May 25 2022 — CBC — The Conservatives are joining a growing number of calls for Canada Soccer to cancel a controversial exhibition game against Iran set for next month in Vancouver. The families of those who died aboard Flight PS752 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the plane in 2020 — killing all 176 passengers and crew […]
May 25 2022 — CBC — Canada’s justice minister criticized Quebec’s newly adopted language law on Wednesday, while also providing details on how and when the federal government could get involved in the legal challenge of the province’s controversial religious symbols law. His statements appear to have angered Quebec’s premier. “It makes no sense,” said François Legault, who added that the […]
May 25 2022 — Ashley Burke — CBC — A court has set aside 13 days next year for the criminal trial of the military’s former head of human resources. Vice-Admiral Haydn Edmundson was charged in December 2021 with sexual assault and committing indecent acts. Edmundson has denied any wrongdoing. The trial is set to start Aug. 8, 2023 in an Ottawa civilian court, […]
May 25 2022 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — Attempts to follow the threads that led to the federal government’s historic invocation of the Emergencies Act in February have come upon a knot — the question of who, if anyone, provided the advice that led the government to declare an emergency. Unravelling that knot is vital to understanding how the Emergencies Act came to […]
May 24 2022 — CBC — Canada Soccer is paying Iran’s soccer federation $400,000 to play a controversial exhibition game next month in Vancouver, according to the head of Iran’s national team. The team’s director, Hamed Estili, told Iranian state-affiliated media outlet Tasnim that for the first time in 22 years, Iran’s soccer federation will make a profit off a friendly […]
May 24 2022 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal Liberal government to scrap taxes on gasoline temporarily as Canadians grapple with eye-popping fuel prices ahead of the busy summer driving season. With the price of almost everything spiking due to a 30-year high in inflation, the cost of living has become the top political […]
May 24 2022 — Murray Brewster — CBC — It made for an extraordinary sight recently on the broken, battered streets of Kharkiv on a warm Saturday afternoon. A Russian T-80 main battle tank, draped in camouflage netting and Ukrainian flags and pennants, was broken down in front of a neighborhood grocery store, where weary shoppers shuffled past with barely a glance. “Russian junk,” […]
May 24 2022 — CBC — Canadians are facing record-high gas prices, which is making driving more unaffordable and feeding into the climbing cost of everyday goods and services. In the last year, gas prices have jumped by more than 50 per cent, pushing the cost of a litre to more than $2 in many parts of the country. At the […]
May 24 2022 — Mike Crawley — CBC — Just nine days remain in the Ontario election campaign, not a lot of time for the race to shift dramatically, but Liberal and NDP strategists claim it’s enough time. Both those parties hoped that they would have definitively left the other in the dust by this point in the campaign, and sitting within clear striking […]
May 24 2022 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — Canada’s intelligence community will have to grapple with the growing influence of anti-democratic forces in the United States — including the threat posed by conservative media outlets like Fox News — says a new report from a task force of intelligence experts. “The United States is and will remain our closest ally, but it could […]
May 23 2022 — CBC — Move ends party investigation into email to Patrick Brown campaign, which expressed support for Hitler. A Conservative Party member who sent a racist email to the Patrick Brown leadership campaign has resigned his membership, ending the party’s investigation into the matter. The former party member expressed support for Nazism and Adolf Hitler and made racist […]
May 23 2022 — CBC — The prime minister will be in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday to attend a special ceremony on the anniversary of the discovery of hundreds of suspected unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school. The details of Justin Trudeau’s participation in the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Le Estcwicwéy̓ (The Missing) memorial were released Sunday evening. […]
May 22 2022 — CBC — Canada and other countries should not be concerned about providing Russian President Vladimir Putin with an off-ramp to save face over the war in Ukraine, says Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday, Bob Rae said the international community should instead be focusing on supporting Ukraine and […]
May 22 2022 — CBC — Marjorie Knight used to knock on doors alone. This Ontario election, her campaign team has decided to always have her canvassing with someone else. “I had people call the police on me because I was ‘casing’ homes as I was going door to door knocking,” said the Cambridge NDP candidate. “You go up to somebody […]
May 22 2022 — Mike Crawley — CBC — If there is one riding in the province the Ontario Liberals most desperately want to win on election night, it’s Vaughan-Woodbridge, where party leader Steven Del Duca is running. Del Duca is trying to reclaim a seat that he lost in the last election by a whopping 7,945 votes. He faces a rematch against Michael […]