Oct 16 2019 — Postmedia — Jodi Butts, the wife of Gerry Butts, former principal secretary to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, has been nominated to the board of cannabis company Aphria Inc., according to company filings made public Tuesday in conjunction with the licensed producers’ quarterly financial results. Jodi Butts, a lawyer by trade, was nominated as part of a broader […]
Oct 16 2019 — Kevin Donovan — Toronto Star — The multibillion dollar estate of murdered philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman is part of the police investigation into their deaths, a homicide detective has told a Toronto court. “The information from the (Sherman) estate files is embedded…it is embedded within the ITO,” Det.-Const. Dennis Yim told the Ontario Court of Justice during an application from […]
Oct 16 2019 — iPolitics — On the same day that another fabricated hit piece on Justin Trudeau was circulated by thousands on Facebook, company executives confirmed the social media platform wouldn’t ban one of the top outlets responsible for fake Canadian political news. Instead, Facebook said it’s continuing to rely on existing deterrence measures that haven’t stopped users from sharing […]
Oct 16 2019 — Edmonton Journal — The Green Party candidate running in the riding of Edmonton-Strathcona announced Wednesday he is ending his campaign and encouraging supporters to vote strategically and vote for the NDP. The closely contested race in the riding now has one less person after Green Party candidate Michael Kalmanovitch announced he was stepping down during a forum at […]
Oct 16 2019 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau today acknowledged the Conservatives could win Monday’s election — and accused the party of winning support by running one of the “dirtiest, nastiest” election campaigns in Canadian history. Surrounded by 29 Quebec candidates at an event at Montreal’s Botanical Garden Wednesday, Trudeau appealed to Quebecers to support his party and elect […]
Oct 16 2019 — Rachel Browne — Global News — A new report is giving the Conservative Party a failing grade when it comes to platform measures to reduce poverty and boost affordability — and the Liberals don’t fare well either. Health Providers Against Poverty (HPAP) released a report card on Tuesday comparing how the election promises of the four major federal parties would impact […]
Oct 16 2019 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — Jagmeet Singh returned to the childhood home of former NDP leader Jack Layton today, promising to build on his legacy in Quebec while trying to dispel fears the party could be pushed off the province’s electoral map in Monday’s election. While the New Democrats are experiencing a late surge in the polls nationwide, they are […]
Oct 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is refusing to explain how he travelled to the United States as a citizen without a valid U.S. passport. Multiple requests to the party for an explanation have been ignored over the last 11 days. The United States Immigration and Nationality Act says it is against the law for U.S. citizens […]
Oct 16 2019 — Sophia Harris — CBC — Canada’s privacy commissioner has concluded that Loblaws initially requested too much personal information from some customers before they could collect their $25 gift card — offered to make up for the company’s bread price-fixing scandal. After a five-month investigation, commissioner also ruled that because Loblaws later revised its request to clarify the precise data it […]
Oct 16 2019 — Murray Brewster — CBC — Many foreign diplomats stationed in Ottawa are putting pen to paper — or fingers to keyboards — this week to give their home governments a sense of where they believe Canada’s federal election is headed. Foreign policy and the extraordinary events unfolding overseas seem to have attracted little political notice in Canada during the campaign, […]
Oct 16 2019 — Global News — Close to three in 10 voters see the Conservatives as the party most committed to keeping their election promises, according to a new Ipsos poll focusing on trust. Conducted exclusively for Global News between Oct. 11 and 13, the poll found that 28 per cent of respondents view the Conservatives as the party they trust […]
Oct 16 2019 — Nik Nanos — Nanos Research — Conservatives and Liberals remain gripped in a coin toss election. Neither Trudeau nor Scheer have advantage as preferred PM.
Oct 15 2019 — Globe and Mail — The Manning Centre put out a fundraising call for election advertising and then passed that money along to a series of third-party political groups that have been running attack ads against the federal Liberals, the organization said. But the source of the Manning Centre’s donations to those groups, worth more than $300,000, will remain hidden […]
Oct 16 2019 — Mike Le Couteur — Global News — In an impassioned speech, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer evoked images of former prime minister John Diefenbaker and the man known as the father of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, Jean Lesage. But Conservatives gathered at a banquet hall on Montreal’s south shore Tuesday night say it was too little, too late.
Oct 16 2019 — Global News — Surrounded in the shrinking territory of the Islamic State nine months ago, Safraz Ali fled with his wife, walking to a military checkpoint where soldiers asked their nationalities. “I said, ‘Canadians,’” Ali told Global News at a military base in northern Syria, where he was being held at a prison for ISIS suspects. In an […]