Joan Bryden
Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Trudeau hunkers down in Ottawa after second minister resigns over SNC-Lavalin
Justin Trudeau hunkered down in the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, as he awaited what Liberals hope will be pivotal testimony on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, from his former principal secretary.
Small business to get rebates for some of the cost of energy efficiency projects
The federal government's plan to ease the carbon-price burden on small businesses will include rebate payments to cover some of the cost of making energy-efficiency upgrades.
Liberals seek to change channel from SNC-Lavalin, focus on climate plan
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground — climate change — with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.
Nathan Cullen joins long list of NDP MPs who won't seek re-election
Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP's best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits.
Wilson-Raybould warns she still can't tell full SNC-Lavalin story
Jody Wilson-Raybould finally gets the chance today to "speak her truth" about the SNC-Lavalin affair, breaking a three-week silence that has fuelled a controversy based, so far, strictly on anonymous allegations of political interference in the justice system.
Committee sets time for Wilson-Raybould testimony on SNC-Lavalin controversy
Jody Wilson-Raybould will finally give her side of the SNC-Lavalin story on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, breaking almost three weeks of silence that has fuelled the anonymously sourced controversy and shaken the Trudeau government to its core.
Trudeau tells Canadians to listen to clerk in SNC-Lavalin matter
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured on Monday, February 26, 2019, to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the prime minister and his staff pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop a criminal prosecution of Montreal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.
Wilson-Raybould wasn't pressured, is free to talk, top bureaucrat says
Canada's top bureaucrat launched a vigorous defence on Thursday, February 21, 2019, of the government's handling of the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, bluntly declaring allegations of political interference to be false and even defamatory.
Wilson-Raybould snubbed Senate committee on corporate corruption bill
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould angered senators by refusing to give testimony on a change to the Criminal Code that is now at the centre of allegations that she was improperly pressured to help SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution.