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John Ivison: A sign the government is looking for an off-ramp for the governor general'
Do not be shocked if it emerges that this most touchy-feely of governments has created an expensive, superfluous position to provide a soft landing for Payette RCMP's first female commissioner one of Trudeau's 2 new picks for Senate
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named two new senators to the Red Chamber Monday - one a former top Mountie, the other a prominent Saskatchewan businessman. Ottawa creating new ambassador for women, peace and securityPolitical | 85 hits | 12:02 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday. Canada seeks tariff shield, assurances from U.S. as NAFTA talks continue and Freeland flies home
The window for Canada and the U.S. to land a NAFTA breakthrough this week is getting smaller, as officials sit down in Washington, D.C., today for what are expected to be the final high-level meetings this week. Michael Moore: I’ll move to Canada if ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ gets me in trouble
"Canada has a lot of problems... but [don't] think for a second that you're anywhere near what we have to take care of and correct," said Michael Moore. Toronto-area Liberal MP Leona Alleslev crosses the floor to join ConservativesPolitical | 115 hits | 3:40 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Ontario MP Leona Alleslev is crossing the floor from the Liberals to join the Conservative party caucus — the first such loss for the governing party since the last election. Bill C-69 is Trudeau's bookend to his father's disastrous NEPPolitical | 145 hits | 9:02 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
If you think it’s hard to get any significant resource project built in Canada now, just wait. Justin Trudeau’s federal government has dreamed up a bill so destructive it just might be the bookend to his famous father’s disastrous and infamous Nation Maxime Bernier launches People's Party of Canada | CTV News
Maxime Bernier has debuted the People's Party of Canada, the federal political party the former Tory MP is leading, with a promise to put "Canadian people first." Canada has taken in almost $300 million from retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports
Canada collected nearly $300 million in surtaxes in the first two months after it slapped U.S. imports with retaliatory tariffs. Freeland's shoddy Trump speech may cause us to sufferPolitical | 171 hits | 10:58 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The history books will not look kindly upon Chrystia Freeland for her 2018 Diplomat of the Year award from the esteemed Foreign Policy Magazine.In June, the rookie foreign affairs minister traveled down to Washington, D.C. 'A new low': Conservative robocall tries to exploit Liberal MP's cancer diagnosis
CTV News has obtained audio of a robocall made on behalf of a Conservative riding association that tried to pitch party memberships by citing a Liberal MP’s cancer diagnosis. Facebook uncovers new global misinformation operations
Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behaviour, a far larger discovery than a "sophisticated" effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare. Liberals scrap controversial family reunification lottery, accepting more applications
The Liberal government is scrapping its controversial lottery system for reuniting immigrant families and reverting back to a first-come, first-served system following backlash from frustrated sponsors. Greens won't run candidate in Burnaby South as 'leader's courtesy' to Singh: MayPolitical | 93 hits | 10:00 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Green party will not run a candidate against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the riding of Burnaby South. Most CRA auditors polled say Canada's tax system is skewed to protect the wealthy
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada polled 1,700 of its union members who work for CRA chasing down taxes owed by corporations and the wealthy. The survey found that 90 per cent of them believe the system is skewed to benefit the ri Feds to make a statutory holiday to recognize 'tragic and painful legacy' of residential school
The federal government is planning to announce a new statutory holiday to mark Canada’s destructive residential school legacy. Jagmeet Singh might as well send Rachel Notley a cake shaped like a middle fingerPolitical | 138 hits | 10:41 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Alberta premier has made clear she’d rather stick needles up her nose than have Singh lecture her about pipelines from a seat in B.C.Boris Johnson faces growing criticism over burka jibe
A former minister says he would quit the party if Mr Johnson became leader.
A former minister says he would quit the party if Mr Johnson became leader.Skripal attack: US to sanction Russia over Novichok use
Ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter fell ill after being poisoned by a nerve agent in the UK.
Ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter fell ill after being poisoned by a nerve agent in the UK.Pride: DUP challenges ABC council flag flying decision
The councillors say due process was not followed in a decision to fly the Pride flag from ABC buildings.
