Quebec Liberal caucus wants Trudeau to resign: sources
Quebec MPs are adding to the pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step aside as leader. The province’s caucus chair, Stéphane Lauzon, consulted with...
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RCMP asks for help handling troubling number of kids radicalizing online
When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs. Now the Mountie says there’s...
Passengers facing flight disruptions could get more protections under Canadian proposals
The Canadian Transportation Agency, the quasi-judicial tribunal and regulator tasked with enforcing air passenger rights and compensation rules, has unveiled proposed amendments to the Air Passenger...
Drug precursors the new ‘primary threat’ entering Canada as fentanyl imports drop
With criminal networks shifting to domestic production of fentanyl and other opioids, the focus at Canada’s borders has now shifted to the chemicals used to...
Canada’s debt charges are ballooning as Freeland tables a gloomy fall economic statement
The cost to service the federal government’s sizeable debtload will spike in the years ahead — and those public debt charges will eat up much...
Judge tells jurors in trial of ex-RCMP official accused of leaking secrets to use ‘common sense’
The judge presiding over an unprecedented national security trial reminded the jury Friday that they can believe “some, none or all” of the testimony they’ve heard...
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, who faced controversy over claims to Indigenous ancestry, withdraws from Order of Canada
Prominent scholar and former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has been dropped from the Order of Canada....
As Alberta threatens to pull out of CPP, Freeland calls a meeting with other finance ministers
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday she would convene a meeting with her provincial and territorial counterparts later this week to discuss Alberta’s proposal to...
Ottawa says lawyers don’t deserve $80 million for First Nation child welfare settlement
Ottawa wants to pay class action lawyers roughly half the amount they’re requesting in legal fees for a multi-billion dollar First Nations child welfare compensation...
Did Trudeau just undermine his signature climate policy, or save it?
On paper, economists generally agree that a price on carbon has to be an integral part of any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In...