It’s Tuesday, April 14. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

Carney singled out House of Commons committees while speaking about how he plans to wield his newfound majority government. He suggested that he aims to give the Liberals a majority in committees to reduce opposition’s ability to delay or amend government legislation.

Monday’s federal Liberal win in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne “could reshape politics in both Quebec and Ottawa,” Kheiriddin writes. She argues it could lead to some Conservative MPs in the province “either defecting to the Liberals or simply leaving caucus and sitting as independents.”

The former university professor who is among those skeptical of claims of existence of Indigenous unmarked graves is arguing in court that the university restricted her right to free speech when it cancelled her talk in 2023.

“The message of putting it back up is that we will not cower and we will not ever succumb to darkness,” Meir Dubrawsky said. A video shows a man pulling the menorah to the ground during the day on Friday. It wasn’t the first time the centre has been attacked amid a wave of antisemitic acts in the city.

The paradox of Carney’s talk of Canada needing to rethink its dependence on the U.S. is that “half of Carney’s children live in the U.S. His wife was recently working for a U.S. company. Almost all of his multi-million dollar portfolio is in U.S. assets,” Tristin Hopper argues. “And one of his last acts before entering politics was to help move one of Canada’s largest corporations to a new home on U.S. soil.”