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Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada says her country is in dire need of armoured vehicles and hopes Canada’s plan to supply rebuilt troop carriers proceeds quickly. Yuliya Kovaliv appeared Tuesday before the House of Commons defence committee, where she fielded a series of questions about Canadian military support for Ukraine’s defence in its war with Russia. Earlier this…
In the summer of 1978, against his top political strategist’s advice, Pierre Trudeau called a full slate of byelections to fill 15 vacancies in the House of Commons, including seven seats the Liberals had won in the previous election. As recounted in John English’s Just Watch Me, the Liberal Party’s own pollster said the governing…
Health Canada authorized Moderna’s updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday to roll out in fall immunization campaigns. The federal vaccine portal lists approval of Moderna’s product. Provinces and territories plan fall immunization campaigns aiming to protect people from severe hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. Guidance from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) strongly recommends updated COVID-19 vaccinations starting this fall…
A New Democrat MP urged the House of Commons to put politics aside and find immediate policy solutions on Monday night, as legislators held an emergency debate following six incidents in just two weeks where First Nations people were killed by police. The first day of the fall parliamentary session saw MPs sit until midnight in Ottawa,…
An on-board fire, a lost propeller, and a collision with a wharf have a marine engineer at Dalhousie University wondering what the federal government is doing to ensure that Canada’s ferries are safe. Two of these acccidents happened this month. The Queen of New Westminster, which connects Vancouver Island to B.C.’s mainland, was pulled from service in…
WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Sean (Diddy) Combs faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges in an indictment, unsealed Tuesday, claiming he hit and abused women for more than a decade and presided over an empire of sexual crimes. The music mogul “engaged in…
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence. Sean (Diddy) Combs was arrested late Monday in New York, where he faces a sealed criminal indictment, prosecutors announced late Monday. Details of the charges weren’t immediately announced by prosecutors, but the hip-hop mogul has, in recent months, faced a stream of allegations by women who…
If the Conservatives want to bring the Liberal government down over the carbon tax, they won’t have the help of the Bloc Québécois, one Quebec MP says. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been pressuring the other opposition parties to help him force a “carbon tax election” this fall. To do that, Poilievre would need both…
The organization of B.C.’s local elected leaders has laid out a plan to the province for how it would like the senior level of government to shore up the finances of towns and cities to pay for escalating costs around housing, public safety and a changing climate. More than 2,200 municipal leaders, mayors and councillors from…
The need for affordable housing is a top priority for two Waterloo region MPs, as the fall sitting gets underway in the House of Commons. Green MP Mike Morrice, who represents Kitchener Centre, says while he’s heard “good rhetoric from the federal government” on the housing crisis, he will be spending his time getting them…
