May 10 2019 — CTV News — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has promised to save the jobs of 34 employees with developmental disabilities. CTV news first broke the story earlier this week that the national archives program was ending. This morning, Scheer met with the workers to reassure them that won’t happen, telling the workers that they will have jobs well into […]
May 9 2019 — CTV News — A veteran BBC radio host has been fired over a “racist” tweet about the new royal baby. Danny Baker, who presents a show on BBC Radio 5 Live, tweeted then deleted an image comparing newborn Archie Harrison to a chimp. The 61-year-old apologized and deleted the tweet but later slammed the BBC for the way […]
May 8 2019 — CTV News — Bundled in his father’s arms, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex finally revealed their newborn son to the world during a photo call at Windsor Castle.
May 7 2019 — CTV News — Voters in Nanaimo, B.C., elected the Green Party’s Paul Manly as their new member of Parliament, barely six months before October’s federal election. With about 93 per cent of the ballots counted in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith byelection, Manly has taken about 38 per cent of the vote. John Hirst, the Conservative candidate, is a distant second […]
May 6 2019 — CTV News — On Monday, the federal Conservatives seized on the news that former star candidate and now outgoing Liberal MP Andrew Leslie is on the witness list to testify, if called, against the government on behalf of suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. In the first question period since CTV News first reported that Leslie was willing to testify […]
May 6 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The federal government has announced they will be increasing the Canada child benefit program this summer, meaning families who qualify across the country will be receiving slightly larger payments just three months before going to the polls. Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos announced the increase — which will come into effect […]
May 6 2019 — CTV News — Top Canadian officials are pushing the U.S. to take action to help calm the ongoing dispute with China, CTV News has learned. Sources confirm that Canada wants the U.S. to speak directly with China on Ottawa’s behalf. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Canada’s ambassador to the United States David MacNaughton […]
May 5 2019 — CTV News — Some middle class families will have a little more money in their pockets when the federal election rolls around, as the Liberals prepare to announce an increase to the Canada child benefit (CCB). CTV News has learned that Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos will announce an increase to the CCB on Monday morning. The increase […]
May 5 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — U.S. President Donald Trump has “messed up the clock” on getting the renegotiated NAFTA deal ratified, and it may now die in its current form, says former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period, Heyman said that the deal in its current form is dead.
May 3 2019 — CTV News — Former star candidate and now outgoing Liberal MP Andrew Leslie is on the witness list to testify if called, against the government on behalf of suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in the high-profile case about the alleged leak of cabinet documents, CTV News has learned. Leslie, who represents the Ottawa riding of Orleans and was previously […]
May 2 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — New Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he has “no intention” of running any government-funded advertising campaigns that could be seen as wading into the federal race. In an interview on CTV’s Power Play, Kenney said that his government has “no intention of intervening in the federal election with tax dollars.” “I’ll be out there, unapologetically […]
May 1 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Elections Canada has identified and is set to eliminate some 103,000 people from the federal voters register who have been determined to be on the list illegally because they are not Canadian citizens. Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault told the Senate National Finance Committee on Tuesday that his office has identified these names on the […]
Apr 30 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says that she is concerned about the “cruel and inhumane” death sentence China has issued to a Canadian involved in an international drug operation. According to The Associated Press, a court in China issued either death or life sentences to 11 people who were convicted for producing methamphetamine. The Canadian […]
Apr 29 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The House of Commons resumed sitting on Monday for what’s set to be an intense session before Parliament adjourns for the last time before the federal election will be called, and the governing Liberals came out swinging bright and early against Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna and Finance Minister […]
Apr 29 2019 — CTV News — For the second time this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in the Region of Waterloo. Trudeau will be at the Cambridge Toyota plant this afternoon for, what’s expected to be, a major manufacturing announcement. The Prime Minister will be joined by Fred Volf, the president of Toyota Canada.