In an exclusive interview, NDP MP Christine Moore told The Canadian Press she intends to bring a defamation lawsuit against Glen Kirkland, as well as columnists Neil Macdonald, Christie Blatchford and Rosie DiManno, who reported on the matter.
Investigative news site The Lens reports that two men hired local actors to attend New Orleans City Council meetings in October and February. Participants were paid $60 to show up, clap for anti-renewable energy comments, and wear T-shirts in support of a new power plant. They were paid extra cash to read a speech.
When Alberta premier Rachel Notley called a news conference this week to announce her NDP government is spending $1.4 million on billboards and other advertising to promote the Trans Mountain pipeline, she was driving the one big story the oil industry wants, and both she and the industry won.
The environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying "dirty tar sands oil" would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.
The House of Commons breaks for a constituency week on Monday and returns May 22, which means that between now and the end of the month, the Commons sits for nine days. Legislation often takes longer than that to become law.
Doug Ford said at a leaders' debate on Friday that he would push hard for mining in Northern Ontario, home to the Ring of Fire, an area in the James Bay lowlands rich in minerals, but lacking in infrastructure and surrounded by sensitive ecological areas and First Nations.
I can assure you that I never envisioned myself as I am now - a seasoned lawyer with a few university degrees changing diapers, cleaning toilets and wondering how I got here, writes Maureen F. Fitzgerald.
The hamlet, which once had one of the highest suicide rates in the territory, hadn't seen a single such tragedy in more than a year. A community group had drawn up a forward-looking, proactive plan to keep youth safe. People breathed easier.
Half of all women in solitary confinement in Canadian prisons are Indigenous, though Indigenous women make up merely four per cent of the general female population.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he spoke to his MP, Ted Falk, but did not say whether he was reprimanded for saying that abortion was "not a right."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called a byelection for the Quebec riding of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, only days after pledging $60 million in federal funding for an aluminum-smelting project in the area.
Earlier this week, Google unveiled demos of new A.I. services that had the web abuzz, including Duplex, which would allow users to outsource the drudgery of booking appointments with businesses by phone to a virtual personal assistant.
