Aug 16 2018 — CBC — A hefty unpaid bill from the RCMP is highlighting once again the dysfunction inside a troubled security force created in 2015 to protect Parliament Hill and its politicians from armed attackers. The Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) is an uneasy amalgamation of an RCMP unit and the two security forces formerly responsible for separately protecting the […]
Aug 15 2018 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Maxime Bernier received an official rebuke from his boss, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, and a broadside from a Pakistani-Canadian Conservative senator today as the party moved to distance itself from the former leadership contender’s opinions on multiculturalism on the eve of its national convention. Scheer pointed out in a statement issued this evening that […]
Aug 15 2018 — CBC — Montreal has laid out plans to push for a federal ban on handguns, citing four instances of gun violence that traumatized Quebecers over the past 30 years. The motion, which will be debated at city hall next Monday, says Montreal needs to demand Ottawa ramp up the restrictions in its Bill C-71, tabled last March, […]
Aug 15 2018 — CBC — Asked if he’s concerned that selling weapons to Ukraine would escalate the conflict in that country, the owner of a Canadian arms company said: “It may sound callous, but not particularly.” “Since the dawn of time, mankind has been engaged in war, and part of that is equipping yourself properly,” Ross Spagrud, owner of PGW […]
Aug 15 2018 — Neil Macdonald — CBC — Here’s a proposed Canadian reply to the escalating Saudi temper tantrum. Call in the kingdom’s ambassador and tell him: Sorry, Mr. Ambassador, but Canadian universities will never again accept Saudi medical residents. The government could explain that cancelling orders for relatively piddling amounts of wheat and maple syrup is the kingdom’s perfect right, subject of […]
Aug 15 2018 — Peter Zimonjic and Vassy Kapelos — CBC — Quebec’s leading trade negotiator on the NAFTA file says he’s not remotely worried by the fact that the U.S. and Mexico are talking trade without Canada. Raymond Bachand, a former Quebec provincial finance minister and the province’s NAFTA negotiator, made the comments in an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Tuesday. “I’m […]
Aug 15 2018 — Murray Brewster — CBC — The federal government has been quietly debating a “refresh” of its marquee — but troubled — national shipbuilding strategy, federal documents reveal. A memorandum to the deputy minister of Finance, obtained by CBC News under access to information legislation, notes there was “tangible progress” in ship construction last year, but also references impending productions gaps […]
Aug 15 2018 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Fresh off his announcement that he would be running in an upcoming byelection in British Columbia, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is spending the week on the other side of the country in an attempt to renew some of his party’s fraying links with Quebec voters. With a tour of four ridings in the Montérégie region […]
Aug 15 2018 — Evan Dyer — CBC — The Trudeau government has been bringing up the case of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi privately at high levels with Saudi Arabian officials since its first weeks in power, documents obtained by CBC News show. A confidential 2015 memo to then-minister of foreign affairs Stéphane Dion was drawn up by officials in his department to […]
Aug 14 2018 — CBC — A once high-profile Liberal MP from Mississauga has resurfaced in a Hamilton city council race. Eve Adams, who famously crossed the floor to the Liberals after a Tory nomination controversy, is running in Ward 8 on the west Mountain. Adams said Hamilton is her hometown. She moved to Ancaster fro
Aug 14 2018 — CBC — Students at Trinity Western University will no longer have to sign an agreement promising to abstain from all sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The board of governors for the evangelical Christian university in Langley, B.C., voted last week to drop the mandatory requirement that students adhere to what the school calls its community covenant. The […]
Aug 14 2018 — Janyce McGregor — CBC — Bill Morneau is preparing to use emergency safeguard measures for the first time to respond to the risk of a surge of cheap foreign steel imports. The finance minister launched a 15-day public consultation process Tuesday for seven steel products the minister said had seen recent increases in imports:
Aug 14 2018 — Robyn Urback — CBC — A member of the news media was assaulted by a protester in Toronto this past weekend. The altercation happened on camera, in front of police, with dozens of people standing by. The incident in which a journalist was struck by an activist — ironically, at an anti-hate rally — seemed entirely unprovoked: a pathetic attack […]
Aug 14 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — The Canadian government is talking to the U.S. government about the impact a retroactive tax signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump is having north of the border, Finance Minister Bill Morneau revealed Monday. Speaking to reporters in Windsor, Ontario, Morneau said he is aware that some of the U.S. government’s tax changes affect […]
Aug 13 2018 — CBC — The federal task force managing the government’s response to the spike in the number of migrants crossing the border into Canada illegally is getting a new leader. Transport Minister Marc Garneau and the head of the ad-hoc intergovernmental task force on irregular migration is being replaced by Dominic LeBlanc, a government official told Radio-Canada on […]