Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — Justin Trudeau says the Conservatives have learned nothing from their 2015 election defeat and are still practising the politics of fear and division. The prime minister launched a full-frontal assault on the official Opposition Saturday as he delivered a partisan stemwinder designed to rally Liberal troops in advance of next year’s federal election.
Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian government will lead the first trade missions for women, Indigenous and LGBTQ businesses and entrepreneurs later this year, International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Saturday. The announcement was part of a speech promoting the Liberal government’s progressive trade agenda at the party’s national convention in Halifax. Champagne offered no details about the missions, […]
Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The Canadian government will lead the first trade missions for women, Indigenous and LGBTQ businesses and entrepreneurs later this year, International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Saturday. The announcement was part of a speech promoting the Liberal government's progressive trade agenda at the party's national convention in Halifax. Champagne offered no details about […]
Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — The president of Canadarm-builder MDA says setting up the company’s parent firm in the United States won’t have any impact on jobs in Canada. In October 2017, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, based in Richmond, B.C., became Maxar Technologies Ltd. after it acquired DigitalGlobe, an American satellite imaging company. Maxar’s headquarters were in San Francisco before […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — A senior campaign official for the Ontario Liberals is apologizing for a crude comment he made on live television about Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford. David Herle, campaign co-chair for Premier Kathleen Wynne, appeared on a panel discussion on Toronto TV station CP24 on Friday, where he compared Ford to his late brother, former Toronto […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — A provincial cabinet minister in Nova Scotia has written a letter of complaint to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying he didn’t appreciate a recent segment that made light of the Halifax Explosion. The letter from Labour Minister Labi Kousoulis says even though the disaster happened more than 100 years ago, Nova Scotian families still live […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Prominent Newfoundlanders are criticizing a town’s rejection of a rainbow crosswalk sought by a high school group as a show of support for the LGBTQ community. Comedian Mark Critch and former Great Big Sea members Alan Doyle and Bob Hallett offered support for the Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at Indian River High School after Springdale, N.L., […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being pushed by his backbenchers and grassroots Liberals to take a more progressive stance on issues such as pharmacare, prostitution and illegal drugs. The pressure is coming during the first full day of the Liberals’ national convention and it’s motivated, at least in part, by a determination not to be […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — NAFTA negotiating teams will keep bargaining through the weekend in an effort to get a deal by early May. The political ministers leading the process are currently leaving Washington, but will be back next week. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland calls it a perpetual negotiating round. She says the talks continue to focus primarily on […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader says he is “dead against” safe injection sites and believes the focus should be on drug rehabilitation instead. Doug Ford says that if elected premier in June, he will do everything he can to fight the ongoing opioid crisis and get people struggling with addiction the help they need, but did […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Justin Trudeau is heading home from a lengthy, three-country foreign tour in which the prime minister appeared to recapture his international mojo and reassert several key alliances, but didn’t sign off on any big deals or declarations. When the 10-day trip to Peru, France and the U.K., with a quick stop in Ottawa, started last […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s annual inflation rate continued creeping higher last month to hit 2.3 per cent. The March figure from Statistics Canada shows the pace of inflation inched a little farther past the midpoint of the central bank’s ideal range of between one and three per cent. By comparison, inflation was 2.2 per cent in February and […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — Cannabis activists say although this year’s 4-20 celebrations across the country will likely be the last before recreational pot use becomes legal, there’s still a lot to fight for. The federal government has committed to making marijuana legal by the summer, but the task of regulating the sale and consumption of the drug has been […]
Apr 19 2018 — The Canadian Press — A Montreal strategist says the Conservative party was wise not to publicly shame MP Maxime Bernier for a now-stalled book that accuses Andrew Scheer of pandering to “fake Conservatives” in the Quebec dairy lobby during last year’s leadership race. The controversy over the book, which has since been pulled from publication, won’t leave the party […]
Apr 19 2018 — The Canadian Press — New automotive rules will be the centrepiece of a new NAFTA agreement, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a negotiating round Thursday that remained focused on cars. In an exchange with reporters between sessions at the U.S. trade representative’s office across from the White House, Freeland said she and her peers are now down […]