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Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- At the LCBO liquor store near Parliament in Ottawa, an employee was carefully removing bottles of E&J brandy, an American label, from the shelves [...]

Shoppers opted for bottles of Jackson-Triggs Sauvignon Blanc and Canadian-brewed Coors Light as they vowed, ‘I am not buying American’, At the LCBO liquor store near Parliament in Ottawa, an employee was carefully removing bottles of E&J brandy, an American label, from the shelves and stacking them gently in a [...]

Philippe Dufresne launched his investigation in response to a complaint from a woman who found that her ex-boyfriend had uploaded an intimate video of her to Aylo’s porn sites without her consent, A major Canadian porn operator is facing court action from the federal privacy commissioner to ensure that everyone appearing in sex videos on its sites has consented to them being [...]

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says it is also studying new guide released by UN refugee agency on assessing asylum claims linked to climate change, Canada’s immigration department may soon need to factor in climate change when deciding whether to deport some asylum seekers to their home countries, an internal government document suggests. The analysis [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Canada's immigration department may soon need to factor in climate change when deciding whether to deport some asylum seekers to their home countries, an [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- A First Nation in Quebec that mounted a court challenge to plans for a nuclear-waste storage site near the Ottawa River has succeeded in [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff TTAWA -- A First Nation in Quebec that mounted a court challenge to plans for a nuclear-waste storage site near the Ottawa River has succeeded in [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Heritage Minister Pascale StOnge is proposing that the CBC's public funding almost double, in a bid to bolster the public broadcaster and end its [...]

Pascale St-Onge calls for new mandate for the public broadcaster to legally enshrine funding on a per capita basis, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is proposing that the CBC’s public funding almost double, in a bid to bolster the public broadcaster and end its reliance on advertising. Ms. St-Onge published [...]

Federal Court partially grants Kebaowek First Nation’s application for judicial review of decision to authorize construction of nuclear-waste storage facility at Chalk River Laboratories site, A First Nation in Quebec that mounted a court challenge to plans for a nuclear-waste storage site near the Ottawa River has succeeded in forcing fresh consultations on the green-lit [...]

Pascale St-Onge’s proposals expected to emphasize need to continue support for local news to ensure all regions in Canada are covered by reporters, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is set to unveil a blueprint for the future of CBC and Radio-Canada on Thursday to underpin the government’s support for the public broadcaster as a [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Canadian immigration officers have been given broader powers to cancel travel permits and visitor visas under new rules designed to bolster border security and [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Ottawa is eyeing fresh ways to ban the export of live horses to Japan for slaughter to produce an expensive sashimi delicacy, after the [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The civil war in Sudan was called the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world" by the African Union on Tuesday, as the ruinous conflict [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The civil war in Sudan was called the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world" by the African Union on Tuesday, as the ruinous conflict [...]

Pair are the latest senior Liberal MPs to say they are not seeking re-election in this year’s general election, Justice Minister Arif Virani and International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced Monday they are not running in the next election. They are the latest in a string of senior Liberal [...]

Lawyers and refugee groups say the failure to admit Gazans is based on security concerns while Ottawa says processing times may vary, Almost 5,000 Palestinians who applied last year to take part in a special Ottawa program to help them flee war-torn Gaza and join relatives in Canada have been deemed eligible [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Almost 5,000 Palestinians who applied last year to take part in a special Ottawa program to help them flee war-torn Gaza and join relatives [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government is facing calls to suspend a long-standing agreement with the U.S. to return asylum seekers at the border, with immigration experts [...]

Immigration lawyers and refugee advocates say Donald Trump’s policies that make it easier to deport asylum seekers without a court hearing and increase detention may breach international law, The federal government is facing calls to suspend a long-standing agreement with the U.S. to return asylum seekers at the border, with immigration experts saying the United States should no [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff When Greg Fergus took over as Speaker of the House of Commons in October, 2023, the House's chief curator asked which pictures he would like to [...]

If you visit the Speaker’s office, Yousuf Karsh’s iconic black-and-white photo stares out at you. Look deeper around the Hill, and there are more hidden gems to see, When Greg Fergus took over as Speaker of the House of Commons in October, 2023, the House’s chief curator asked which pictures he would like to hang on the walls [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The new head of CBC/Radio Canada, in her first public speech since taking the post three weeks ago, says dissolving the CBC would be [...]

Marie-Philippe Bouchard said that ‘change is coming’ at the CBC and she is currently touring the country to listen to a variety of voices, The new head of CBC/Radio Canada, in her first public speech since taking the post three weeks ago, says dissolving the CBC would be a tragedy and have a devastating [...]

The migrant was apprehended in December as part of an intelligence operation designed to disrupt human smuggling, A migrant who attempted to enter Canada illegally from the U.S. by jumping off a moving freight train was apprehended last month, along with two smugglers, in an intelligence operation [...]

