Oct 28 2020 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says that “either outcome” of next week’s U.S. presidential election will “be significant for Canada.” During a virtual speech to the Toronto Global Forum, Freeland said—as Trudeau has in the past—that the federal government is preparing behind the scenes for the various potential scenarios that the […]
Oct 28 2020 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam is calling for “structural change” across health, social, and economic sectors in the wake of COVID-19, in a new report highlighting the successes and shortfalls in the country’s pandemic response to date. In the Public Health Agency’s annual report made public on Wednesday, Tam offers new insights […]
Oct 27 2020 — CTV News — Of all the COVID-19 symptoms, the most unexpected is election fever. A third clinical trial ended Monday night, an election suggesting the best treatment for party leaders in these uncertain times is a snap inoculation by their voters. Delaying the writ drop risks voter rejection as pandemic Band-aids are ripped off to heal unsustainable deficits […]
Oct 26 2020 — CTV News — The Saskatchewan Party under leader Scott Moe has won its fourth consecutive majority by overwhelming the NDP in a provincial election defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. Moe’s party was elected or leading in 45 seats in early returns Monday, needing just 31 to win a majority government in the 61-seat legislature. This is the third […]
Oct 26 2020 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — In a show of opposition solidarity, the Conservative motion requesting a health committee study into the federal government’s COVID-19 response and the disclosure of what could be thousands of pages of pandemic documents passed on Monday, despite Liberal objections. With the Bloc Quebecois, NDP, and Greens voting in favour of the proposal, the committee will […]
Oct 26 2020 — Sarah Turnbull — CTV News — The House of Commons ethics committee has voted against a motion to obtain all records related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau’s speaking engagements since Oct. 14, 2008, when the prime minister became an elected official. The Conservative-backed motion, introduced by MP Michael Barrett, would have required Speakers’ Spotlight, the […]
Oct 25 2020 — Rachel Gilmore — CBC, CTV News — Health Minister Patty Hajdu says that if China misled the world in the early stages of the pandemic, then they will need to be held to account. Bloomberg News and The New York Times reported in April that the U.S. intelligence community had warned the U.S. administration in a classified report that China “concealed the […]
Oct 25 2020 — CTV News — Several high-profile BC Liberal incumbents have fallen as John Horgan’s NDP secured the party’s first majority government since the 1990s. Long-serving Liberal incumbent Mary Polak has lost her seat in Langley. According to the CTV News results team, Polak was defeated by NDP candidate Andrew Mercier, a local lawyer.
Oct 24 2020 — CTV News — A former member of U.S. President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force says the president was warned “very early on” about the severity of the virus but still went “out of his way” to “undermine” efforts against it. “The president was told very early on that this virus would be worse than the flu,” said Olivia […]
Oct 23 2020 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to remove RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. On Friday, Bellegarde issued a series of tweets in which he asks for Lucki to be replaced with someone “who will focus their attention on public safety and combatting […]
Oct 23 2020 — Don Martin — CTV News — Long before takeoff you see and feel the airline-jolting turbulence kicked up by COVID-19. Flying into the second wave is an eerie and unsustainable combination of dreamy passenger conditions inside a daily nightmare for airlines now turning to the federal government for financial lift. Take my flight to Nanaimo this week, a trip greeted with […]
Oct 22 2020 — CTV News — Calgary International Airport and the Coutts border crossing will be the first in Canada to replace mandatory 14-day quarantines for international travellers with rapid testing, the Alberta Government announced Thursday. The pilot project will be conducted in partnership with the federal government and travel industry. The program will start in early November at the Coutts […]
Oct 21 2020 — Don Martin — CTV News — There was always a faint ray of hope that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would actually live up to his promise to do politics differently after the soul-wearying years under control freak Stephen Harper. Cross-party co-operation, transparency, respect for Parliament, MP empowerment and merit-based, non-partisan appointments all headlined the Trudeau kumbaya playbook. But it’s been five […]
Oct 21 2020 — CTV News — Ottawa’s medical officer of health says the public health unit is investigating the spread of COVID-19 in organized team sports in the city. “Ottawa Public Health is investigating several situations where transmission of COVID-19 has occurred in relation to organized team sports,” Dr. Vera Etches said at a press conference Wednesday morning. “COVID-19 transmission is […]
Oct 21 2020 — CTV News — Kingston-area MPP Randy Hillier will gather a group of supporters without masks at Queen’s Park Wednesday to test what he called the Ford government’s “unlawful orders.” In a video statement, the independent MPP said “I will not be protesting, I will be gathering with friends.”