Murray Wood: Conservative floor crossers could hand Mark Carney a majority government
Murray Wood says Prime Minister Mark Carney is happily accepting floor crossers from the Conservatives, but maybe it's t...
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The COVID-19 fiscal snapshot: By the numbers
OTTAWA - Estimated federal deficit for 2020-21: $343.2 billion Direct federal aid to individuals and businesses as a result of COVID-19: $212 billion Number of Canadians who were laid off or had their...
Jul 08, 2020
Federal website advertising hundreds of non-existent student-volunteer positions
OTTAWA - The federal website advertising volunteer positions for students hoping to earn money for their educations through a $900-million government aid program contains hundreds of positions th...
Jul 08, 2020
Ontario overestimated cost of services to irregular border crossers, AG finds
TORONTO - Ontario significantly overstated the costs of providing services to asylum seekers coming into Canada from the United States, the province's auditor general said Wednesday. In a special repo...
Jul 08, 2020
Singh calls on Trudeau to address systemic racism in police forces
OTTAWA - If the Rideau Hall intruder had been a person of colour, the outcome of last week's events in Ottawa would have been very different, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday. Singh, speak...
Jul 08, 2020
U.S., Mexican presidents meet at White House to talk USMCA, without Canada
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump promised an absent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau some in-person presidential face time Wednesday as the U.S. commander-in-chief and his Mexican counterpart went ahead celebra...
Jul 08, 2020
Auditor finds $2.4B in unpaid student loans, calls for stronger recovery efforts
OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general has called for the federal government to step up its recovery of outstanding student loans to keep taxpayers from being left on the hook after discovering that $...
Jul 08, 2020
Court: Some employers can refuse to offer free birth control
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favour of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousa...
Jul 08, 2020
Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students
BOSTON - Colleges and universities pushed back Wednesday against the Trump administration's decision to make international students leave the country if they plan on taking classes entirely online thi...
Jul 08, 2020
Almost 35,000 people pegged for removal from Canada evade border agency
OTTAWA - Canada's border agency has failed to promptly remove most of the people under orders to leave the country, and in tens of thousands of cases it has simply lost track of them, the federal audi...
Jul 08, 2020
Fox's Carlson criticized for saying Democrats hate America
NEW YORK - Television's most popular political host, Tucker Carlson, says leaders of the Democratic party should be disqualified from running the country because they "despise" it. That led the Biden ...
Jul 08, 2020
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