News/Politics (Page 141)

It was 2017 when Canadians first began to hear of an obscure border crossing near Hemmingford, Que., that was witnessing an unusually high number of illegal crossings on foot. Large numbers of Haitians, many of them families dragging heavy suitcases, were flying from homes in Florida and New York CityContinue Reading

Two Liberal MPs are holding a roundtable Friday evening in Toronto about anti-Palestinian racism, to study whether this type of discrimination should be part of the federal government’s recently updated anti-racism strategy, CBC News has learned. The move comes after one of those MPs, Scarborough Centre’s Salma Zahid, quietly threatened to quit herContinue Reading

Politics The Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF) is taking the minister of national revenue to court, arguing a decision to revoke its charitable status was “flawed and fundamentally unfair.” JNF has funded infrastructure projects on Israeli army, air and naval bases David Baxter · CBC News · Posted: Jul 26,Continue Reading

Politics For the past 150 years, the governments of Ontario and Canada have made a “mockery” of their treaty obligations to the Anishinaabe of the upper Great Lakes, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday. Unanimous decision says Crown violated revenue-sharing agreements, but does not award settlement Peter Zimonjic ·Continue Reading

Canadians are watching the U.S. election campaign with more than their usual mix of trepidation and fascination, as it careens from a near-miss assassination attempt on one candidate to an unprecedented step-aside from the other. Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either ‘”bad news” orContinue Reading

Politics·Analysis The opioid crisis is hard to solve. Partisan politics isn’t making it easierThe epidemic of opioid addiction is a real problem. And there is a real difference of opinion between Liberals and Conservatives about how the federal government should be responding to that crisis. But there is also aContinue Reading

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will take all federal dollars out of programs and facilities that use prescribed drug alternatives in perhaps his strongest commitment yet to roll back a Liberal drug program he claims is fuelling “chaos” on the country’s streets. The Tory leader said his government would focus squarelyContinue Reading

The Pentagon has released an updated Arctic strategy that warns of low-level Russian “destabilizing” activities in the Far North aimed at the United States, Canada and its allies. The 18-page assessment, released earlier this week, also points to increased naval co-operation in the region between Moscow and Beijing and promisesContinue Reading

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party has built a “strong brand across the country” — but lately, that brand appears to be doing a lot better in provincial politics than at the federal level. In British Columbia, where Singh is one of 13 B.C. NDP MPs, Premier David Eby’s New Democrats are leading in the polls heading into a generalContinue Reading