The House of Commons will rise for the summer Thursday afternoon, after unanimously voting to push through some final pieces of legislation, including the government’s controversial lawful access bill. MPs will return Sept. 21. During the final days of the spring session, the House also passed a trio of justice bills to reform bail, create…
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OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s Liberal government is using its majority to expedite the adoption of some controversial bills in the last week of sitting in the House of Commons, just before MPs head off to their constituencies for the barbecue circuit this summer. Read More
Trump is bringing TKO Group Holdings Inc.’s Ultimate Fighting Championship to the South Lawn of the White House Sunday evening. The event helps kick off Trump’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the US, complete with a commemorative gold coin bearing his likeness, a huge fair on the National Mall and, in August, an IndyCar…
Trump, though very unlike his predecessors, is an extension of the boomer domination of the American presidency. The boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, had their first president in Bill Clinton, born August 1946. He was succeeded by the one-month-older George W. Bush, born July 1946. Trump, slightly older still, is the third two-term president…
An Indigenous woman from Winnipeg who killed her best friend and roommate in a drunk driving accident three years ago will be allowed to serve her sentence at home, largely because of her racial background and “life circumstances … shaped by a history of trauma and discrimination,” a judge ruled last month. Read More
The daily question period in the House of Commons generally subtracts from the sum of human knowledge, and Tuesday’s episode was an absolute belter in terms of confusing anyone watching. Read More
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that the Gordie Howe International Bridge poised to connect Ontario and Michigan will open “at the end of the week,” but a statement from the White House is raising questions about whether that will actually happen. Speaking briefly to reporters on his way into a cabinet meeting on Parliament…