• Marie Woolf

Ottawa will direct the broadcasting regulator to scrap its requirements for foreign streaming platforms to fund local news and niche broadcasters in Canada, according to two senior government sources. The federal government is planning a series of steps that would require the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, to roll back key decisions it has made implementing the controversial...

• 2026-06-08
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22, Ottawa’s proposed lawful access legislation. In an interview, Udbhav Tiwari, Signal vice-president of strategy and global affairs, said the company has deep concerns about measures in the bill, including its potential to introduce security vulnerabilities...

• 2026-05-14
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

The Liberals are taking steps to halt debate on their flagship anti-hate bill in committee to end a prolonged Conservative filibuster on removing a religious exemption to some hate speech laws. Conservatives have said they have been inundated with expressions of concern from religious leaders who fear Bill C-9 would limit religious freedom if it becomes law. But the Liberals...

• 2026-03-07
• — CBC News

• Marie Woolf

Federal officials have drawn up plans to include a ban on social media for children under the age of 14 in the government’s coming online harms bill, part of a suite of possible measures aimed at protecting young people in the digital space, three sources told The Globe and Mail.

• 2026-01-22
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

An increasing number of Canadian TV and radio stations could close if the federal Online Streaming Act becomes a casualty of the trade war with the United States, industry leaders are warning. The act, which became law in 2023 after a bitter parliamentary battle, compels foreign platforms such as Netflix to financially support Canada’s TV, film and music sectors. Kevin...

• 2025-12-19
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

The NDP has rejected Yves Engler, an author and left-wing activist, from standing for the leadership for the party alleging he had harassed, intimidated and confronted elected officials. It also expressed concern he had echoed Russian state propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Engler was told at the end of last month that his application to join the leadership...

• 2025-12-10
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Immigration officials advised shelving a special humanitarian program, designed to help Sudanese Canadians bring family members here to escape civil war in the African country, over concerns that plans to reduce immigration could be undermined, sources say. The officials argued that bringing in Sudanese could affect the government’s immigration levels plan: annual targets that the government sets for the number...

• 2025-11-03
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Lawyers acting for jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai have launched an urgent appeal to experts at the United Nations, warning that his life is at serious and immediate risk in detention. Mr. Lai’s international legal team has presented research to UN rapporteurs showing that some other elderly patients with diabetes have died in custody in Hong Kong, after receiving...

• 2025-09-05
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Economists are urging the government to factor in the estimated 500,000 undocumented residents in Canada as it consults on its forthcoming immigration levels plan. Immigration Minister Lena Diab is consulting on targets for the number of temporary and permanent residents Canada plans to allow in the next three years, in what some consider a litmus test of Prime Minister Mark...

• 2025-08-13
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Two Canadian reporters for Iran International, a popular Persian-language news outlet, have been threatened by Iranian authorities in a bid to stop them reporting on Tehran’s regime, the organization’s legal team says. In the past six weeks, 45 journalists and 315 of their family members worldwide have been menaced by the Iranian authorities, including with death, unless they stop working...

• 2025-08-06
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

The federal government says it has spent $1.1-billion to house asylum seekers in hotels since 2017, on top of $1.5-billion it has given provinces and cities to help pay for refugee claimants’ upkeep. Ottawa began housing asylum seekers in hotels in 2017 as a temporary stop gap as shelters were overwhelmed by increasing numbers. It started block-booking rooms to help...

• 2025-07-23
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

The government’s leader in the House of Commons told the Liberal MP spearheading a drive to grant jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai honorary citizenship to shelve a motion supporting its award, just before she was about to present it on Wednesday. Judy Sgro, a veteran Liberal MP, had gained the support of MPs from all parties for a unanimous...

• 2025-06-12
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

U.S. researchers have found what they say is a late draft of a secret list of more than 700 suspected Nazi war criminals believed to have settled in Canada after the Second World War, prompting fresh calls for the federal government to finally unseal and release the full list. A research team led by UCLA historian Jared McBride, an expert...

• 2025-03-21
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Ottawa’s lobbying watchdog is planning to tighten the rules to force corporations to be more transparent about the people they are trying to influence in the federal government. In an interview at the start of her second term in office, Nancy Bélanger said one of her priorities will be to make corporations more fully register their lobbying of ministers, MPs...

• 2024-11-28
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

A United Nations special rapporteur accused Israel of aiming “to erase the Palestinians” in a Parliament Hill press conference on Tuesday that drew a backlash, including from the Israeli ambassador. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, alleged that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as a deliberate strategy.

• 2024-11-06
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Ottawa is considering buying hotels to house the growing number of asylum seekers and to cut the cost of block-booking hotel rooms to accommodate them, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says. The federal government has in the last few years taken out long leases on hotels to help provinces house thousands of refugee claimants. This year, Ottawa has been footing the...

• 2024-07-03
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Jewish advocates have raised concerns with the Justice Minister about whether he fully vetted the new head of Canada’s human rights commission after it emerged that Birju Dattani posted links on social media to articles comparing Israelis to Nazis, and Palestinians to Jews incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto.

• 2024-06-25
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

MPs on a committee investigating Islamophobia and antisemitism heard Thursday that more Muslims have been killed in targeted attacks in Canada in the past seven years than in any other G7 country, and that Islamophobia has increased exponentially since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war last October.

• 2024-06-07
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf, Matt Lundy

Canadian jobs are being lost to temporary foreign workers because of a decision years ago by the federal government to drop the need for companies to consult unions before they can bring in people from abroad to fill vacancies, Ottawa is being warned. Union leaders in the construction industry, a significantly unionized sector, say the change has meant that Canadians...

• 2024-05-20
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

The former national director of the federal NDP says Jews are no longer feeling completely comfortable in the party, warning that this is a national problem for the New Democrats. Nathan Rotman, who was also chief of staff to former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, made his remarks after former B.C. minister of postsecondary education Selina Robinson resigned from the province’s...

• 2024-03-09
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invited Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian Waffen-SS veteran who received ovations in the House of Commons during a visit by Volodymyr Zelensky, to a reception he hosted in the Ukrainian President’s honour the same day. Mr. Hunka, who was 98 at the time, did not attend the Toronto reception, but the invitation by the Prime Minister to...

• 2024-02-05
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marie Woolf

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says he plans to hold face-to-face talks with the company setting up an electric-vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., to ensure Canadians will not be sidelined in favour of foreign workers brought in to fit out the factory. Mr. Champagne said he wants to ask NextStar Energy about “the minimum amount of foreign workers we need”...

• 2023-11-25
• — The Globe and Mail