Apr 22 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Omar Khadr says he realizes life after his controversial war crime conviction — always a lightning rod among the Canadian public — will likely never be “ordinary.” But that isn’t going to stop him from trying to get as close to it as possible. In an interview with the French-language current affairs program Tout le […]
Apr 21 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Despite extending a deadline for deciding on next steps for the Trans Mountain pipeline, Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canadians should still be assured the issue is the “number one priority” for the government.
Apr 21 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — A baker’s dozen worth of NDP MPs have said over the past year that they will not run again in the fall election. But NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he isn’t worried about whether that could be a reflection on his leadership style.
Apr 14 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Organized Crime and Border Security Minister Bill Blair says he thinks cannabis users sticking with the grey market can still be converted to buying legally. That comes on the heels of a survey from Statistics Canada last week that shows a slight majority (54 per cent) of Canadians who use cannabis are still getting their […]
Apr 14 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The Alberta election is just two days away and after residents flocked to the advance polls in unprecedented numbers last week, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney says he is feeling confident about what’s to come.
Apr 7 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould rejects the idea that by raising concerns about the SNC-Lavalin scandal, she may have helped boost Conservative prospects in the fall election campaign. In an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, the now-independent MP for Vancouver-Granville said that while she understands concerns from her former caucus about how the […]
Apr 6 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Leaks of confidential judicial information and a smear campaign against her by unnamed government sources in recent weeks are running afoul of the same principals of confidentiality former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould says she is still vowing to honour. But she predicts that rather than discourage young Indigenous women from entering politics, the smears and […]
Apr 3 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould is defending the secret recording of Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick that appears to have tipped the scales in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to eject her from caucus. On Tuesday night, Trudeau said the secret recording of the phone call, which Wilson-Raybould had described as one in […]
Apr 3 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Each of the 338 seats in the House of Commons has — for a little while, at least — been filled by a young woman. The Daughters of the Vote are in Ottawa today to learn about the challenges that a life in politics entails in a bid to get more women to run for […]
Apr 2 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould warned Gerald Butts, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that there would be Indigenous anger across the country if she was removed from the post. A series of text messages between Wilson-Raybould and Butts in the days after she was told of the plan to shuffle her out […]
Apr 1 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould is not backing down, hinting that if Liberal caucus members want her gone, they will have to do it themselves. Wilson-Raybould spoke briefly with Global News on her way into question period on Monday, where the Opposition hammered the government over the allegations of attempted political interference at the heart […]
Mar 31 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The mounting political pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is showing his true colours for Canadians, one prominent Indigenous leader says. In an interview with the West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said the allegations of attempted political interference at the heart of the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the resulting outcry over the affair […]
Mar 29 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Jody Wilson-Raybould warned former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick repeatedly during a December 2018 phone call about the perception of political interference if she overrode the federal prosecutor to offer SNC-Lavalin a deal to avoid criminal trial.
Mar 27 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The House of Commons justice committee that shut down its probe into the SNC-Lavalin scandal last week has now received the additional information former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould vowed to share following its refusal to hear from her a second time. Anthony Housefather, Liberal chair of the committee, confirmed in an email to Global News […]
Mar 24 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Finance Minister Bill Morneau is pushing back at concerns from business groups that his most recent federal budget “failed to address the fundamental issues” facing Canadian companies.