The inquiry into the Liberal government’s historic choice to invoke the Emergencies Act to quell weeks-long demonstrations against COVID-19 mandates last winter is now moving into its public policy phase. The Public Order Emergency Commission is expected to hear this week from about 50 experts who will share their perspectives on the use of the...
The inquiry probing the Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to last winter’s weeks-long “Freedom Convoy” protests has wrapped up its public fact-finding hearings. The Public Order Emergency Commission heard from more than 75 witnesses, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday, and introduced more than 7,000 documents into evidence over...
For the first time in Canada’s largest province, Ontario has five political candidates from the Filipino Canadian communities who won civic seats during the municipal elections on October 24, 2022. It was quite a promising political performance, indeed. Five of the 11 Filipino Canadians in the winning circle are from different ridings in the Greater Toronto...
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Some 55,000 education workers went on strike on Friday in Canada’s most populous province of Ontario after failing to agree with the provincial government for better pay and more frontline staff in schools. The workers, which include educational assistants, secretaries and library workers, served a notice of strike on Sunday saying they...
An investigation has found that most of the $25 million raised by the “Freedom Convoy” was either returned to donors or ended up in an escrow account awaiting the results of a civil lawsuit. The Public Order Emergency Commission, the public inquiry tasked with looking into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act during...
A senior Ottawa police officer testified Wednesday that while the federal Emergencies Act was helpful to clear “Freedom Convoy” protesters, he does not know whether it was necessary. Supt. Robert Bernier, who oversaw the Ottawa police command centre for a portion of the demonstrations last winter, his testimony before the public inquiry into federal government’s decision to invoke...
Canadians can expect some long-awaited stability in its relations with Britain with today's news that the U.K.'s former finance minister Rishi Sunak will be prime minister after two contenders -- including former PM Boris Johnson -- bowed out of the leadership contest.
The inquiry’s ultimate goal is to examine the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act three weeks into the crisis and report on whether the unprecedented move was warranted.
Vancouver’s next mayor says he expects the first of 100 additional police officers promised in his election platform to hit the streets within a year. Ken Sim, who takes office Nov. 7, said Monday that adding the officers and the same number of mental-health nurses is one of the top priorities in his party’s 94-point...