Apr 8 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Alberta’s rural-urban divide has become a deeper problem for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, as the province enters the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Kenney announced another round of restrictions, saying it was his job to “make tough choices,” and taking the province back to strict rules that were in place in […]
Apr 8 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — In a reversal of earlier pandemic trends, Canada is on the verge of matching — perhaps surpassing — the United States in the number of COVID-19 cases relative to its population. Updated data compiled from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dataset shows that the United States sits at roughly 196 COVID-19 cases per one million […]
Mar 15 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — The Alberta government is allowing people to decide whether they get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine or wait instead for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines if they have efficacy or ethical concerns. It’s a move that puts Alberta out of step with decisions made in some other provinces, all of which are trying to administer a […]
Mar 12 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — Six months after WE Charity announced it would sell off its Canadian assets to create an endowment fund for its humanitarian programs abroad, more than $40 million in Toronto real estate remains with the charity organization. Last September, after months of being at the centre of a major government controversy over the outsourcing of a […]
Mar 6 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — Conservative members of parliamentary committees scrutinizing the WE Charity scandal have warned the Kielburger brothers — the organization’s co-founders — they could be forced to testify and potentially face legal consequences if they refuse to attend. The WE founders have declined requests to testify before two House of Commons committees.
Feb 16 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — A return to Canada from travels abroad could land you in one of the federal government’s isolation hotels, dystopian-looking places sheathed in plastic, with meals delivered to your door and only minutes of fresh air per day. There has been ongoing confusion around the rules at Canada’s airports since the beginning of the pandemic. Who […]
Feb 4 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — Executives managing the federal government’s pay service for public servants, which has been plagued with problems for years, received nearly $2 million in bonuses and performance pay over the past five years, according to a government document. The Phoenix pay system, launched in 2016 under Stephen Harper’s government, was troubled from the start. While many […]
Jan 28 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — The federal government paid more than 300,000 teenagers, many of them high schoolers, nearly $636 million in benefits over the course of the CERB program, according to documents from the Canada Revenue Agency. The documents, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, an Ottawa online news outlet, show that thousands of teenagers between the ages of 15 and […]
Jan 11 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Eighteen years ago, Robert Bolden needed $2,000 to pay his rent. He convinced two other men to help him rob a Bank of America branch in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dec 22 2020 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Independence advocates Sikhs for Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa-based think tank, and Terry Milewski, a former CBC reporter, alleging “an untrue and misleading report” Milewski authored for the policy group on Khalistan has damaged the reputation of the Sikh organization. Sikhs for Justice describes itself as a non-profit that […]
Dec 10 2020 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — After weeks of slowly ratcheting up rules to try to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, Alberta has introduced a four-week quasi-lockdown, a move that came after internal and external pressure which was — at least until it became too late to do any differently — fairly heavily resisted by the province’s leaders. “It’s no […]
Nov 2 2020 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — Alberta’s New Democrats will be calling on members of the provincial legislature on Monday to condemn Western separatism. Albertans deserve to know where their representatives stand on independence, says Rod Loyola, the NDP MLA for Edmonton-Ellerslie, who is behind the motion. The NDP, he says, firmly opposes separation.
Oct 29 2020 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — A conservative legal group is challenging new restrictions on gatherings in Alberta, saying they are a violation of Charter rights to assembly. The province implemented the group gathering restrictions this week as it faces record-breaking numbers of new COVID-19 cases. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, headed by lawyer John Carpay, has been involved in […]
Aug 10 2020 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — A U.S. court has issued a summons for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a lawsuit from a former Saudi intelligence official now living in Canada who claims bin Salman attempted to assinate him with a hit squad sent to Canada in October 2018. On Friday, the United States District Court for the District […]
Jul 10 2020 — Tyler Dawson — National Newswatch — A 2017 ad from WE Charity that appears to promote Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government is being highlighted by critics this week as Trudeau faces an ethics investigation over handing a $900-million sole-source contract to the group, which has paid members of his family hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees. […]