Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under the microscope after Canada’s ethics commissioner launched an investigation into reports that his office interfered in the criminal case against SNC-Lavalin. This comes after the Globe and Mail published a report Feb. 7 alleging officials in the Prime Minister’s Office had tried to pressure former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to get […]
The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted on Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption. The guilty verdict against the kingpin, whose […]
No one was injured as fire ripped through a townhouse in Peterborough’s south end early Tuesday. Around 1:30 a.m., Peterborough Fire Services found flames shooting out of an upper window at the back of a two-storey townhouse complex on Sydenham Road. Acting platoon chief Scott Stanlick says the fire was quickly extinguished and contained to […]
When President Donald Trump first called the media “enemy of the people” last year, it elicited outrage. Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake said it was an example of an “unprecedented” and “unwarranted” White House assault on the free press. The second, third and fourth times Mr Trump used the phrase, it barely merited a shrug. […]
Regional inequality is often cited to explain just about every challenge the United States faces: political conflict, joblessness, drug overdoses, even the decline of marriage. Conventional wisdom holds that regions are diverging economically in drastic fashion, and many are raising alarms that fewer people are moving from small towns to prosperous cities. Research confirms that […]
A supporter of US President Donald Trump has attacked a BBC cameraman at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. Sporting a Make America Great Again cap, the man shoved and swore at the BBC’s Ron Skeans and other news crews before being pulled away. Mr Skeans said the “very hard shove” came from his […]
OTTAWA – Three years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised a national youth policy, the federal government is still trying to determine what it should include. Trudeau appointed himself the minister for youth in his cabinet in 2015 and in the following year’s budget promised a national youth policy to make sure young people’s needs […]
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has announced she is running for president in 2020. Ms Klobuchar made the announcement from her home state of Minnesota, with heavy snow swirling as she spoke to supporters. “As your president, I will look you in the eye, I will tell you what I think, I will focus on getting […]
WASHINGTON (AFP, BLOOMBERG) – United States President Donald Trump on Monday (Feb 11) ordered the US administration to give greater priority to artificial intelligence, a move seen as firing up a battle for leadership with China. The American AI Initiative executive order calls for the administration to “devote the full resources of the federal government” […]
The Saskatchewan NDP is raising concerns over the Saskatchewan Party’s relationship with Quebec engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin. On Monday, NDP leader Ryan Meili said he wants to see the province review past contracts awarded to SNC-Lavalin. Related Liberal MP Wayne Long calls for investigation into alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case Meili also called for a […]