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Canada’s senior public servant has invited his provincial and territorial counterparts to apply for top secret-level security clearance as a way of fostering “healthy, transparent dialogue” on foreign interference and other threats. In a July 11 letter to the heads of public services across the country, John Hannaford, clerk of the Privy Council, said that…
After Monday’s emergency debate in Parliament about the killings of six First Nations people by police over a two-week span, an NDP MP says the time for talking is over. Nunavut MP Lori Idlout said she thought there were some productive ideas brought forward in the debate including better training in de-escalation for RCMP and more cultural competency,…
Politics The Liberal government says it will slash the number of international student visas it issues by another 10 per cent. Liberal government to slash number of permits by 10 per cent Anja Karadeglija · The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 18, 2024 1:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago Immigration, Refugees and…
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…
Parliamentarians return for the fall sitting today after a heated summer drastically altered the dynamics in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be leading an unstable minority government in the wake of last week’s announcement by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to end the supply-and-confidence agreement that had ensured the Liberal government’s survival for more…
Members of Parliament all receive the same base salary — $203,100 — but some spend much less time on their feet in the House of Commons than others. Using data provided by the House of Commons, Radio-Canada ranked all 338 MPs on the number of times they’ve spoken in the Commons or exercised their right to vote in the current session of Parliament. The amount of…
The curtain will come down on the Paris’ feel-good summer with a grand parade of French athletes on the Champs-Élysées on Saturday as the country throws one last party to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Parade of Champions will include 182 French Olympic representatives, including 78 medallists, and 137 Paralympic participants with 50…
As It Happens6:00Can pigeons guide missiles? Can dead trout swim? Ig Nobels celebrate weirdest research The man who first documented homosexual necrophilia between two mallard ducks stood at a podium on Thursday in front of a panel of revered Nobel laureates, and held up the taxidermied remains of the befouled fowl in question. “This is…
The affidavit of an FBI special agent, and the Russian documents attached to it, offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a vast Russian network of disinformation. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two Russians — both employees of state broadcaster RT — accused of illegally funnelling $9.7 million into a Tennessee media company….
The Bloc Québécois says its ready to wheel and deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party for support during confidence votes now that the Liberal government’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the NDP has ended. That support won’t come cheap, the Quebec-based Bloc said, and the sovereigntist party led by Yves-François Blanchet has already drawn up a…
