Morgan Sharp
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News, Politics
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December 11th 2018
A leaked audio recording appears to show that a contender for the leadership of Alberta's newly-formed United Conservative Party was pushed into running to foil the efforts of a top rival to eventual contest winner Jason Kenney.
The House of Commons ethics committee demanded Tuesday that right-wing group Ontario Proud hand over information about its out-of-province funding and reveal details about the telemarketing firm it used to blast out millions of texts and phone calls during the last provincial campaign.
Construction of a new University of Montreal science campus in one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods is putting a squeeze on housing as 10,000 students and workers are expected to flood the area.
Indigenous journalists do the job differently, and they always have. That's what Tristan Ahtone, Simon Moya-Smith, Angela Sterritt, Candis Callison and Julian Noisecat told National Observer's Emilee Gilpin when she asked about their experiences in the industry and their predictions for the future of a steadily shifting media landscape in North America. Here's what they had to say.
Emilee Gilpin
News, Entertainment, US News, Politics, Culture
| December 11th 2018
Alberta is asking for private companies to put forward expressions of interest in building new refining capacity in the oil-producing province, one of several steps to deal with what Premier Rachel Notley called "an extraordinary and punishing oil price crisis."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has contacted Chinese authorities about the detention of a sometime Canadian diplomat in China at a time of intensifying tensions between the two countries.
A top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei has been released on $10 million bail and must agree to wear an electronic tracking device while she is also monitored by two employees of a company that provides surveillance using former police and military personnel.
In an internal memo circulated within the Interior Department earlier this year, government scientists issued a stark warning: The Trump administration’s plans to allow oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could further jeopardize the region’s already fragile polar bear population.
