Political watchers in British Columbia say Andrew Wilkinson’s election campaign has gone completely off-the-rails after a leaked video showed a BC Liberal candidate sharing sexist and derogatory anecdotes about a female BC NDP candidate.
Tenants get rent relief in Ottawa’s second round of COVID-19 supports for businesses
Under revisions announced Friday, rent relief will run through tenants instead of landlords, and would apply to both rent and interest on commercial mortgages. Freeland also suggested that the assistance would be based on need, so the amount of support a business receives would go up and down as its revenue decreases and increases.
Food banks prepare for Thanksgiving as demand soars amid coronavirus pandemic
Statistics Canada says food insecurity in households across the country has been significantly higher during COVID-19 and has affected nearly one in seven Canadians.
U.S. government won't say why it allows Canadians to fly to U.S. despite border closure
It's a quirky rule that has confounded many people: while the Canada-U.S. land border is closed to non-essential traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians can still fly to the United States for leisure travel.
New Democrats promise radically different vision for long-term care of elderly
Horwath released a 17-page plan to spend to spend billions more to create “small communities that feel like home” with more employees to guarantee each resident 4.1 hours of hands-on care daily and up to 50,000 new beds by 2030 to clear a waiting list that now has 38,000 names. Care now averages 2.75 hours daily.
Trudeau, Trump discuss coronavirus, detained Canadians during phone call: readout
The readout also says Trump and Trudeau discussed “the ongoing efforts to manage the pandemic and keep citizens in both countries safe.”
According to the readout, the leaders also discussed the detention of two Canadian men — former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor.
Nigerians take to the streets in mass protests against controversial police unit accused of brutality
The nationwide protests were a culmination of weeks of anger and outcry online by the country's young people over claims of kidnapping, harassment and extortion by a police unit known as the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS)
Election officials annulled Kyrgyzstan’s October election. Here’s why.
Here is what has happened. Election Day saw numerous reports of irregularities, including vote-buying schemes and busloads of people shipped in to vote at strategic locations where they had been fraudulently registered.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
The Armenian defence ministry accused Azerbaijan of shelling a settlement inside Armenia, while ethnic Armenian forces in Karabakh alleged that Azeri forces had launched a new offensive five minutes after the truce took hold and killed two civilians.
Spanish PM urges end to COVID feud as far-right protests
Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appealed for unity on Saturday after the far-right Vox party said it would take legal action against a partial lockdown imposed on Madrid to contain one of Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreaks.
Liberals filibuster opposition motion to get details of Trudeau family's speaking fees
The Liberals dragged out the committee’s proceedings through lengthy speeches and repeated requests to adjourn. Finally, after four and a half hours, the meeting adjourned without a vote on the motion after a Bloc Québécois MP joined with the Liberals in voting to adjourn.
Ontario waited weeks to trigger restrictions while COVID-19 spread. Did changes come too late?
As the weeks passed and summer turned to fall, those alarms rang louder and louder. Clinicians, epidemiologists and hospital leaders all started sharing other concerning metrics — including rising demand for testing, spikes in hospital admissions, long-term care outbreaks — and pushed Ontario to take action.