Facing mounting criticism, the Ontario government is hitting the pause button on its appointment of Premier Doug Ford's friend to the top job at province's police force.
The Ontario government of Doug Ford – which has already cancelled curriculum-writing sessions intended to increase Indigenous content – is now coming after cultural grants.
Warning against the "dangers of populism," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says using immigration as a wedge political issue puts Canada's future at risk.
After two weeks of bruising negotiations, officials from almost 200 countries agreed on Saturday, December 15, 2018, on universal, transparent rules that will govern efforts to cut emissions and curb global warming. Fierce disagreements on two other climate issues were kicked down the road for a year to help bridge a chasm of opinions on the best solutions.
Alberta still doesn’t have regulations in place to determine how to operate its much-vaunted “hard cap” on oilsands emissions, first announced in late 2015.
The mood was dark; the recent inauguration of a certain president cast a long shadow over all of us. I was thinking about what National Observer’s lead story would be. For the life of me, I can’t remember what the choices were. And it doesn’t matter. Because just around dinner time, the first news alert came across my computer. There had been a shooting at a mosque in Québec City.
A parliamentary committee sided this week with the commissioner’s recommendation that political parties should be brought under federal privacy laws. Despite this, the proposal failed to make it into the government’s elections reform bill which received royal assent on Thursday.
A string of politicians in Ontario and beyond have expressed outrage at the latest cut to social services from Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government after National Observer reported it was retroactively pulling back funds from the Ontario College of Midwives on Thursday. Meantime, in another part of the country, Alberta's NDP government has announced an expansion of services.
The B.C. government, First Nations and industry have come together to create a plan to shut down 10 fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago in the next three years. The move aims to protect wild salmon from parasites as they migrate.
An Ontario judge has delivered a blow to Sen. Mike Duffy in his bid for financial restitution over his dramatic and protracted suspension without pay five years ago, removing the Senate as a target in his multimillion-dollar lawsuit.
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