Funding for the CBC is likely to become a wedge issue between the Liberals who support continued public funding and the Conservatives who want to defund it, Ottawa’s plans to sustain funding for the CBC, and update its mandate, have been derailed by the prorogation of Parliament, with the future of the public broadcaster unlikely to be [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Ottawa's plans to sustain funding for the CBC, and update its mandate, have been derailed by the prorogation of Parliament, with the future of [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff Immigration Minister Marc Miller is offering an incentive to provinces and territories to accept asylum seekers, saying he may allow them to select more economic migrants [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien says that President Donald Trump's executive order that the U.S. government will only recognize male and female genders from [...]

Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien to meet with Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly to discuss how order will affect Safe Third Country Agreement, Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien says that President https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/donald-trump/executive order that the U.S. government will only recognize https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-donald-trump-to-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaim-there/from now on is “highly disturbing,” with worrying implications for members of the [...]

President signed executive orders Monday meant to tighten up immigration rules, including bolstering the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. President https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/donald-trump/’s raft of policy changes on his first day in office, including rolling back rights of transgender people and ending citizenship as a birthright in the United States, [...]

Canadian transgender advocates want Ottawa to clarify whether Canadian passports with a gender-neutral X will still be recognized at U.S. border crossings, and to ensure that trans travellers will be permitted to enter the U.S., Canada’s transgender advocates are calling on Ottawa to provide a safe haven to gender-diverse residents of the United States after President Donald Trump signed an executive order saying Washington now [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF, STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA, MONTEBELLO, QUE. -- U.S. President Donald Trump's raft of policy changes on his first day in office, including rolling back rights of transgender people [...]

The bill is meant to reverse a change by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in 2009 that stripped children of a Canadian parent born outside Canada of their automatic right to citizenship, Ottawa’s failure to pass a bill granting citizenship to Lost Canadians – children born abroad to foreign-born Canadians – could lead to thousands of people whose parents have never been [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Ottawa's failure to pass a bill granting citizenship to Lost Canadians - children born abroad to foreign-born Canadians - could lead to thousands of [...]

Smugglers are openly advertising their services on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, with posts promoting ‘safe’ routes to the U.S. and some claiming there will be no police checkpoints, “Canada to USA. Safe Reach,” the Facebook post says. “No police. Low price. Payment after reach.” “Canada to USA. Safe Game. Cheapest in Market. 100-per-cent guarantee,” reads a post on [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- 'Canada to USA. Safe Reach,' the Facebook post says. 'No police. Low price. Payment after reach.' 'Canada to USA. Safe Game. Cheapest in Market. [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Close to 50,000 international students who received study permits to come to Canada were reported as "no-shows" at the colleges and universities where they [...]

Hizb ut-Tahrir has faced restrictions, including on public meetings, in many countries, including in Germany, Pakistan, India and Turkey, A fundamentalist Islamist group has cancelled its plans to hold a conference on establishing a caliphate governed by Islamic religious law after concern was expressed by the Public Safety Minister [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Former federal heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez, who is running for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party, is facing questions about his decision to [...]

The 2022 meeting was declared in the lobbying register by Lisa Kirbie, who told The Globe and Mail she did not breach any lobbying rules and conducted herself correctly, Former federal heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez, who is running for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party, is facing questions about his decision to hold a meeting with an Ottawa [...]

Legislation that sought to prohibit zoos from acquiring or breeding elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans is one of 26 bills that had not passed the steps required to become law when Parliament was prorogued, A bid by the Liberal government to ban zoos from keeping elephants and great apes has been quashed by the sudden halt of parliamentary proceedings, to the disappointment of animal-welfare [...]

OTTAWA -- A bid by the Liberal government to ban zoos from keeping elephants and great apes has been quashed by the sudden halt of parliamentary proceedings, to the disappointment [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Ottawa is facing calls to follow Britain's lead and list fundamentalist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist entity in Canada. Jewish leaders fear [...]

Opposition parties pledge to defeat Liberal confidence motion shortly after Parliament returns, which would trigger election, 10:15 p.m. Mark Carney says he is considering running for Liberal leadership after Trudeau resignation – James Bradshaw Former central banker Mark Carney said he is considering running to replace [...]

Bills had yet to pass the parliamentary stages needed to become law when Parliament prorogued, Twenty-six government bills – including one designed to make voting easier in a general election – have been stopped in their tracks with the halting of Parliament. The bills had [...]

Every Liberal MP in power today and every potential Liberal leadership contender fighting for the top job helped Justin Trudeau break the country over the last nine years. Pierre Poilievre, [...], From thanks to criticism, opposition leaders, premiers and former Liberal MPs share their thoughts on Trudeau’s exit

Unable to keep up with a rise in claims, the Immigration and Refugee Board’s case backlog has quadrupled in two years, and experts warn that without more resources, claimants will have to wait even longer for case decisions, A backlog of 267,000 cases at the tribunal that hears asylum claims in Canada risks rising even further if a predicted influx of asylum claimants crosses the border from the [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF, YANG SUN OTTAWA, TORONTO -- A backlog of 267,000 cases at the tribunal that hears asylum claims in Canada risks rising even further if a predicted influx [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- MPs in the Atlantic Liberal caucus have increased the pressure on Justin Trudeau to resign by making public a letter they sent to him [...]