Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has decided Canada needs a plastics registry.
But what he isn’t telling you is that while it may be possible to track the production of plastics, it is well-nigh impossible to detect where these materials are sent for disposal.
Defence Minister Bill Blair says the first ten of 50 Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) promised to Ukraine last year will be delivered to the war-torn country by this summer, but likely won’t be fully in service until the fall.
… The remarks from the defence minister come a week after a leading Ukrainian politician met with Blair and a number of Canadian lawmakers and pleaded for more armoured vehicles.
Oleksandra Ustinova, the head of Ukraine’s special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, told the minister, members of key House of Commons committees and military leaders that both time and weapons stocks are running out for her country.
The issue of temporary foreign workers being used to build the NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor has bubbled up again with the Canadian Building Trades Union requesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene in the dispute and the federal Conservatives planning to raise the issue on Parliament Hill.
CBTU executive director Sean Strickland penned a letter to Trudeau earlier this month claiming an increasing number of temporary foreign workers were being used in Windsor. The federal Conservatives also announced Friday they plan to press the issue at the Government Operations’ Committee meeting this week.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canadian government has proposed a new budget, including $42 million in additional funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
The increased subsides are purportedly to ensure that “Canadians across the country, including rural, remote, Indigenous, and minority language communities, have access to high-quality, independent journalism and entertainment.”
Because nothing fosters “independent journalism” like having the government pay your bills! Canadian taxpayers rejoice!
You couldn’t blame Prime Minister Justin Trudeau if he’s been feeling as downcast and rejected as a hapless magician hired for the children’s party. I mean, what hasn’t he done for the young folk?! In a series of spending and program announcements this month all aimed at Millennials and Gen Z adults, he’s performed the political equivalent of pulling rabbits out of his top hat, making animal balloons, doing the never-ending handkerchief trick with his sleeve, with the grand finale of releasing doves. And what’s the audience reaction? They’re on their phones, watching YouTube videos of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
Federal funding promises can shape how much, or how fast, provinces advance their own agenda items, and Alberta wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to know that his to-do list will have to wait.
Premier Danielle Smith announced that the province would take steps, through a bill introduced this month, to reinforce the work that she contends is most important to Albertans and to her United Conservative Party government. This latest attempt to square off with the federal government in Ottawa continues to deepen her party’s view that Mr. Trudeau, a Liberal, has thrust his ideological agenda onto Albertans.
The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Iran’s minister of defence and its general staff.
On February 3, she announced that Canada would impose sanctions on both leaders of Hamas involved in the October 7 massacre and extremist Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
But there’s an important difference between the sanctions announced against Palestinians and Iranians and the ones announced against Israelis — the ones against Israelis have not been gazetted and therefore never took effect.
Joly’s appointment is an embarrassment to all sides in the current conflict.
Many Canadians have heard enough from Justin Trudeau, but Americans are a different story
Talking to Americans got a lot of laughs when comedian Rick Mercer was doing his TV shows two decades ago. For Justin Trudeau right now, talking to Americans is part of a serious communication strategy, aimed at putting the Canadian prime minister in front of wider audiences.
Trudeau has been doing a flurry of podcasts in recent days, two of them based in the United States: one for the Freakonomics series, another for the Vox news program, Today, Explained. One of my colleagues joked this week that this is the Liberal reply to Pierre Poilievre’s fondness for slogans: when the Conservative leader goes short and snappy, Trudeau goes long form.
Talking to Americans to win Canadian hearts and minds says even your bought media is tired of the charade.
It’s never much fun to watch someone fall from grace – unless, of course, the fallen never had much grace to start with.
Chrystia Freeland is many things, but, at least in her public roles, graceful has never been her hallmark.
OTTAWA — Conservatives are hoping to grill former central banker Mark Carney during a House of Commons committee meeting on the carbon tax and affordability, arguing that he may be a future contender for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he is staying on as leader of his party, the ongoing speculation about Carney’s political prospects has only intensified in recent months, and more so after he delivered a speech Monday evening during which he criticized the federal budget.
Nearly nine million Canadians lived in food insecure households in 2022, with 22.9 per cent of the population reporting some form of food insecurity, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday.
The data agency wrote in its annual Canadian Income Survey that 8.7 million people lived in households that reported some kind of food insecurity.
That was an increase of almost 1.8 million people from the previous year, when the rate was 18.4 per cent. It marked the second consecutive year of increases since the pandemic began.
Real output per capita has fallen to seven per cent below its long-term trend since the pandemic, resulting in a decline of roughly $4,200 per person, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.
To reverse the trend, GDP per capita, a metric used by economists together with other economic indicators to evaluate a country’s standard of living, would need to grow at an average yearly rate of 1.7 per cent, authors Carter McCormack and Weimin Wang found.
Is home ownership only for the rich now? 80% say yes in new poll
The cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians is only getting more bleak, according to new polling that shows everything from buying a first home to affording groceries has gotten harder in the past year.
On Friday, Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News showed that four in five Canadians (80 per cent) now feel that owning a home is only for the rich. That’s 11 points higher than a similar poll from just over a year ago in March 2023.
Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’
Food banks in Canada are being pushed to the brink with high demand and donations not keeping pace. Experts say it’s unsustainable.
The last four years have been financially tumultuous for Canadians. A global pandemic and rampant inflation have led to high grocery prices, with more and more people finding themselves unable to afford the basics.
But what happens when donations to help are not keeping up with demand?
