Jul 2 2020 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Not since John Diefenbaker’s PCs in the 1950s has a minority government seen a larger jump in support. Governing parties across Canada are enjoying a surge in support as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are no exception. But for a party heading up a minority government to be in such a position […]
Jul 1 2020 — Janyce McGregor — CBC — As negotiators shook hands on the revised North American free trade agreement, they couldn’t have foreseen the fundamental upheaval their countries would soon be facing thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the Trudeau government is looking to celebrate something this Canada Day, it may be the relative security of the status quo that was more […]
Jul 1 2020 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — The Donald Trump era began in 2015 with a promise to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Five years later, the Trump era may end with citizens in much of the rest of the world — Canadians, in particular — insisting on a virtual wall between themselves and the United States. With […]
Jun 30 2020 — CBC — A key piece of a much-scrutinized $900-million program to get youth working in the community will also pay teachers $12,000 each to recruit and mentor students over the summer. The Canada Student Service Grant program, which pays students and recent graduates to work with community organizations across the country, has come under new scrutiny after […]
Jun 30 2020 — Chris Brown — CBC — Prominent Russians with close ties to the Putin government are accusing Canada of interfering in that country’s constitutional vote on gay marriage by opposing a ban. Russians have been voting for the past week on a series of constitutional amendments, the most significant of which would effectively allow President Vladimir Putin to continue in the […]
Jun 30 2020 — Evan Dyer — CBC — Dini Cameron has watched Canada’s long-term care catastrophe unfold with a mounting sense of dread. The 84-year-old recently spoke to CBC News from the home in Ashton, Ont. she shares with her 86-year-old husband Doug. He’s been in a wheelchair since suffering a stroke but the couple “managed for three months without help and did […]
Jun 29 2020 — Paul Withers — CBC — A J.D. Irving company has been awarded a federal government contract to maintain Canada’s current fleet of warships in a deal that could be worth up to $552 million over the next 22 years. Halifax-based Fleetway Inc. will carry out in-service support for systems engineering and technical data management for the 12 Halifax-class frigates, the […]
Jun 29 2020 — CBC — The federal government plans to extend strict quarantine rules requiring travellers to isolate for 14 days upon their arrival in Canada — rules that were set to expire Tuesday — CBC News has learned. “It is the intention of the government to continue the 14-day mandatory self-isolation under the federal Quarantine Act,” said a senior […]
Jun 29 2020 — CBC — Alberta will spend billions on infrastructure projects, cut its corporate tax rate, establish a new investment agency and introduce a series of targeted incentives for industry as part of a plan to restart its battered economy. Premier Jason Kenney said his government would spend $10 billion on projects that will immediately create jobs, including health-care […]
Jun 29 2020 — CBC — The man who killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia stockpiled cash, food and fuel due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, but he gave the people close to him no indications he was plotting an attack, according to the RCMP. Over 13 hours and a span of 150 kilometres, Gabriel Wortman killed friends, neighbours […]
Jun 28 2020 — Kyle Bakx — CBC — As Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan dole out $1.5 billion in federal funding to reclaim inactive oil and gas wells, Indigenous leaders are concerned none of the cash will be spent cleaning up their land. The federal government announced the program as part of its aid package to the oilpatch, designed to stimulate work for […]
Jun 28 2020 — CBC — The decision by Canada’s two biggest airlines to relax on-board physical distancing policies next month is under fire from those who worry about the health implications of doing so amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Air Canada and WestJet announced on Friday they would begin selling tickets for adjacent seats as of July 1, after blocking access […]
Jun 28 2020 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Thanks to the pandemic, the House of Commons came close this year to setting an all-time record for the lowest number of sitting days ever — a number lower than any recorded since the waning days of the Second World War. And the Commons has never experienced a lower number of sitting days outside of […]
Jun 27 2020 — CBC — Iran will send the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger jet shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in January to France to be deciphered next month, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said today. Fifty-five Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents of Canada were among the 176 people killed when Ukraine International Airlines […]
Jun 27 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadian companies need to shift critical supply lines home from overseas as the world prepares for a second wave of COVID-19. “I think that one of the consequences of coronavirus is going to mean, for the economy, a shift from a sort of just-in-time, get-the-very-cheapest-input-possible model, to a model […]