Tag Archives: Tells

In a phone call on February 2 — a few days after the self-styled Freedom Convoy set up in downtown Ottawa — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Anita Vandenbeld, the Liberal MP for Ottawa West–Nepean. As an MP from the affected area, Vandenbeld was relaying what her constituents were …

In a blunt and blistering resignation letter, Green Party President Lorraine Rekmans announced she has quit in frustration and says the party’s dream “is dead.”  Laying it out over three pages, Rekmans called her tenure as party president “turbulent.”  Rekmans took the job a year ago; the Greens were in meltdown after an attempt to …

Not far from the roar of the midway, a special exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition quietly combines art and technology to give visitors a sense of the history and culture of a First Nations community. That community, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, is known in Toronto because its traditional …

The federal government has made a national apology to a Saskatchewan First Nation community for a scheme that breached treaty and fiduciary agreements by creating a farm colony that took over the nation’s land and contributed to the assimilation of Indigenous people. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller delivered the apology on behalf of the federal …

Russian space officials told their U.S. counterparts that Moscow expects to remain on the International Space Station (ISS) at least until their own outpost in orbit is built in 2028, NASA’s space operations chief told Reuters. The assurance on Tuesday from Russia came after the newly appointed head of its …

British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd feared that the person who was harassing and extorting her wouldcontinue for the rest of her life, and there was nothing she could do to stop it, a Crown attorney told B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday. Kristen LeNoble showed the court a Facebook post that …

A Crown attorney says British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd was lured, harassed and extorted with online messages demanding she perform sexual “shows,” or videos of her would be sent to her family and classmates. In closing arguments at the B.C. Supreme Court trial of Dutchman Aydin Coban, Kristen LeNoble told …

Commonwealth leaders, meeting for the first time in four years, discussed food security and the risk of starvation as Canada’s foreign affairs minister sought to lay the blame for the impending crisis at the feet of Russia. “What is clear to us is that Russia is weaponizing food, and putting …