Jun 23 2018 — Globe and Mail — Alberta and Saskatchewan plan to fight Ottawa for a new equalization deal, even though a five-year renewal of the current formula was passed into law this week. Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Friday he was informed in a letter in May of Ottawa’s plan to renew the current formula. But he said he intends […]
Jun 23 2018 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Each day, 400,000 Canadians cross the Canada-U.S. border. Beginning Oct. 17, 2018, more and more of those travellers could be forced to answer an uncomfortable question posed by wary American customs officers: Have you ever smoked pot? Those who tell the truth risk being banned from the United States for life and might have to […]
Jun 23 2018 — Associated Press — A freight train from Alberta derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies downstream, officials said. No one was injured when 33 oil tanker cars derailed around 4:30 a.m. Friday just south of Doon, in Lyon County, […]
Jun 23 2018 — CBC — Canada’s military may not be ready to plant a flag in outer space, but a former chief of the defence staff says the federal government would do well to keep an eye on what the U.S. does next with its promised new “space force.” It wouldn’t make sense for Canada to attempt to build something […]
Jun 22 2018 — CBC — The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority is firing back against the Ambassador Bridge and the “untruths” contained in its TV ad that aired in Washington, targeting U.S. President Donald Trump. That ad said the construction of the new Canadian-funded Gordie Howe International Bridge will take jobs and trade away from the U.S.
Jun 23 2018 — The Star Vancouver — “It’s my opinion, I’m Bill Good,” the broadcaster’s familiar voice has signed off daily over the Vancouver airwaves for nearly three years. Now, listeners of News 1130 and B.C. residents far and wide are hearing more from the award-winning veteran broadcaster — who’s also wearing a different hat as the voice of a new anti-electoral-reform […]
Jun 23 2018 — CBC — Daniel Peacock says this year is tougher for Camp Jordan. The small Baptist summer camp in Jordan Falls, N.S., has relied on $4,000 in federal grant money to hire a student camp counsellor for the last four years — a job that is invaluable, according to Peacock, a member of the board that oversees the […]
Jun 22 2018 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — Jagmeet Singh was supposed to be in Chicoutimi. Headlines heralded the arrival of all three major party leaders to the riding north of Québec City last week, just days before a federal byelection. Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer were actually expected to appear at the same event: the opening leg […]
Jun 22 2018 — Murray Brewster — CBC — The Liberal government has concluded a deal with a Quebec shipyard to purchase, through a sole-source contract, three medium icebreakers to relieve pressure on the Canadian Coast Guard’s aging fleet. The agreement struck with Chantier Davie of Levis, Que., which operates the Davie shipyard, was announced Friday in a release by Public Services and Procurement […]
Jun 22 2018 — iPolitics — Just weeks ahead of the NATO summit U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on allies, including Canada, to increase defence spending on NATO. It comes by way of a letter, obtained by iPolitics, written on White House letterhead and signed by Trump, that was sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on June 19. “There is […]
Jun 22 2018 — Katie Simpson — CBC — One of Donald Trump’s protectionist “America first” policies is partly to blame for making home ownership too costly for more than one million Americans. According to the U.S.-based National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), American tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber have caused housing prices in the United States to jump by an average of $9,000 […]
Jun 22 2018 — Blacklock’s Reporter — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been fined $100 for another breach of Parliament’s ethics code, this time involving a gift from the Premier of Prince Edward Island. Neither the breach nor fine were disclosed until Parliament prepared to adjourn for summer recess.
Jun 22 2018 — CTV News — Five months after Shayma Senouci left Quebec to join Islamic State fighters (ISIS) in Syria, she wrote a long email to her friends back home. She told them that she felt she didn’t belong in the West and that she had an obligation to emigrate to a Muslim country. “I left because I felt imprisoned […]
Jun 22 2018 — National Post — News broke late Thursday that the government was renewing the federal equalization program — with no changes. But Alberta’s United Conservative Party was ready for it. UCP leader Jason Kenney planted himself in front of some rail tanker cars and took advantage of Alberta’s mid-June bounty of sunlight — more than 17 hours — to […]