Mar 19 2019 — Global News — Caylan Ford has resigned as a candidate for the United Conservative Party (UCP) in the riding of Calgary-Mountain View following a report that claimed she complained that people don’t treat white supremacist terrorists the same way they do Islamic terrorists, and that she “echoed white nationalist rhetoric.”
Mar 19 2019 — Global News — Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party have a considerable lead over Rachel Notley’s NDP government leading up to this spring’s election, according to an Ipsos/Global News poll released Tuesday.
Mar 18 2019 — Global News — Parliament is back after March Break, but it feels more like Groundhog Day. Monday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet for the third time in as many months, to replace Jane Philpott at Treasury Board after she quit in solidarity with her colleague, former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould. On the same morning, the […]
Mar 18 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is naming a former Liberal justice minister and attorney general as his new special adviser on the SNC-Lavalin affair. Speaking in question period on Monday, Trudeau announced Anne McLellan has been named to the role and will be tasked with examining the controversy and providing recommendations to him by June 30, […]
Mar 18 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel says the government has been “dishonest” with Canadians with its defence of the Safe Third Country Agreement even after departmental officials advised it was “no longer working as intended.”
Mar 17 2019 — Global News — It’s been over six months since John McCain died of brain cancer, but the legendary Republican senator continues to be the target of jibes from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mar 17 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Almost a month after Canada’s ambassador to the United States predicted their steep tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum would be lifted “in the next few weeks,” David McNaughton says he still believes that will be the case.
Mar 17 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The man hailed as a hero for stopping the gunman behind the 2014 Ottawa shooting has set his sights on the New Brunswick Liberal leadership.
Mar 17 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Despite a bevy of recent polls that show Liberal support is leaking in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin matter, nervous Grits can look to how incumbent governments have fared in every general election since 1867.
Mar 15 2019 — Global News — U.S. President Donald Trump said he thinks that white nationalism is “not really” a growing threat on Friday following attacks on two mosques in New Zealand that left 49 people dead.
Mar 15 2019 — Global News — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on President Donald Trump to condemn the mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 49 people as “white supremacist terrorist attacks.”
Mar 14 2019 — Global News — Several people were killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand in an incident that unfolded starting at 1:40 p.m. on Friday, local time, according to reports.
Mar 14 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The Safe Third Country Agreement governing asylum claims between Canada and the United States is “no longer working as intended,” according to documents prepared last year by government officials. Obtained by Global News under access-to-information laws, memos and briefing material shared with Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen ahead of a planned Jan. 18, 2018, meeting with […]
Mar 14 2019 — Stewart Bell — Global News — The Gaddafis lost Libya in 2011, when rebel fighters captured and killed longtime dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But the family still holds a small patch of territory in Canada’s largest city. “Nobody comes, nobody goes,” the property manager at 10 Navy Wharf Ct., who asked not to be identified by name, said of the 40th-floor […]
Mar 12 2019 — Global News — The union representing Air Canada flight attendants says its members don’t want to be forced to fly on Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets amid growing safety concerns surrounding the jet in the wake of Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet.