Nov 17 2019 — CBC — An 18-year-old Winnipeg woman who made a viral video urging people to vote in October’s federal election has died. In early October, Maddison Yetman was diagnosed with an advanced form of sarcoma and told she had between a few days and a few weeks to live. But she didn’t let that stand in the way […]
Nov 17 2019 — Vassy Kapelos — CBC — It’s here, it’s finally here. Celine Dion in concert! I’m kidding. Well, I am very excited for Celine live, but I’m also very excited for this week’s cabinet swearing in. On Wednesday the prime minister will announce who he’s picked to sit around the table with and decide the future direction of our country. With […]
Nov 17 2019 — Wyatt James Schierman — CBC — “He haunts us still.” Veteran political writers Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson began their seminal biography entitled, Trudeau and Our Times: The Magnificent Obsession, using these words. The book was first published in 1990, many years after Pierre Trudeau’s formal retirement from politics. Nonetheless, the authors argue persuasively that the man still looms large in […]
Nov 17 2019 — CBC — An undercover Mountie who was caught stealing and then tried to blame the episode on a disability has had her grievance denied. The details of the case are included in the recent tranche of appeals heard by the RCMP’s disciplinary review body. According to a summary of the undated case, the officer was arrested and […]
Nov 16 2019 — Graham Thomson — CBC — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney might speak fluent French but he is having difficulty understanding the province of Quebec. And Quebec doesn’t understand Alberta. The two, however, certainly know how to insult each other. Kenney and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet have been trading barbs in both official languages this week. It all started with Kenney’s […]
Nov 16 2019 — Elise von Scheel — CBC — Canada’s weak whistleblower laws leave informants exposed to retribution and it’s time to bolster protections before a crisis hits, says a U.S. expert. “The current law is a fraud. It’s consistently the object of ridicule globally among all the international whistleblower organizations,” Tom Devine, the legal director of the Government Accountability Project, said in an […]
Nov 16 2019 — Peter Zimonjic — CBC — As the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan continue to demand a better deal within the federation, all eyes are beginning to focus on the controversial government equalization program. It was crafted to help poorer provinces deliver the same level of government services as richer ones, but Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe […]
Nov 15 2019 — Katie Simpson — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being urged to move Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland into a new portfolio and give her additional powers by naming her deputy prime minister. The idea has been discussed behind closed doors, according to a source with direct knowledge of the talks. However, sources close to Freeland say she enjoys […]
Nov 15 2019 — CBC — The commissioner for Alberta’s public inquiry into alleged foreign-funded attacks on the oil industry made a $1,000 donation to the United Conservative Party leadership campaign of Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer. The $1,000 cash donation in 2017 by Steve Allan, using his legal first name, Jackson Allan, serves as further evidence to an environmental charity […]
Nov 15 2019 — Rylan Higgins — CBC — Perhaps there is no other topic for which I am better prepared to write commentary than the oil and gas industry. Ask my finger, it’s a bit crooked thanks to a close encounter of the steel kind while working in Alberta’s oil fields. Or ask my high-school girlfriend — during a dinner in the late […]
Nov 15 2019 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that an established 18-month time limit to bring an accused person to justice applies to cases involving youth, but it did not impose a shorter time frame for young persons. In a 5-4 decision, the majority found that an accused person’s “youthfulness” should be considered in assessing what […]
Nov 15 2019 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The cost to run the Senate of Canada has increased by more than a third over the last five years as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reform agenda has led, in part, to increased expenditures in the upper house. CBC News has reviewed the Senate’s spending over the last six years. Before Trudeau’s first election, in […]
Nov 14 2019 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — The NDP isn’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s only option for getting legislation passed in the next session of Parliament, but party leader Jagmeet Singh is arguing the Liberals need the support of a progressive and “national” caucus. Looking for common ground ahead of the House returning next month, Trudeau and Singh met in Ottawa this […]
Nov 14 2019 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The Independent Liberal Senate caucus is disbanding today and all of its members are about to join a new entity called the Progressive Senate Group as the reorganization of Canada’s upper house continues apace. Dismantling the Liberal caucus in the chamber means the upper house will be left without a sitting Liberal senator for the […]
Nov 14 2019 — Murray Brewster — CBC — “Success,” Winston Churchill supposedly said, “is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” That could be the motto of foreign ministers in the anti-Islamic State coalition as they gather Thursday in Washington. Representatives of 30 nations, including Canada, are meeting at the insistence of the French. The gathering […]