Trudeau urges caution to ensure foreign influence registry doesn’t target diasporas
Trudeau is urging caution in the face of growing calls for Canada to adopt a registry to track foreign influence efforts
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Strike to begin Wednesday if no deal reached: federal public service union
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Telford says national security limits what she can say on foreign interference
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Trudeau’s chief of staff set to testify in foreign interference probe
A committee tasked with studying alleged foreign interference in Canada’s last two elections is set to hear from the prime minister’s chief of staff today
B.C. Chinese communities tell Mendicino of intimidation by foreign powers and proxies
Mendicino says Chinese community members in Vancouver have told him of “intimidation, harassment and abuse” linked to foreign governments or their proxies, confirming the need for a foreign agent registry
Members of public service union vote in favour of federal strike mandate
Members of the public service’s largest union, which represents more than 120,000 federal workers, have voted in favour of a strike mandate
Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 4.5%, bumps up growth forecast for 2023
The Bank of Canada is once again holding its key interest rate steady at 4.5 per cent but isn’t ruling out the possibility of more rate hikes down the line
Poll suggests Canadians feel less safe than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic hit
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CEO, board of Trudeau Foundation resign, citing recent politicization of their work
OTTAWA — The CEO and most members of the board of directors for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation said Tuesday…
Trudeau announces new military aid, bilateral agreements during Ukraine PM’s visit
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Ukrainian prime minister expected to appeal for more aid during visit to Canada today
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Toronto this morning
Hydro-Québec says some ice storm power outages will not be fixed before Tuesday
50,000 Hydro-Québec customers should see their power restored by the end of day on Sunday, the utility said while warning some of its remaining repairs to lines damaged by last week’s deadly ice storm may not be completed until Tuesday
Once-popular rural Quebec road for asylum seekers quiets down after U.S.-Canada deal
About 12 hours after the closure of a rural southern Quebec road used by thousands of asylum seekers to enter Canada from the United States, Evelyne Bouchard witnessed RCMP agents escort a family of four people off her property
Vancouver police deployed to end tent encampment in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver police have dispatched officers to a tent encampment on the city’s Downtown Eastside with the aim of shutting down the site to campers.
Feds back away from timeline for law to make First Nations policing essential service
The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.
Trump makes history, pleading not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records
Donald Trump relaunched his 2024 campaign Tuesday, just hours after becoming the first former U.S. president to confront felony charges in what prosecutors allege was a hush-money scheme to protect his reputation before the 2016 election.
French envoy: Canada should link with Europe, surpass ‘weak’ military engagement
France’s ambassador to Canada says Ottawa must choose between tying itself entirely to Washington or broadening its links to partner more with Europe — while also calling out Canada’s “weak” military engagement.
B.C. to spend billions on plan to build more homes to ease housing crisis
The British Columbia government has introduced a multibillion-dollar plan to construct more homes as quickly as possible in an attempt to build its way out of the housing crisis