In this week’s Speech from the Throne, Canada’s federal Liberal government promised to support people and businesses “as long as (the pandemic) lasts, whatever it takes.” With an apparent second wave of COVID-19 cases hitting various parts of the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is extending payouts to Canadians who have lost income in […]
The Liberal government has unveiled the roadmap it says will help Canadians weather the unrelenting storm of the COVID-19 pandemic and “build back better” for a fairer, more resilient country. In the Senate chambers Wednesday, Gov. Gen. Julie Payette delivered the Liberal government’s much anticipated throne speech to mark the second session of the 43rd […]
MONTREAL — A Quebec author charged with producing child pornography in connection with fictional scenes in a horror novel has been acquitted in a ruling that also declared part of Canada’s law invalid. Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-Andre Blanchard ruled Thursday that certain articles of Canada’s child pornography laws cast too wide a net, targeting […]
FREDERICTON — A doctor who runs a private abortion clinic in Fredericton says he can’t afford to continue subsidizing the service and is leaving the practice for another job at the end of this month. Dr. Adrian Edgar says he’s applied for a contract with the military, and Clinic 554 — the former Morgentaler Clinic […]
The Trump Resistance is putting pressure on Senators to block the Republican healthcare bill—even as Senate Republicans announce that they’ll delay a vote as Sen. John McCain of Arizona recovers from surgery he had on Friday to remove a blood clot from above his eye. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) previously had to delay the […]
The White House announced Friday afternoon that Chief of Staff Reince Priebus had resigned amid mounting tensions. Some reports indicate that Priebus “privately resigned yesterday,” and Reuters was told by an anonymous official that “Trump informed Priebus two weeks ago that he would be replacing him as White House chief of staff.” President Donald Trump […]
Late Monday night, just hours after (finally) delivering his “too little, too late” condemnation of “racism…white supremacists…and hate groups”—which critics noted appeared dispassionate and forced—President Donald Trump re-tweeted a message from Jack Posobiec, a well-known right-wing racist and conspiracy theorist, who raised objections to the media’s focus on the rampage in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday […]
With tens of thousands of people displaced and many billions of dollars in estimated damages from the impacts of Hurricane Harvey, an environmental group on Tuesday filed a formal request on Tuesday to discover why the Trump administration recently decided to lift flood zone restrictions designed to mitigate these kinds of costly disasters. As Common […]
Edith Windsor, whose fight for federal recognition of her marriage to her partner of 40 years helped to strike down the anti-LGBT Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and paved the way for full marriage equality, died on Tuesday at the age of 88. Windsor married her longtime partner Thea Spyer in Canada in 2007. When […]
As Republicans look to use “deal-making” and political arm-twisting to muscle through a deeply unpopular tax plan, people in districts across the country participated in more than 100 #TrumpTaxScam demonstrations and sit-ins on Monday to protest a plan that would provide massive giveaways to corporations and the wealthiest Americans while taking “billions from the poor.” […]