Tag: Politics

Canada’s In A Corner Over The Meng Wanzhou Case, With No Good Options | CBC News

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Scarcely 24 hours after U.S. prosecutors sent on the evidence they’d gathered in support of extraditing Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland wasn’t even trying to put a gloss on the parlous state of Canada-China relations. “It is absolutely the case that we face a challenging situation with China now,” Freeland told reporters as she left cabinet Tuesday. “Our government is extremely focused on addressing that situation.” Read full story here: Canada’s In A Corner Over The Meng Wanzhou Case, With No Good Options | CBC News

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With Trump As Commander-in-Chief, Canada’s Dithering On Procurement Becomes Intolerable | CBC News

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Defence procurement is the government promise that keeps on rebooting. At the moment, Canada is preparing to purchase 25 second-hand F-18 fighter jets from Australia — pending U.S. approval —as a stop-gap measure until it can replace its fleet with new jets. The earlier plan was to buy 18 used jets, making this the roughly zillionth update to Canada’s defence procurement plan. This de facto refusal to truly modernize our fighter jet fleet will make Canada look like the runt compared to our allies. And by “allies,” I am referring mainly to…

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Budget Says Some Paper Currency Will No Longer Be Legal Tender – Politics – CBC News

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The Liberal government announced Tuesday — in an item buried deep in its 367-page 2018 budget document — that some paper currency will no longer be accepted as legal tender. The $1000 bank note will no longer be legal tender, pending the introduction of legislative changes. The Bank of Canada will still accept the bills for an exchange. (Bank of Canada) While the Bank of Canada stopped printing the $1,000 note in 2000, there are still about 700,000 of those bills still in circulation across the country. As part of a plan…

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Dreams Of A Gender-Neutral O Canada Are Over — For Now – Politics – CBC News

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Canadians will not be singing a gender-neutral national anthem on Canada Day after a bill before Parliament to officially change the lyrics has stalled. The House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a private member’s bill last summer that would alter the national anthem by replacing “in all thy sons command” with “in all of us command” as part of a push to strike gendered language from O Canada. Although the bill sailed through the House with government approval, Conservative senators opposed to the changes have scored a victory in the Red Chamber. A yearlong campaign successfully punted…

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CBRM Mayoral Candidates Raked In Business Donations Under ‘Wild West’ Rules – Nova Scotia – CBC News

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Close to 60 per cent of campaign donations in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s 2016 election came from businesses and unions, a CBC News investigation has found. That’s a higher rate than the Halifax Regional Municipality, where only 37 per cent of donations came from those sources. Unlike provincial and federal elections, municipal elections in Nova Scotia have no restrictions on who can donate, or how much. “The question is whether a reasonable person looking at it would think there is a potential to be influenced,” said Guy Giorno, an…

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Newly minted Conservatives hope to help stop Leitch, O’Leary – Nova Scotia – CBC News

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It was the desire to oppose candidates — not support one — that prompted Kelly Maher to join a political party for the first time in her life. The Halifax resident said she recently joined the Conservative Party of Canada because she wanted to try to stop two leadership candidates in particular from winning the race in May. Fourteen people are vying to replace former prime minister Stephen Harper as party leader. “If [Kellie] Leitch and [Kevin] O’Leary are some of the front-runners then I would want to do what I can to…

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