Oct 1 2022 — CTV News — Ottawa police have announced charges against a former Canadian senator. Don Meredith, 58, of Toronto, is charged with three counts of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in connection with alleged incidents in 2013 and 2014, which police say were reported by an adult woman. Meredith was charged Saturday and released on a […]
Sep 30 2022 — CTV News — Canada is headed for a recession in early 2023, according to one economist. “I don’t think that we’re in a recession just yet, but I do think that one is on the horizon,” David Doyle, the head of economics at Macquarie Group, told BNN Bloomberg. “Our baseline is that Canada will enter a recession in […]
Sep 28 2022 — Glen McGregor — CTV News — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it’s “ridiculous” that Conservative MPs will vote against a proposed dental benefit for children in low-income families when they enjoy far more comprehensive dental care coverage for their own families. “Conservative MPs are planning to vote against giving kids dental care when their leader has had publicly-paid dental care for […]
Sep 28 2022 — CTV News — Canadian actor Robert Cormier, who appeared in shows like “Heartland” and “American Gods,” has died at age 33. An employee at Ridley Funeral Home confirmed the death to CTV News Toronto, but did not reveal the cause and declined to comment further. According to an obituary on the funeral home’s website, Cormier died on Sept. […]
Sep 27 2022 — CTV News — A stem cell transplant will forever connect Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc with a young man from Germany. “I would have died,” LeBlanc told Evan Solomon on CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Monday. The minister was diagnosed with an aggressive blood cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2019. Jonathan Kehl was just 21 years old […]
Sep 26 2022 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will be visiting the regions in Atlantic Canada impacted by Fiona “as soon as possible this week.” While indicating a desire to not interfere with any of the emergency response efforts on the ground, PM Trudeau said he wants all people in eastern Canada “to know that we are […]
Sep 25 2022 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer says Pierre Poilievre’s caucus will be supporting the Liberal government’s bill to temporarily double the GST credit. After days of Conservative MPs making comments suggesting they’d support the legislation, in an interview on CTV’s Question Period, Scheer confirmed that will be the case, saying “putting tax dollars back in the […]
Sep 23 2022 — Don Martin — CTV News — Finally and mercifully, ArriveCAN is dead on arrival at airports and border crossings as mandatory vaccination for foreign entry to Canada is lifted by month’s end, according to government sources. The glitch-prone app, which frantic foreigners scrambled to download in customs lineups or while huddled in cars near land points of entry, had its day […]
Sep 21 2022 — CTV News — This past weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the subject of backlash after a video of him singing at a London, U.K., hotel bar two days before Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was circulated widely online. In the 15-second video recorded Saturday, Trudeau can be seen wearing a t-shirt and singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, while […]
Sep 21 2022 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Parliament Hill was abuzz Wednesday amid reports that the federal government is planning on dropping COVID-19 vaccine requirements at the border, doing away with mandatory random COVID-19 testing, and making the ArriveCan application optional. The government is expected to make these policy changes by the end of the month, sources told CTV News and other […]
Sep 20 2022 — Joyce Napier — CTV News — The federal government plans to drop its COVID-19 vaccine border requirements by the end of September and make the ArriveCan application optional, sources confirmed to CTV News. The government is expected to make this policy change by the end of the month, and the sources indicated the Liberals would also end the outstanding random COVID-19 […]
Sep 20 2022 — Mike Le Couteur — CTV News — The NDP is the first party out of the gate with an attack ad against Pierre Poilievre, launching the attempt to frame the new Conservative leader as “not in it for you” just as the fall sitting of Parliament gets underway. The ad, sent Tuesday to party donors and set to roll out on social […]
Sep 16 2022 — CTV News — Anti-hate experts are urging policy makers to take action against what they describe as growing right-wing extremism in Canada. One of these experts says research suggests that millions of Canadians have been drawn into the far right over the course of the pandemic, some of whom have been indoctrinated by misinformation and lies that were […]
Sep 11 2022 — Don Martin — CTV News — It’s a daring experiment by the Conservatives – overwhelmingly elect a hard-right fire-breathing leader and expect enough voters to gravitate in his direction to win a federal election. That wasn’t the case with post-Harper leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole, who shifted right-wing positions toward the mainstream in what became a futile effort to find […]
Sep 7 2022 — CTV News — Two out of five Canadians say they were unable to access essential health-care services in the last six months, according to a new Angus Reid report. The study, which surveyed nearly 3,500 Canadians and Americans combined, also found that Canadian confidence in our health-care system is currently lower than American confidence in theirs, with Americans […]