CTV News

Feb 18 2019 — CTV News — Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair discusses the resignation of Gerald Butts and the growing SNC-Lavalin scandal.

Feb 18 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to launch a public inquiry into the allegations of PMO interference in the SNC-Lavalin case. “It’s become clear now that we need a public inquiry to get to the bottom of what’s happened,” Singh told reporters in Burnaby on Monday. The Globe and Mail has […]

Feb 18 2019 — CTV News — A pregnant Alberta woman who moved to Syria with her ISIS-supporting husband and their two young boys says she wants to return to Canada. The woman, whose first name is Amy, is one of four Canadian ISIS brides who spoke to CTV News from inside the Kurdish-run Al-Hawl refugee camp in eastern Syria. Amy, who […]

Feb 17 2019 — CTV News — The Royal Canadian Air Force marked the arrival of two used Australian fighter jets with a ceremony on Sunday in Cold Lake, Alta. Canada is buying 18 used F-18s and parts from Australia to address a shortage of fighter jets between now and 2032, when 88 new fighter aircraft are expected to be in operation. […]

Feb 17 2019 — CTV News — There were reports of a house explosion in southeast Calgary with fire crews arriving to find one house completely engulfed in flames early Sunday morning. According to a Calgary fire spokesperson, at around 4:22 a.m. MST, they received approximately 25 calls from Calgary residents in the city’s Douglas Glen Close area who said they were […]

Feb 17 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sees the Senate as “an option” for a secondary parliamentary investigation into allegations of PMO interference in the SNC-Lavalin case, should the House justice committee’s limited probe fall flat. On CTV’s Question Period, Scheer was asked if he plans to approach Conservative senators about seeking a study of the issue, if […]

Feb 16 2019 — CTV News — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has urged Canadians in Haiti to take commercial flights out of the crisis-hit Caribbean country while they still can. In a conference call from the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top global defence and foreign policy officials, Freeland told media that her department is following developments in Haiti […]

Feb 16 2019 — Rachel Gilmore — CTV News — Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew says the federal Liberal government’s treatment of Jody Wilson-Raybould in the SNC-Lavalin scandal has done serious damage to the party’s reputation with Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous people have “made up their mind” on the issue, Kinew told CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon during an interview airing Sunday. “Jody […]

Feb 15 2019 — CTV News — Former B.C. premier Christy Clark says that if Jody Wilson-Raybould felt she was being inappropriately pressured by the Prime Minister’s Office in the SNC-Lavalin case, it was her responsibility to report it and resign. “If the minister had been inappropriately pressured, she had a duty under the law – which she would have been aware […]

Feb 15 2019 — Rachel Gilmore — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that, if Scott Brison had not stepped down from cabinet, “Jody Wilson-Raybould would still be minister of justice and attorney general.” Trudeau’s remarks come after reports that the Prime Minister’s Office allegedly tried to influence Wilson-Raybould to ask prosecutors to strike a deal with the Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, which […]

Feb 14 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Quebec Liberal MP and chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee Anthony Housefather has apologized for floating the idea that Jody-Wilson Raybould may have been shuffled out of her job as justice minister because her French language skills are lacking. “There’s millions of reasons that people can be shuffled from one position to another, […]

Feb 14 2019 — Rachel Gilmore — CTV News — A prominent B.C. chief is predicting the prime minister’s treatment of former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will cost Justin Trudeau “all First Nation votes.” Bill Chamberlin, the vice-president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), told CTV Power Play host Don Martin on Thursday that First Nation leaders across the country are “absolutely appalled” […]

Feb 12 2019 — CTV News — An Ontario man who spent four years fighting for ISIS and used social media to recruit others now wants to return home with the help of the Canadian government. Canadian Mohammed Ali says the Islamic State terror group is abandoning its foreign militants as it continues losing ground against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters. The 28-year-old says […]

Feb 10 2019 — Rachel Gilmore — CTV News — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is predicting that Justin Trudeau will be hit with political blowback in the Maritimes if there is a carbon tax in place during the fall election. During an interview on CTV Question Period, Higgs said his province, more than any other, would be hit the hardest by a federally imposed […]

Feb 10 2019 — CTV News — Global Affairs Canada has confirmed that it is aware of Canadian citizens being detained in Syria. That confirmation came Saturday after CNN reported that it had interviewed two Canadian women who had recently fled one of ISIS’ last remaining strongholds: the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria. The two women, who spoke fluent English, said […]