Jun 29 2022 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Canada’s Senate is nearly 20 per cent vacant after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowed some seats in the upper chamber to go unfilled, in some instances for years at a time. Of the 105 seats in the upper house, 17 are unoccupied and some provinces — most of them west of Quebec — have been […]
Jun 29 2022 — CBC — One of the judges who presided over the court hearings of Freedom Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered serious enough to require police intervention, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada and CBC. The judge in question confirmed that supporters of the convoy from Canada and the United States sent several offensive messages, […]
Jun 28 2022 — CBC — The Liberal government has waived cabinet confidence over documents relating to its invocation of the Emergencies Act, agreeing to a request from the head of the public inquiry examining the use of the act. Paul Rouleau, the head of the Public Order Emergency Commission, requested the cabinet confidence be waived on documents that cabinet used […]
Jun 28 2022 — David Thurton — CBC — The contest to find the next Green Party leader is off to a rocky start, with leadership hopefuls and a former party insider complaining about the restrictive rules governing the race. The Greens released the contest details and began accepting leadership candidates on Tuesday. With a strict bilingual requirement, a low-entry fee and a short […]
Jun 28 2022 — CBC — B.C. Premier John Horgan will not be seeking re-election in the next provincial election. The two-term NDP premier, who was recently treated for throat cancer, made the announcement Tuesday, citing his health as one of the primary reasons behind his decision. “My health is good, but my energy flags as the days go by,” Horgan, […]
Jun 28 2022 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — Canada’s electronic spy agency says it’s used its arsenal to try and stop foreign extremists from recruiting Canadians and sharing violent material online. The acknowledgement is nestled in the Communications Security Establishment’s annual report made public Tuesday, which points to recent cases where it flexed its cyber muscles. While the details are largely sanitized in […]
Jun 28 2022 — CBC — Three people are dead, including the suspect, after multiple stabbings and the ensuing police response south of Ottawa’s core late Monday night. Ottawa police said in a news release they were called to a home on Anoka Street near Grasmere Crescent, just south of Heron Road, at about 10:30 p.m. for “reports of a stabbing […]
Jun 28 2022 — Murray Brewster — CBC — Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, likely didn’t set out to steal anyone’s thunder — but it was hard for anyone at the G7 Summit in Germany to ignore the man on Monday. Affable, seemingly awkward sometimes, the former prime minister of Norway has been a steady, usually unflappable presence on the international stage, […]
Jun 27 2022 — CBC — Family-friendly drag events across Canada, many hosted by municipal libraries, have been targeted by a deluge of hateful comments and threats during Pride month, prompting multiple police investigations and renewed concerns about the safety of the LGBTQ community. More than half a dozen libraries and drag performers, from Saint John to Victoria, reported being inundated […]
Jun 27 2022 — CBC — Documents show that Ches Crosbie, the former leader of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Progressive Conservative Party, donated $300,000 to the party last year — more than 40 per cent of its overall income — as it waged a drawn-out and controversial election campaign that was thrown into chaos by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this large injection […]
Jun 27 2022 — Janyce McGregor — CBC — Selling Russian-owned assets to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction may sound like a logical approach to restitution, but as the Canadian government gains new powers to begin this process, questions remain about how it will work, and whether some issues are headed to court. C-19, the budget implementation bill, received Royal Assent last Thursday. Among its […]
Jun 26 2022 — Murray Brewster — CBC — The leaders of the world’s top democratic economies arrived in Germany on Sunday, beginning an extraordinary week of meetings where they will be under intense pressure to do more for Ukraine in its war with Russia. The meeting of G7 leaders in Schloss Elmau, nestled in the Bavarian Alps, will be followed immediately on Wednesday […]
Jun 26 2022 — Christian Paas-Lang — CBC — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she must strike a balance between helping Canadians suffering from the effects of inflation and pursuing a policy of fiscal restraint — or risk making the cost of living problem worse. In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Freeland, who also serves as deputy prime minister, said she […]
Jun 25 2022 — Jason Markusoff — CBC — Rivals for Jason Kenney’s job urge more caution, less provocation. But party voters may crave crisis. In an anxious fantasy sequence in an episode of The Simpsons, young Lisa Simpson imagines playing saxophone at a rock concert as the audience pelts her band with jeers. She snaps out of the daydream, asking: “Why would they […]
Jun 25 2022 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — A funny thing happened during the depths of the pandemic: a plurality of Canadians felt their governments were having a positive impact on peoples’ lives. It didn’t last. But perhaps governments should be thinking hard now about how they can engender such good feelings, even outside of moments of profound crisis. In March 2020, just […]