Aug 19 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has vowed that if his party is re-elected, legislation outlawing LGBTQ2S+ conversion therapy will be a priority, but didn’t say how quickly into a new Parliament a Liberal government would re-table the bill. The Conservatives and NDP have also committed to ban the practice, if elected. After initially dodging a question […]
Aug 16 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Amid an “extraordinarily dire situation” on the ground in Afghanistan, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Monday that the government is committing to resettle thousands of Afghans “in the coming weeks.” Speaking at an election stop in Quebec, Trudeau said that as of Monday at least 807 Afghans have been evacuated and 500 have arrived in […]
Aug 15 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Justin Trudeau has set in motion an early federal election, sending voters to the polls on Sept. 20 and setting up his re-election bid as a chance for Canadians to have their voices heard about who they want to lead the country at this pivotal moment in the pandemic. The prime minister and Liberal leader […]
Aug 3 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Behind the scenes, federal political parties are finalizing campaign plans in anticipation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling an election this month. But, with the latest national modelling warning that the country may be on the verge of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, Canadians and the opposition parties are expressing concerns about hitting the […]
Jul 12 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Canadian officials and doctors are defending sanctioning the mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines, after the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist issued a new caution about citizens opting to receive vaccines from different manufacturers, saying that the data remains limited on the practice. On Monday, WHO Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that the global health […]
Jul 10 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — A majority of Canadians are in favour of lifting all pandemic-prompted travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border this year, according to a new survey from Nanos Research. As conversations continue about when the federal government will lift certain border measures like mandatory testing, quarantines, and limits on who can cross into Canada for non-essential reasons, […]
Jul 8 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Canada is “within reach” of fully vaccinating 80 per cent of those currently eligible against COVID-19 if momentum is kept up, but federal public health officials are cautioning that uptake is starting to slow. As of midday Thursday, more than 41 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Canada, seeing more than 26 […]
Jul 8 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Independent MP and former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has announced that she will not be running in the next federal election, citing how in her view, Ottawa has become “toxic and ineffective.” In a statement posted online Thursday morning, Wilson-Raybould said that while it was not a quick or easy decision to make, she […]
Jul 7 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau call an election this summer, the issue that will have the most influence in the minds of voters will be the economy, according to a new survey by Nanos Research. More than 28 per cent of those surveyed said that the economy would be most important policy issue that will […]
Jun 30 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Debuting a freshly-shaven face for the first time in many months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau downplayed suggestions Wednesday that he’s gearing up to call a federal election despite a ramp-up in post-Parliament political posturing. The Senate adjourned for the summer leaving two key Liberal bills unpassed on Tuesday: a bill to stamp out the harmful […]
Jun 25 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — New modelling being released Friday will show a “quite encouraging” picture of the pandemic’s trajectory in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. In his COVID-19 update from Rideau Cottage, the prime minister offered the topline summary of what Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam will present this afternoon. “Over the past 15 months […]
Jun 25 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The RCMP’s national security team in Ottawa has arrested and laid more than two dozen “terrorist hoax and uttering threat” charges against an Ontario man who they allege sent “suspicious letters” to federal and provincial government offices. The RCMP allege that on April 29, a staff member at a government office in Ottawa opened an […]
Jun 24 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that the hurt and trauma being felt by Indigenous people as a result of the Cowessess First Nation announcing the discovery of an estimated 751 unmarked graves near the former Marieval residential school in Saskatchewan is “Canada’s responsibility to bear.” In a statement, Trudeau said that his heart is broken […]
Jun 24 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett has admitted to, and apologized for, sending Independent MP and former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson Raybould a text message that Wilson-Raybould called “racist” and “misogynist.” Wilson-Raybould said that while she was “floored” by the message, to her it was “indicative of a pattern of behaviour” she says she experienced […]
Jun 18 2021 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now says that, by the end of July, Canada will have received “over 68 million” doses of COVID-19 vaccines, increasing the number of Canadians who will be able to receive their second doses earlier than expected. Trudeau said Procurement Minister Anita Anand will be outlining the specifics of the coming deliveries […]