Liberal leadership candidate Karina Gould said Thursday that, in a race dominated by two heavyweight candidates, she's trying to stand out from the pack with her ideas.

The Liberal Party of Canada is declining to say why Ottawa MP Chandra Arya was disqualified from its leadership race.

OTTAWA - One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.

Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says her top rival Mark Carney appears to be “the choice of the Liberal establishment” as more federal cabinet ministers rally around the former Bank of Canada governor.

Arya’s exit from the race leaves six candidates: former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, former banker Mark Carney, House Leader Karina Gould, Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste and former MPs Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla. The party will announce the winner of the race on March 9.

The uncertainty caused by Donald Trump’s young second presidency is garnering a lot of Canadian attention, and it deserves to. But the effects of politics closer to home are also important and shouldn’t be lost or forgotten in the headlines of the coming year.

The Big Story podcast takes a look at the federal Liberal leadership race thus far, including the endorsement battle and the Trump effect.

The six candidates running for Liberal leadership have now all registered with Elections Canada, which monitors their fundraising activities as political leadership contestants under the law.

Six of the seven Liberal leadership candidates who submitted their nomination papers have now been approved by the party to run in the race to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Liberal lawmakers defended their endorsements of candidates to replace outgoing leader Justin Trudeau on Thursday, after the deadline for joining the race passed.

Here's a look at the Liberal leadership race and where the candidates stand on First Nation, Inuit and Métis policies.

The next Liberal Party leader remains unknown. Earlier this week, rumours circulated in Ottawa that the Trudeau government is preparing a major tariff response plan—similar in scale to pandemic measures—should the United States follow through on its threat to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian exports.