Justin Trudeau’s national popularity plummeted long before he started losing his grip on the Liberal Party. The housing crisis, rampant inflation, parts of his government’s pandemic response, and dissatisfaction with progressive policies around immigration and other issues alienated many Canadians over time.

People in Western Canada, a longtime fortress of resistance to many of Justin Trudeau’s policies, weigh in on the Prime Minister’s resignation announcement.

Officials around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are increasingly worried that the U.S. president-elect's mind is made up, and that he will make good on his threat to impose a 25 per cent levy on all Canadian imports the day he takes office.

At the Prime Minister’s riding office, in a large building facing the Metropolitan Highway in Montreal, someone removed the word “Honourable” from the French version of “The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau” – leaving an odd blank in the sign adorning the door.

No one answered at the office on Monday, shortly after Mr. Trudeau announced outside his Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa that he will resign as Prime Minister and Liberal Leader once his party determines a successor.

With Justin Trudeau on the way out, Parliament has been prorogued until March 24. As Jon Hernandez reports, the move has been used by past governments during times of political crisis.

The lone Manitoba Liberal MP who called for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign said the prorogation of parliament and the coming party leadership race will give the unpopular Liberals a chance to reconnect with Canadian voters.

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people.

The official Xinhua News Agency said that 38 others have been injured, citing the regional disaster relief headquarters.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.1 earthquake was centered in the Tibet region at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles). China recorded the magnitude as 6.8.

The epicenter was located where the India and Eurasia plates clash and cause uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks.

The average altitude in the area around the epicenter is about 4,200 meters (13,800 feet), according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

CCTV said there were a handful of communities within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the epicenter, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet and about 23 kilometers (14 miles) from the region’s second-largest city of Xigaze.

In Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, the earthquake sent residents running out of their homes after they were woken up by the tremor. No information was immediately available from the remote, mountainous areas closer to the epicenter across the border.

There have been 10 earthquakes of at least magnitude 6 in the area where Tuesday’s quake hit over the past century, the USGS said.

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After months of pressure, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will resign once the Liberals select a new leader. The National’s At Issue panel breaks down the historic day in Canadian politics, what it means for the federal parties and what happens next.

Rental prices in Toronto are dropping with condos and apartments going for hundreds of dollars less than they were a year ago, according to real estate experts.