Brigitte Tousignant
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News, Politics
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March 29th 2019
A former Quebec government scientist who was fired for blowing the whistle on the influence of the pesticide industry on public policy is planning to make a political run for the leadership of his professional order.
In May 2009, scientist Louis Robert was 15 minutes away from entering a conference room to give a lecture about phosphorus when he got a phone call from his boss ordering him to call it off.
Jaclyn Corin, 18, who helped organize March for Our Lives, told the Broadbent Progress Summit in Ottawa that a Canadian gun group has been acting like the NRA in its campaign against Dr. Najma Ahmed, a Toronto surgeon.
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former attorney general, warned Canada's top civil servant against political interference in a 17-minute phone call last December, less than a month before she was demoted in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet.
Canada’s foreign affairs minister says attacks by white supremacists and other far-right groups threaten Canada’s stability and should be the primary focus of the international community’s counter-terrorism effort, including by stopping the spread of hate online.
If Mike Layton succeeds, Toronto City Council could be the first and largest Canadian municipality to sue Big Oil for the increasing costs of climate change.
