OTTAWA — Gerald Butts isn’t comfortable with talking about himself. The prime minister’s former principal secretary has been keeping a low profile since his March testimony on the SNC-Lavalin affair, a controversy he says took on an “outsized importance” compared to other issues at the time. In an exclusive interview on HuffPost Canada’s “Follow-Up” podcast, […]
OTTAWA — Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s longtime friend and adviser, will not be replicating his role in the next election campaign, he told HuffPost Canada’s “Follow-Up” podcast. In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview — his first since the SNC-Lavalin affair erupted — Butts said he intends to move on from politics and join the […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally submitted to the Senate the nomination of Kelly Craft to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Craft serves as the U.S. ambassador to Canada. In February, Trump had said he had selected Craft for the U.N. job. Craft, a Kentucky native, was a member […]
OTTAWA — The commissioner of the National Hockey League hit back Wednesday at the notion of banning any kind of head contact in hockey, telling a parliamentary panel that such a rule would be impossible to enforce and lead to the end of hitting in hockey. The league has faced calls to penalize any head […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is claiming the Liberal government lacks a “real” climate plan, despite its implementation of a carbon pricing system to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Scheer told reporters Monday that he “absolutely” sees a link between climate change and the flooding that has wreaked havoc in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick in recent […]
OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh rejects the notion that he’s a political lightweight. “I don’t buy that,” the NDP leader said in an interview Friday. He begins listing reasons why: he was a member of the Ontario legislature for eight years, served as deputy NDP House leader and was considered the “third most prolific speaker” in […]
AIRDRIE, Alta. — The mother of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki has shed a lot of tears over the past year and that didn’t change as the family finally returned to its newly renovated home Saturday. Michelle Straschnitzki was handed a box of tissues by her husband, Tom, as the entire clan walked into […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t close the door Sunday on using federal dollars to help relocate communities facing the recurring threat of severe flooding. Flooding in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario has forced the evacuation of thousands, and threatened more property as water continues to rise with peaks not expected along the Ottawa […]
Victoria wants to eliminate public transit fares for everyone in the region to encourage more ridership and reduce the impacts of climate change. Mayor Lisa Helps will bring a motion to the regional transit commission Monday, asking it to embrace a policy of phasing out user fees and expanding bus service to meet an anticipated […]
CHARLOTTETOWN — The leader of the Prince Edward Island party poised to form the Island’s next government isn’t sounding much like his tough-talking counterparts in Alberta and Ontario, preferring the gentle “Island way” over the politics of confrontation. Dennis King’s Progressive Conservatives won the most seats in the provincial election Tuesday, and he’s aiming to […]