company that tracks commodity prices.

The New York Times has more. 

Elsewhere, JD Vance has warned Iran not to “try and play” the US at talks planned for Saturday in Islamabad, while Tehran said it would not take part until Israel stopped bombing of Lebanon.

The US vice-president made the comments as he boarded a plane to Pakistan for negotiations that could determine whether a ceasefire holds or the war on Iran resumes with grave implications for the global economy.

With hours to go before the talks were scheduled to start, doubts remained as to whether they actually would.

Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and the co-leader of the country’s delegation, said on X on Friday: “Two of the measures mutually agreed upon between the parties have yet to be implemented: a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of Iran’s blocked assets prior to the commencement of negotiations. These two matters must be fulfilled before negotiations begin.”

Read more from The Guardian. 

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The Kicker

The Liberal Party Convention wrapped up its second day, members are still buzzing with excitement.

Aside from the usual suspects one can find at a convention, iPolitics saw some other interesting names including Bonnie Crombie, former mayor of Mississauga and ex-Ontario Liberal leader, making the rounds, and Christy Clark, who was gunning for the Liberal Party leader last year but was forced to abandon her bid after a disastrous interview with CBC in which she contradicted herself whether she was ever a member of the Conservative party…

We’ll be back with more updates on the convention tomorrow. Have a great evening!