Jan 22 2021 — CBC — Trudeau raised disappointment with decision to kill Keystone XL project, didn’t threaten sanctions. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden by phone Friday — the first opportunity for the two leaders to chart a fresh course for the Canada-U.S. relationship after four tumultuous years with Donald Trump. The 30-minute phone […]
Jan 22 2021 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the CEO of Pfizer has personally assured him that the pharmaceutical company will send vaccine shots to Canada next month. The promise from Dr. Albert Bourla, the company’s top executive, comes after Canada learned it wouldn’t receive a single vial of the highly effective vaccine next week, as Pfizer pauses […]
Jan 22 2021 — CBC — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is repeating his calls for economic retaliation for the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, or at least some compensation for TC Energy and the province for the loss of billions of dollars. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Kenney accuses Justin Trudeau of failing to advocate for the project. […]
Jan 22 2021 — CBC — A lawsuit launched against the Trudeau government by the former ambassador to Israel has reached a settlement — but neither party is willing to divulge the details. The federal government is refusing even to disclose the date the settlement was reached. Vivian Bercovici was named ambassador to Israel by Stephen Harper before Prime Minister Justin […]
Jan 22 2021 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Booted from the Conservative caucus on Wednesday, Derek Sloan now sits as an Independent MP in the House of Commons. Without the backing of the Conservative Party of Canada, his chances of holding on to his seat in the next election don’t look good. Sloan, who finished fourth in last year’s Conservative leadership contest with […]
Jan 22 2021 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — Julie Payette might still want to debate the details of what exactly occurred inside Rideau Hall over the last three and a half years. But she apparently couldn’t escape an increasingly obvious conclusion — that for her to continue as governor general would risk inflicting serious damage on the office. “I am a strong believer […]
Jan 21 2021 — Ashley Burke — CBC — Gov.-Gen. Julie Payette and her secretary, Assunta di Lorenzo, are resigning after an outside workplace review of Rideau Hall found that the pair presided over a toxic work environment. Last year, an independent consulting firm was hired by the Privy Council Office to review reports that Payette was responsible for workplace harassment at Rideau Hall. […]
Jan 21 2021 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Canada’s vaccination campaign is off to a slow start — and news this week that deliveries of the Pfizer product will be reduced dramatically over the next month has further complicated the national rollout. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander leading vaccine logistics at the Public Health Agency of Canada, has said Pfizer will not […]
Jan 21 2021 — CBC — Canada’s national statistical agency is hiring tens of thousands of employees as it prepares for the challenge of conducting a physically-distanced census during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press release published this week, Statistics Canada said it’s overhauling its canvassing practices and looking to bring on 32,000 field staff to survey the Canadian population this […]
Jan 21 2021 — CBC — The town of Oyen in southeastern Alberta has been enjoying a rare thing in the province these past few months: an economic boom. The community has been bustling with pipeline workers who arrived by the hundreds last summer to help build the Canadian leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. Doug Dingman, who owns a grocery […]
Jan 20 2021 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Joe Biden’s presidency will improve a battered Canada-U.S. relationship — but the change at the top won’t be enough on its own to paper over some lingering bilateral concerns, experts say. There will be a shift in both tone and policy in Washington D.C. as the more composed Biden replaces the mercurial Donald Trump in […]
Jan 20 2021 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Incumbency is a powerful thing in politics and unseating an incumbent government is no easy feat. But it’s a little easier when that incumbent government has a rookie leader at the helm. Especially in Newfoundland and Labrador. While Andrew Furey’s Liberal Party has been in power in St. John’s since 2015, he was only sworn […]
Jan 19 2021 — CBC — Conservative MPs will vote on whether to expel eastern Ontario MP Derek Sloan from the party caucus on Wednesday morning in response to Sloan accepting a donation from a notorious white nationalist during his bid to lead the party. More than two dozen of the 121 sitting Conservative MPs have signed a letter requesting a […]
Jan 19 2021 — Peter Zimonjic — CBC — Despite a significant short-term gap in deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he’s still confident the country is on track to vaccinate every Canadian who wants a shot by September. “This situation with the Pfizer delay is temporary. Our vaccination objectives for the first quarter of the year, January […]
Jan 19 2021 — Sophia Harris — CBC — The story has made national headlines in the United States: Foreigners aged 65 and older in Florida, including Canadian snowbirds, are being offered the COVID-19 vaccine. Some snowbirds who made the journey to Florida this winter — despite Canada’s advisory not to travel abroad during the pandemic — are counting their lucky stars, as they […]