Peter Rakobowchuk
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News, Politics
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August 8th 2018
Saudi students in Canadian universities have been given four weeks to pack their bags and leave the country, two senior university officials said on Tuesday, August 7, 2018.
Probably the strangest attempt at retaliation came when Saudi bots started tweeting in support of Quebec independence, implying that Saudi Arabia could have meddled in Canada’s internal affairs during the 1995 referendum, but gracefully chose not to.
The sudden deterioration in the Saudi-Canadian relationship is likely grabbing the attention of people in the city of London, Ont., more than anywhere else in the country.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau doubled down on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, on Ottawa's message that the federal government will continue to stand up for Canadian values even as it finds itself at the centre of an ongoing diplomatic tumult with Saudi Arabia.
That afternoon we stood on her roof watching a cloud of smoke from a distant fire, grow closer, and the firefighters’ helicopters and planes began to fly right over her house, to refill with water from Kokkina Limonaki, writes Cate Whittemore. She called a neighbour who lived in the direction of the smoke, to offer her refuge.
Ontario launched its buck-a-beer plan on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, by offering "non-financial incentives" to brewers who sell their beer for $1, prompting critics to question the Progressive Conservative government's priorities and accuse the province of trying to deflect scrutiny on key issues such as education and the environment.
The Trudeau Liberals are offering Indigenous communities $30 million in prize money as part of a contest that could end up rewriting the rules about how the federal government funds badly needed housing on-reserve.
After years of criticism from the Indigenous community, BMO has removed two stone plaques from the facade of a building in Montreal's tourist sector that commemorated the killing of an Iroquois chief in 1644.
