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While official debates in the Liberal leadership race are set for Monday and Tuesday, some of the candidates say they've been open to facing off in other arenas.But sources working on rival campaigns say perceived front-runner Mark Carney has stayed away when invited to take part.
Former media baron Conrad Black, who famously tried to sue then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in his fight to secure a British peerage, has been removed from the House of Lords over his lax attendance. House of Lords Speaker Lord John McFall announced Wednesday that a number of lords have ceased to be members of the House "by virtue of non-attendance,"...
It's an image as Canadian as anything on a coin — Mounties in their red serge dress uniforms, putting their horses through the complex paces of the renowned Musical Ride. But after more than a century of entertaining summer crowds from coast to coast, the RCMP's iconic Musical Ride is in trouble, plagued by low morale and staffing woes that...
The head of Canada's spy agency says he has a "different interpretation" of an alleged mistake in an intelligence briefing cited by the prime minister's chief of staff during testimony before the foreign interference inquiry. Katie Telford, who has served as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff since 2015, told the inquiry in April that the Canadian Security Intelligence...
Trudeau said government can't 'correct the record' without giving adversaries access to Canadian intelligence. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday that intelligence leaks to the media can't be refuted without declassifying secret information. The prime minister told the commission looking into foreign meddling in Canadian elections that revealing secret information to refute leaks would put...
Canada Elections, the watchdog that enforces Canada's federal election laws, is hampered in its ability to investigate complaints related to foreign interference in elections, an inquiry heard Thursday afternoon in Ottawa. Commissioner of Canada Elections Caroline Simard and Mylene Gigou, the director of investigations in Simard's office, laid out a laundry list of issues during their appearance before the inquiry...
As a growing number of premiers urge the federal government to pause an upcoming increase to the federal carbon tax, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back on what he called "short-term thinker" politicians and defended his government's deeply divisive policy."My job is not to be popular, although it helps," Trudeau said during a news conference in Calgary Wednesday.
As two Montreal-area Chinese groups accused of hosting clandestine Chinese government "police stations" sue the RCMP for defamation, the head of the national police service maintains his officers are acting on "credible" information. Earlier this week, the Chinese Family Services of Greater Montreal, the Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud and their executive director, Xixi Li, filed a defamation lawsuit accusing...
A high-security lab. Ebola. A mysterious package. The Chinese military. The release earlier this week of hundreds of documents related to the dismissal of two scientists — Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng — has pulled back the curtain on an explosive national security probe at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab, part of the Canadian Science Centre for...
Facing questions about how scientists who were intentionally sharing information with China were cleared to work at a Winnipeg lab studying deadly diseases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deflected criticism to his chief political rival and accused the Conservative leader of weaponizing national security. During a Thursday news conference in Thunder Bay, Ont., Trudeau was asked how scientists working on high-security...
Canada's electronic intelligence agency is warning the Canadian cyber community -- especially operators of government and critical infrastructure websites -- to be vigilant as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the country.