Teresa Wright
About Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright is a national award-winning Canadian journalist with more than 16 years of experience covering local, regional and national news with a particular focus on politics and policy. Most recently, Wright worked as a national online journalist for Global News covering health care. Prior to that, she worked for three years with the parliamentary bureau of The Canadian Press in Ottawa, where she covered national politics. Wright also taught journalism at Holland College in Prince Edward Island and worked for over a decade at The Guardian newspaper in Prince Edward Island as chief political reporter. Wright specializes in digging into how government decisions and world events affect everyday Canadians and the lives of the most vulnerable.
Trudeau thanks Canadians for standing up for each other as counter-tariffs begin
As the country celebrates Canada Day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on the road highlighting the stand he has taken against the U.S. government's decision to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum products.
Baloney Meter: Are a majority of asylum seekers to Canada doomed to rejection?
"Trudeau and other politicians must realize the real-life consequences of their words when it comes to immigration. It is not compassionate nor prudent to give these individuals false hope when we know that the majority of the asylum claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board will eventually be rejected." — Conservative MP Michelle Rempel. CP tests this and a reply for accuracy.
Trump sends letter to Trudeau calling for increase in NATO defence spending
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to attend the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels, U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on Canada to meet the alliance's defence spending targets.
Security tight in Ottawa for Canada Day, but officials promise quicker lines
Officials are promising shorter queue times for Canada Day festivities in the nation's capital this year, but heavy security measures will once again force revellers to endure enhanced screening and tightly controlled access to Parliament Hill.
Canada faces mounting pressure to end safe third country agreement with U.S.
The Canadian government is facing mounting pressure to suspend its Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States amid concerns over child migrants being detained at the U.S. border but the pact has long been widely panned by refugee law experts and advocates.
Trudeau calls U.S. child migrant policy 'wrong' and 'unacceptable'
"I can’t imagine what the families who are living through this are enduring," said the prime minister, adding "this is not the way we do things in Canada."
Trudeau says he won't 'play politics' on U.S. migrant children policy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will not "play politics" over immigration policies when it comes to the controversial U.S. practice of charging and separating illegal migrants from their children when they cross the border into the United States.
Sweeping list of recommendations calls for better economic outcomes for women
A Commons committee that spent over a year looking at economic barriers facing Canadian women has released a sweeping list of recommendations it believes could provide a path toward full equality for women.
Iranians facing higher delays for permanent residency than other nationalities
Amin Jafari Sojahrood says he felt at home right away in Canada after arriving from Iran to study biomedical physics.
Asylum-seeker claims to be processed faster: immigration minister
Asylum seekers who cross unofficially into Canada — only to wait many months for their refugee claims to be processed — may find their cases finalized sooner as a result of federal changes announced Friday.