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Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez to seek Quebec Liberal leadership
By The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
OTTAWA – Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez is expected to resign from cabinet to seek the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. A federal Liberal source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed the news to The Canadian Press. It was first reported by La Presse. Rodriguez, who is also Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada has become ‘playground’ for foreign interference, Tory MP Chong tells inquiry
By The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
OTTAWA – A Conservative MP who was targeted by Beijing told a federal inquiry today that Canada has become “a playground” for foreign interference. Michael Chong, the Tory foreign affairs critic, said the federal government should shed its culture of secrecy and release more information about threats to better inform the public. Chong said while ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New Brunswick Indigenous group says Tory position on treaty rights ‘troublesome’
By The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
FREDERICTON – The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick have released results from a pre-election questionnaire sent to the province’s political parties, saying they are “particularly disappointed” with responses from the governing Progressive Conservatives. The Indigenous group, which represents six communities, says that in August the parties were sent questions on Indigenous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservatives’ non-confidence motion will make no mention of carbon price
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed he will ask the other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government next week with a non-confidence motion. A Conservative spokesperson said the motion will simply say the House has no confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government. Now that the NDP has ended ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Foreign interference inquiry resumes, Indigenous artist recognized
By The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Inquiry to hear from MPs targeted by meddling A federal inquiry into foreign interference is slated to hear today from current and former politicians who have been singled out by meddlers. Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, Conservative MP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Public inquiry to hear from current, former MPs targeted by foreign meddling
By The Canadian Press on September 18th, 2024
OTTAWA – A federal inquiry into foreign interference is slated to hear today from current and former politicians who have been singled out by meddlers. Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, Conservative MP Michael Chong and New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan have all been identified publicly as targets of interference by China. The inquiry’s latest hearings ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!16 soldiers injured in accident at Valcartier military base in Quebec
By The Canadian Press on September 17th, 2024
CFB VALCARTIER – More than a dozen soldiers were sent to hospital this afternoon after an accident at a military base in Quebec. Capt. Hermione Wilson, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, says the accident took place at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier. Wilson says the accident in the base’s training area involved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man from Phoenix, Ariz., missing after truck plunges off Yukon bridge
By The Canadian Press on September 17th, 2024
Whitehorse RCMP say a man from Phoenix, Ariz., is missing after the truck he was travelling in went off a bridge and plunged into the Yukon River. Police say the crash happened on Monday morning when a pickup truck pulling a trailer missed the Lewes River Bridge, located south of Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tories will likely get chance to introduce non-confidence motion next week
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on September 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – Next week could be the first opportunity for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to introduce a non-confidence motion asking the other parties to topple the Liberal government. Poilievre promised he would bring such a motion at the first chance he had, after the NDP ended its supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals earlier this month. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Review finds no case for formal probe of Beijing’s activities under elections law
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on September 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – The federal agency that investigates election infractions found insufficient evidence to support suggestions that Beijing wielded undue influence against the Conservatives in the Vancouver area during the 2021 federal election. A review of the lingering issue by the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections was tabled today at a public inquiry into ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Activist sues India in U.S. court over alleged plot that killed B.C. Sikh leader
By The Canadian Press on September 17th, 2024
NEW YORK – A Sikh independence activist is suing India for its alleged role in what’s described in court documents as two co-ordinated attacks, including one that resulted in the death of a temple leader in British Columbia. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, with the group Sikhs for Justice, says the civil lawsuit in the U.S. district ... Read More »
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