Jan 22 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Most governors general occupy Rideau Hall for a standard term of five years, unless asked to stay on. Never before has one resigned amid a cloud of scandal as is the case with the most recent occupant of the vice-regal office, Julie Payette. Still, it appears Payette could be on track to receive the same […]
Jan 22 2021 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not apologizing for his decision to appoint former Gov. Gen. Julie Payette following a ‘scathing’ report that has since led to her resignation.
Jan 22 2021 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced anger from some of Canada’s premiers Thursday over U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline project — including heated calls for punishment that could fracture ties between the two allies. The First Ministers call, which lasted just over an hour, also touched on the coronavirus pandemic […]
Jan 21 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — Canada’s Governor General Julie Payette has resigned following the “scathing” findings of an independent review into workplace abuse allegations that had been levied against her. Sources have told Global News that the findings left Payette with two options: to resign, or be fired. By Thursday afternoon, she had chosen the former.
Jan 21 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — After nearly two years, Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX 8 aircraft are returning to Canadian skies. WestJet is set to become the first Canadian airline to return the aircraft to commercial service with a flight from Calgary to Vancouver on Thursday morning, following extensive review by Transport Canada.
Jan 20 2021 — Stewart Bell — Global News — A company run by a man on Canada’s no-fly list for allegedly financing terrorism and another barred from government national security contracts over alleged links to Indian intelligence were among the recipients of federal COVID-19 relief funds, records show. Yellow Car Rental and Life Prediction Technologies were both recipients of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy […]
Jan 19 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is “pleased” to see Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole attempting to remove a frequently condemned member of his caucus over campaign contributions from a man who has been described as a neo-Nazi. In a press conference held outside Rideau Cottage on Tuesday morning, Trudeau addressed O’Toole’s announcement the previous evening […]
Jan 19 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — The man in charge of Canada’s coronavirus vaccine rollout logistics has confirmed that the country will not receive any Pfizer vaccine doses during the week of January 25, due to delivery delays that have hit countries around the world. “We are now seeing that our entire expected shipment is deferred for next week, and then […]
Jan 19 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is “making sure” the incoming U.S. administration hears our views in support of the Keystone XL pipeline expansion. His comments come just days after reports that Joe Biden is planning to cancel the planned pipeline expansion as one of his first moves after becoming U.S. president on Wednesday.
Jan 18 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan says the government is continuing to “make the case” for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion despite reported plans from Joe Biden to immediately quash the project.
Jan 17 2021 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Canada’s former chief of defence staff says he thinks the country is unlikely to encounter civil unrest similar to the sectarian election violence gripping the U.S. ahead of its upcoming transfer of power. In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, retired Gen. Jonathan Vance said the two countries are fundamentally different in ways […]
Jan 16 2021 — Global News — As the country settles into its second year of the pandemic and party leaders ruminate on the December brush with elections when Liberals survived a confidence vote, their parties are already vying for the elusive Quebec vote.
Jan 16 2021 — Global News — One month since the start of coronavirus vaccinations in Canada, there is growing support for COVID-19 vaccines, with a majority of Canadians in favour of making the shots mandatory. According to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News, 64 per cent of Canadians think the inoculations should be made compulsory. Meanwhile, 72 per […]
Jan 15 2021 — Rachel Gilmore — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is playing “dangerous games around intolerance and hate,” following comments Blanchet made about the new transport minister. The Bloc leader took aim at the new Transport Minister Omar Alghabra saying that “questions arise” from minister’s former role as head of the Canadian Arab Federation, […]
Jan 15 2021 — Global News — The Ontario government has kicked out one of its own members after an MPP wrote a letter to Doug Ford calling for the end to the lockdown measures implemented due to a surge in coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations. “The lockdowns are deadlier than COVID,” wrote Roman Baber, MPP for Toronto’s York-Centre riding, as the […]