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Health experts denounce Scheer’s comments on Canada’s Food Guide as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘disingenuous’Political | 117 hits | 7:03 PM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever
High court won't hear NDP expenses case over mailings, officesPolitical | 124 hits | 8:35 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The federal NDP may have lost its final legal bid for judicial review of decisions by the House of Commons management body that left the party on the hook for as much as $2.7 million. Trudeau says he thinks Liberals will pick up seats in AlbertaPolitical | 247 hits | 12:31 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
With only 100 days left until the election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes his chances of picking up seats in Alberta. Canada to compensate 718 victims of gay purge
Some victims of the federal government's gay purge were so devastated by the experience that even decades later they needed the help of a therapist to fill out forms to receive financial compensation, says the lawyer who led a successful class action.AOC's top aide admits Green New Deal about the economy, not climate
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing” -- a remark likely to fuel Republican claims th
Political | 245 hits | 12:37 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing” -- a remark likely to fuel Republican claims th Opposition parties blame Trudeau government for ‘chaos’ in Canadian militaryPolitical | 196 hits | 11:32 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Paul Wynnyk's departure as vice-chief of the defence staff, effective Aug. 9, is the latest blow to the Canadian military, whose top ranks have been in a perpetual state of upheaval since Mark Norman was suspended as second-in-command. 'Appalling': John McCallum pitches China on helping re-elect Trudeau LiberalsPolitical | 162 hits | 4:11 PM on Wednesday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Threats allegedly made against Shuswap movie theatre staff prompt cancellation of anti-abortion filmPolitical | 198 hits | 11:51 AM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder loses job after viral Trump cartoon
A Canadian cartoonist says he lost his job after his illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral. Who authorized that election ad' Under new rules website owners must know before they displayPolitical | 264 hits | 12:39 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Canadians are facing a bewildering patchwork of approaches to online election ads as websites across the country struggle to adapt to new federal elections rules that come into effect today. Why China sees Canada as a chickenPolitical | 174 hits | 11:12 AM on Sunday | posted by Freakinoldguy
RCMP launch hate crime probe of leader of nationalist group vying for party status in federal electionPolitical | 124 hits | 11:43 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
RCMP in Saskatchewan have launched an investigation into an online video featuring the head of an extremist group that's poised to become Canada's next official political party. Ottawa unveils anti-racism strategy, which includes definition of IslamophobiaPolitical | 178 hits | 2:35 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The three-year strategy fulfils key recommendations from a parliamentary committee study that arose from a controversial anti-Islamophobia motion, M-103 Feds spend $275 million on $40-billion LNG Canada project including cash to buy gas turbinesPolitical | 174 hits | 3:22 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The contribution will include $220 million for LNG Canada to buy highly efficient gas turbines and $55 million to replace a bridge in Kitimat. Ottawa to put $13M toward projects to honour lives of MMIWGPolitical | 184 hits | 3:21 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The federal government will provide more than $13 million for community-led projects to help honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Senate passes environmental assessment billPolitical | 155 hits | 12:09 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A pair of controversial environmental bills, including the environmental assessment bill, scaled their final hurdle in the Senate on Thursday over the objections of critics who warn the two pieces of legislation will kneecap Canada's oil industry and fuel Trudeau promises to legislate implementation of UNDRIP if re-electedPolitical | 147 hits | 11:08 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that a re-elected Liberal government will introduce legislation to ensure federal laws are harmonized with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Elections Canada already paid social media ‘influencers’ before scrapping campaignPolitical | 137 hits | 5:22 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
That comes on the heels of a report by the Canadian Press Thursday afternoon that the independent agency is scrapping the plan. Liberals will not ban guns until the coming electionsPolitical | 127 hits | 12:08 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Canadian Minister of Organized Crime Reduction and Border Security, Bill Blair says that measures must be taken to address gun violence in Canada but that no ban or other regulation will be voted before the coming federal elections. NDP eyes sweeping healthcare coverage and universal pharmacare for 2019 federal electionPolitical | 155 hits | 9:51 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Money from taxes on the wealthy and closing tax loopholes will pay for commitments to health care, housing and climate change Trudeau to apologize to Italians mistreated in Canada during WWIIPolitical | 190 hits | 2:09 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Justin Trudeau said that during WWII, Italian-Canadian families and businesses struggled and no one was held responsible. KINSELLA: Trudeau's 'genocide' comment sparks international probePolitical | 169 hits | 10:09 PM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Genocide.That’s what the Prime Minister of Canada says Canada is guilty of — the crime of crimes.That’s what the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal called it, too, when passing judgment on Jean Kambanda, who overs KINSELLA: Trudeau's 'genocide' comment sparks international probePolitical | 163 hits | 10:07 PM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Chrétien willing to visit China to talk trade Political | 147 hits | 6:36 AM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Jean Chrétien is willing to go to China to negotiate an end to Canada's diplomatic impasse with Beijing if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asks him, according to the former prime minister's spokesman. Federal Liberals solicited funds from U.S. and U.K. Facebook audiencesPolitical | 173 hits | 4:47 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Official says the ads were placed in error and the party is working with Facebook to determine how foreign audiences were asked to donate to the Liberals. Elections Canada enlists 13 social media 'influencers' in $650,000 campaign