The councillors say due process was not followed in a decision to fly the Pride flag from ABC buildings. Hundreds of asylum seekers in college dorms will move to hotels across the GTA
The federal government has agreed to pay for roughly 450 asylum seekers to stay in Toronto-area hotels, a little more than a week before they must leave student residences at Centennial College and Humber College ahead of the fall school season. Canada's polling industry association is shutting down
Surprising those in the polling industry, the Market Research and Intelligence Association has announced it is shutting down. Will something else take its place? Federal scientists to be protected against muzzling, political interference
Federal departments need to have new "scientific integrity} policies to protect their scientists and researchers against political interference by the end of the year — something those scientists lobbied for after being "muzzled" under the previous Conser Ottawa must be held accountable in Indigenous decisions, Minister Bennett tells AFN chiefsPolitical | 307 hits | 11:28 PM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Trudeau makes former Toronto police chief his border security ministerPolitical | 341 hits | 3:59 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
NDP MP Christine Moore cleared of sexual misconduct claims, will remain in caucus
Quebec MP Christine Moore will remain in the NDP caucus and resume her parliamentary duties after an independent investigation found she did not engage in sexual harassment or abuse her authority as an MP, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said today. Scheer demands 'emergency' summer session of Parliament to pass TPP trade deal
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is demanding MPs return to Ottawa to hold an emergency session of Parliament to pass legislation that will ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal. Conservative party pulls attack ad of black man walking over Trudeau tweet
The Conservative party pulled an attack ad from its Twitter feed Tuesday that depicted a black man carrying a suitcase walking over a tweet from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Twitter takes down parody account targeting Liberal MPPolitical | 326 hits | 12:11 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A Twitter account billing itself as a parody of Iqra Khalid disappeared briefly but then returned Friday, its previous tweets deleted, after the Liberal MP complained about references to her Muslim heritage and claims she supports Sharia law and the Islam Ex-senator Mac Harb cleared of mortgage fraud, blames Tory senators for his legal troubles
Former Liberal senator Mac Harb, who resigned at the height of the Senate expenses scandal, says he's been vindicated after settling a dispute with RBC Royal Bank over allegations of mortgage fraud.Facebook flags US Declaration of Independence as hate speech
A passage featuring racist language may be responsible for the automated system mistaking a historical document for hate speech.
Political | 415 hits | 11:27 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A passage featuring racist language may be responsible for the automated system mistaking a historical document for hate speech. Taxpayer bill keeps rising for bogus refugee rapist and killerPolitical | 238 hits | 12:34 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Harper blindsides Trudeau PMO, plans visit to White House | CTV News
Former prime minister Stephen Harper is planning a trip to the White House next week, and hasn’t notified the current Canadian government of his visit, CTV News has learned. Canada Revenue Agency falling behind as uncollected taxes owed rise to $44 billion
A $352 million collection program launched by the Liberals has not stopped the growth in the tax debt - the amount of taxes Canadians acknowledge owing to Ottawa but have not paid. The tax debt hit a record $44 billion in March and is set to rise to more Trump writes Trudeau for increase in NATO defence spendingPolitical | 215 hits | 3:45 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
OTTAWA; As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to attend the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels, U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on Canada to meet the alliance's defence spending targets. Saskatchewan government putting forward proposal to change equalization payments in Canada
Sources close to Premier Scott Moe say he will put forward a plan to make the formula "more fair and equitable for all provinces." Ethics watchdog clears Bill Morneau in pension bill fallout
Finance Minister Bill Morneau wasn't in a conflict of interest when he introduced a pension bill in the House of Commons while he still owned shares in his family's pension company, according to the ethics commissioner. Fluctuating sensor delayed PM's aging plane en route to India, emails show | CTV News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s flight to India in February was delayed due to a malfunctioning engine light, raising more questions about the government’s aging executive aircraft. Trudeau’s ‘secret’ carbon price exposedPolitical | 241 hits | 10:40 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refuses to tell Canadians the costs they face because of his national carbon pricing scheme, here’s an expert assessment likely close to the numbers he’s keeping secret. Drug patents could be Canada's special weapon in U.S. trade disputePolitical | 296 hits | 6:35 PM on Saturday | posted by Winnipegger
Should Canada threaten to start the world's first trade war in intellectual property? Some legal experts argue that targeting pharmaceutical patents could give Canada an edge in the current trade dispute with the U.S.California to vote on splitting into 3 states
Californians will vote in November on whether or not to split into three separate states, with L.A. in one and San Francisco in another.
Californians will vote in November on whether or not to split into three separate states, with L.A. in one and San Francisco in another. Trump confused by Trudeau’s ’pushed around’ comment, says criticism will cost Canada ’a lot of money’
SINGAPORE — U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s assertion that Canada “will not be pushed around” will end up costing Canadians “a lot of money. Proportional representation is only great for unelectable 'professors,' Jean Chretien saysPolitical | 403 hits | 5:57 PM on Tuesday | posted by Freakinoldguy
The former prime minister said that disbanding first past the post would allow untalented 'apparatchiks' to enter parliament 'through the back door'Trump claims 'absolute right' to pardon himself
U.S. President Donald Trump declares that he has the "absolute right" to pardon himself, but adds he has done nothing wrong, asserting his presidential power as the White House sharpens its political and legal defences against the special counsel's Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump declares that he has the "absolute right" to pardon himself, but adds he has done nothing wrong, asserting his presidential power as the White House sharpens its political and legal defences against the special counsel's Russia Rob Fords widow sues Doug Ford, claims he owes her millionsPolitical | 174 hits | 5:49 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
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