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Jun 22 2022 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The Canadian government is freezing federal funding to Hockey Canada as the organization remains embroiled in a firestorm of scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday called the organization’s handling of the allegations “unacceptable,” while Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge said Hockey Canada will be “held accountable.”

Jun 21 2022 — Alex Boutilier and Mercedes Stephenson — Global News — Pierre Poilievre says he supports “all Canadians who peacefully stand up for their rights” amid reports a second so-called convoy protest is planned for Ottawa. In a statement Tuesday, Poilievre denied claims the presumptive Conservative leadership frontrunner would greet the potential protest planned for Canada Day in Ottawa. But he called vaccine mandates “unfair, unscientific […]

Jun 21 2022 — Teresa Wright — Global News — Dianne Young says she sometimes walks the hallways of the addictions mental health recovery home she runs in P.E.I., wishing her son Lennon could have had a chance to heal there. Lennon Waterman was 29 years old when he lost his battle with drug addiction and mental illness in 2013. His body was found along […]

Jun 21 2022 — Alex Boutilier — Global News — Conservative leadership hopeful Scott Aitchison says it’s time to scrap Canada’s “One China” policy and officially recognize the government in Taiwan. And he said the Conservatives should do that even if it risks further ire from Beijing, which he believes intervened in the 2021 federal election to hurt the party’s chances in key ridings.

Jun 21 2022 — Global News — Junior hockey players who may have been involved in an alleged sexual assault at a Hockey Canada event in 2018 were not required to cooperate in an investigation into the matter, the organization’s top executives told MPs Monday. Outgoing CEO Tom Renney and president and COO Scott Smith, who will soon be replacing Renney as CEO, told a House […]

Jun 19 2022 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Rampant inflation in the Canadian economy means the Bank of Canada will have to raise rates above three per cent to bring things back under control, suggests one economist. Don Drummond, an economist and fellow with Queen’s University, spoke with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson and said while the Bank has been clearly signalling an […]

Jun 19 2022 — Alex Boutilier and Mercedes Stephenson — Global News — Two years ago, Jean Charest suggested the Conservative Party had changed from what he once knew. Today, he’s seeking to lead it. In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Charest remained adamant he can win the party’s leadership race, despite claims from his rivals that they have signed up hundreds of thousands of […]

Jun 17 2022 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Bureaucrats supporting the Prime Minister’s Office claim they need until February 2023 to decide whether to release records about the so-called “Freedom Convoy” — the same month the judicial inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is set to wrap up. Global News submitted a request under access to information laws to the Privy […]

Jun 17 2022 — Teresa Wright — Global News — At least half of Canadians are concerned about outbreaks of the monkeypox virus in Canada, but this concern doesn’t come close to the distress people felt over COVID-19, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News. Even as monkeypox cases continue to slowly rise in pockets of the country, 67 per cent […]

Jun 16 2022 — Global News — The two men arrested after a bogus Parliament Hill bomb threat on Saturday are asking police for answers — and a public apology. Parminder Singh and Manveer Singh were organizers of a planned rally for Parliament Hill on Saturday to commemorate the June 1984 massacre of Sikhs in India. Their rally was relocated when a […]

Jun 16 2022 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — The federal government’s new legislation proposing sweeping new powers to direct cybersecurity for private sector critical infrastructure operators has “good bones,” according to experts. But they warn that provisions in the bill to gag any operator from disclosing orders from the government to fix their systems — potentially requiring tens of millions of dollars in […]

Jun 16 2022 — Global News — With a prominent former federal politician planning to leave his post as Alberta’s premier, another prominent politician who still serves as an MP says she is considering whether to run for his job. Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, announced in a thread on Twitter Wednesday […]

Jun 15 2022 — Global News — A three-year investigation into money laundering in B.C. casinos and the housing market has found no links to political corruption. In a more than 1,800-page report, the Cullen Commission team outlines that elected officials in the province were aware of suspicious funds entering the provincial revenue stream through the gaming industry, but there is no […]

Jun 15 2022 — Global News — The risk to Canada’s economic reputation was behind the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to deter the “Freedom Convoy” blockades across the country, the deputy prime minister and finance minister repeatedly told MPs Tuesday. But Chrystia Freeland — the highest-ranking minister yet to appear before the special committee investigating the government’s unprecedented use […]

Jun 14 2022 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced the attendance of a Canadian official at a Russia Day party at the Russian embassy while Canada is attempting to separate itself from the country due to the war in Ukraine. “Obviously, it is absolutely unacceptable for any Canadian representative to be at this event,” Trudeau said Tuesday during question […]