Mar 24 2019 — CBC — A Quebec couple was found dead inside their mobile home in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Friday evening and local authorities are treating the case as a double homicide. Marc Gagne, 80, and Rita Fortin, 78, were from Saint-Côme-Linière, Que., about 100 kilometres southeast of Quebec City. Neighbours, worried about the couple’s absence after a few […]
Mar 24 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Finance Minister Bill Morneau is pushing back at concerns from business groups that his most recent federal budget “failed to address the fundamental issues” facing Canadian companies.
Mar 24 2019 — Global News — The Conservatives and the NDP say that they’re determined to have former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould and former treasury board president Jane Philpott tell their full side of the story on the SNC-Lavalin affair.
Mar 23 2019 — Elise von Scheel — CBC — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says accusations that he panders to groups with hateful or intolerant messaging are unfounded. In his remarks to the Manning Centre networking conference on Saturday, Scheer said he “unequivocally” condemns hateful ideologies. “The criticisms are completely baseless.” Those criticisms have been plentiful in the past few weeks.
Mar 24 2019 — Dean Beeby — CBC — Another federal payroll system needs an overhaul after it was put together quickly and on the cheap – and the repair is expected to cost almost as much as the system itself. The system, which converts paper documents into electronic versions, is used to store payroll information needed for the dysfunctional Phoenix program at the […]
Mar 23 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Liberal Minister Melanie Joly is the latest MP to add her name to a growing list of party supporters who are pointing to the House of Commons as the place for former ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott to air any outstanding information they want to share in the SNC-Lavalin controversy. In an interview on […]
Mar 23 2019 — CBC — Long-time Liberal MP Judy Sgro is calling out fellow caucus members Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, accusing them of targeting their anger and frustration directly at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the SNC-Lavalin scandal. In an explosive interview with Maclean’s — her first media interview since she resigned from the Liberal cabinet on Mar. 4 […]
Mar 23 2019 — Jesse Ferreras — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to affirm that he was trying to protect Canadian jobs when he and his staff spoke with former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould about a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with SNC-Lavalin.
Mar 23 2019 — CTV News — Neither of Alberta’s leading political parties slowed down their campaigning efforts this weekend—despite one group being interrupted by a protestor with a megaphone. NDP Leader Rachel Notley scheduled a tour of her Edmonton-Strathcona constituency on Saturday, but changed plans after a loud voter crashed the event. “Rachel Notley’s gotta go! Hey, hey! Ho, ho!” the […]
Mar 23 2019 — Elise von Scheel — CBC — Anne McLellan, the former Liberal justice minister and attorney general who Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked with exploring whether the dual role she occupied should be split, says Canadians can count on her for an impartial review of the position. “I am taking the emotion out of this,” she told Chris Hall, host of […]
Mar 23 2019 — Global News — Just days after the United Conservative Party candidate for Calgary-Mountain View resigned over comments she made about race and the treatment of white supremacist terrorists, the party’s leader was forced to answer a question about a tape that reportedly captured comments her replacement made about women.
Mar 23 2019 — The Canadian Press — Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians. The Ontario premier told a conference of conservative thinkers, strategists and politicians Saturday that journalists are “losing the battle” to inform people about the news. Speaking at the annual Manning Networking Conference, Ford accused journalists of […]
Mar 22 2019 — Toronto Star — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there has already been “a full airing” of the question of whether Jody Wilson-Raybould “underwent pressure” to drop the SNC-Lavalin prosecution. He dismissed the need Friday for any blanket waiver for his former attorney general, saying his order lifting confidentiality restrictions on Wilson-Raybould frees her to speak and does not […]
Mar 22 2019 — CBC — As Beijing continues to ramp up diplomatic pressure on Canada through its decision to stop importing Canadian canola seed, one former ambassador to China says it’s time for Canada to “remove our white gloves” and retaliate against the Asian superpower. “One of the first measures that I would take would be to expel all Chinese […]
Mar 23 2019 — Globe and Mail — Two and a half months before the 2017 leadership vote for the newly merged United Conservative Party, three conservative activists met at a Tim Hortons on an August afternoon in the bedroom community of Okotoks, south of Calgary, to talk about the prospective candidacy of Jeff Callaway. One of them, a local constituency board member […]