Elections Canada is launching a $650,000 campaign that will enlist 13 ‘influencers,’ including YouTubers, social media stars and a gamer, to help get out the youth vote in this fall’s federal election. Trudeau says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to 'genocide'Political | 170 hits | 3:59 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government accepts that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across Canada in recent decades amount to a genocide. Asylum seekers sue to have access to subsidized daycaresPolitical | 266 hits | 11:26 PM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
China tells Canada of 'consequences' of helping U.S. with Huawei case
China says Canada needs to be aware of the consequences of aiding the United States in a case involving the Chinese tech giant Huawei that is believed to have sparked the detentions of two Canadians in China. New Green MP Paul Manly denies links to 9/11 truther movement after comments resurfacePolitical | 137 hits | 4:36 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Green Party MP-elect Paul Manly openly questioned the "corporate media's" coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks during two podcast appearances before entering politics. Wilson-Raybould, Philpott to seek re-election as Independent MPsPolitical | 138 hits | 10:52 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Former cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott will seek re-election as Independent candidates in the fall election campaign. Ontario Liberal MPs eye 'soda tax' idea for October election campaignPolitical | 272 hits | 8:04 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A "sugar sweetened beverages levy" or what is more commonly known as a soda tax, is included in a list of Ontario caucus priorities obtained by CBC News. Minister vows transparency over $600M media fund, defends inclusion of UniforPolitical | 167 hits | 11:36 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The minister responsible for overseeing the rollout of nearly $600 million in subsidies to select media outlets is vowing that the decision-making process for who will be getting this funding will be transparent. Journalists question Liberal government's $600M media bailout planPolitical | 201 hits | 9:03 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The federal government's plan to support Canadian journalism is being questioned by some Canadian journalists.British PM Theresa May says she'll resign on June 7
Prime Minister Theresa May says she will step down on June 7, succumbing to calls in her governing Conservative Party to make way for a new leader to try to break an impasse over Britain's departure from the European Union.
Prime Minister Theresa May says she will step down on June 7, succumbing to calls in her governing Conservative Party to make way for a new leader to try to break an impasse over Britain's departure from the European Union. In reversal, Jason Kenney now says Alberta can live with amended C-69 environmental assessment bill
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the leaders of the three other provincial parties are offering an olive branch to the Trudeau government on C-69, saying they're now prepared to accept the controversial overhaul of Canada's enviro 74-year-old woman pushed to ground by police outside Trudeau-attended fundraiserPolitical | 167 hits | 9:23 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A 74-year-old woman was knocked to the ground by a Vancouver police officer during an anti-pipeline protest outside a Liberal Party fundraiser attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Scheer presents Conservative plan to fight 'evil scourge' of human traffickingPolitical | 147 hits | 12:17 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising funding for police, survivor services and public awareness to combat human trafficking. Audits of federal government's performance cancelled due to insufficient funding, AG tells committeePolitical | 321 hits | 10:51 AM on Thursday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Senators defeat Ottawa's oil tanker ban bill in rare move, putting legislation on life support
The move does not immediately kill the oil tanker moratorium, but a vote by the senate to adopt the committee recommendations would stop the legislation Trudeau leaves House before MPs unanimously pass motion apologizing to Mark NormanPolitical | 357 hits | 11:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Two-thirds of Canadians oppose provinces battling carbon taxPolitical | 362 hits | 7:44 AM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
Opposition calls for emergency debate on prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman
Opposition MPs are calling for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on National Defence to hold an emergency meeting on the government’s conduct in the investigation and prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, CTV News has learned.2 main parties vying for hearts of India's 897 million voters
Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of 6-week-long national elections, marked by a highly acrimonious campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flaying the opposition Congress party rival Rahul Gandh's family for the country's ills.
Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of 6-week-long national elections, marked by a highly acrimonious campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flaying the opposition Congress party rival Rahul Gandh's family for the country's ills. Don Martin: The fall guy could be the general who suspended Mark Norman | CTV NewsPolitical | 190 hits | 9:37 AM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
The vindication of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman comes with a potential casualty, writes Don Martin. Scheer government would ban Huawei from 5G networksPolitical | 252 hits | 1:08 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
“As Mr. Scheer has said in the past, he believes Huawei poses a threat to Canada’s national security,” the Conservative leader’s director of communications said. Charge being dropped against Mark Norman would be major victory for senior naval officerPolitical | 217 hits | 10:05 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The announcement will end the government’s two-year legal battle against Norman and heads off what would have been a politically explosive trial for the LiberalsAbortions after six weeks will now be illegal in Georgia
Political | 227 hits | 10:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by Freakinoldguy
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