Justin Trudeau

The Canadian government is directly investing in women-owned businesses as part of its $2 billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. Introduced in the 2018 federal budget, the strategy aims to support women in entrepreneurship and double the number of women who own businesses in Canada by 2025.

Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.

Just when the prime minister was escaping the political controversy swirling in the nation's capital — at least for a few hours — Mother Nature let him know she had other plans.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doubled down on Thursday, explaining that there was no inappropriate pressure on his former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, but taking responsibility for an erosion of trust between her and his office over the past few months.

On Dec. 5, 2018, Jody Wilson-Raybould met for dinner with Gerald Butts at a luxurious downtown Ottawa hotel. Roughly three months later, both are out of their former jobs, and the highly-disputed nature of that dinner sits at the centre of the largest political scandal the Trudeau government has faced.

Justin Trudeau hunkered down in the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, as he awaited what Liberals hope will be pivotal testimony on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, from his former principal secretary.

A prominent chief is urging SNC-Lavalin lawyer Frank Iacobucci to resign his position as special envoy to First Nations for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Trans Mountain expansion project. Iacoubucci's name popped up a couple of times in bombshell testimony on Feb. 27 by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to divert attention from the disunity in Liberal ranks at a climate change rally in Toronto on Monday, but ran into protests about his government's treatment of Indigenous sovereignty and support for pipelines as well as against the meat industry as a major cause of pollution and environmental degradation.

Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, one of the stars of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, has resigned as a minister over the SNC-Lavalin scandal

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Speaking to reporters in Toronto Thursday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau responded a day after former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, gave a damning testimony in front of the House of Commons justice committee, which implicated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Morneau, and their respective staff,

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau picked his old school in Montreal as the setting as he began a counter-attack Wednesday evening in the SNC Lavalin affair — a setting that underlined some of the interprovincial tensions in the controversy, with many Quebeckers believing that government was right to use drastic measures to protect thousands of jobs in the province.

A woman in Alberta says she feels like she's not Canadian enough after her daughters were denied citizenship.

Justin Trudeau told an audience of African Nova Scotians on Thursday, February 21, 2019, that an incident of apparent racial profiling on Parliament Hill shows that racism, unconscious bias and systemic discrimination still can emerge anywhere in Canada.

Canada's top civil servant said he fears "someone is going to be shot" during the upcoming federal election campaign in blunt opening comments to a committee investigating the government's role in the SNC-Lavalin controversy.