It was out with the old Champlain Bridge and in with the new Samuel De Champlain Bridge on Friday, June 28, 2019, as one Montreal-area span was officially inaugurated while the other bid adieu after 57 years of service.
Lawyers representing SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. have opted for trial by judge alone in a corruption case that has loomed over the Montreal-based engineering giant.
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is pushing back its decision on whether to opt for a trial by jury or by judge alone in a corruption case that has tripped up the engineering giant and ensnared it in a political controversy for months.
Gender equality is under attack and, in the age of social media, it's never been easier to taunt and spread abhorrent views, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a global conference on the issue on Monday, June 3, 2019.
The federal government has postponed a long-awaited update to Canada's corporate-misconduct provisions, including changes that could help SNC-Lavalin avoid being barred from lucrative federal contracts.
Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould said on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, she never had long-term plan in mind during the SNC-Lavalin controversy that went beyond her doing the right thing in her previous role.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott's decision to run as Independents and shake up the notion of traditional party politics in Canada's parliamentary system has raised concern from political experts across the country. All agree that there is too much power in the party structure of federal politics, but the question is, how do you change a centuries old political system effectively?
The pair made separate but synchronized announcements in their ridings — Wilson-Raybould at a small community centre in Vancouver and Philpott at a farm market outside Toronto. Both urged the need for Canadian politics to have people beholden to no central authority.
The watchdog who enforces Canada's election laws says no one from the Prime Minister's Office tried to help SNC-Lavalin avoid being charged with breaking campaign-financing rules.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a bid Wednesday to mobilize old-guard Liberals in the coming federal election campaign even as he lost another of his star rookie recruits from the last campaign.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says today's federal Liberal party wouldn't accept political donations like those that got SNC-Lavalin in trouble in the late 2000s.
The federal government has backed off a controversial plan to give bureaucrats more time to respond to disabled veterans seeking benefits and support for their service-related injuries.