National Observer

The Trudeau government is proposing to eliminate the federal agency in charge of traveller, baggage and worker security screening at airports. Buried in Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 460-page budget that was delivered Tuesday is a clause noting that the government is "transitioning the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to an independent, not-for-profit entity." 

Conservative parliamentarians banged tables and stomped their feet while Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to deliver a speech about the 2019 budget before walking out on Tuesday, with Andrew Scheer saying the budget had no legitmacy while the government was intent on shutting down an inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin affair.

The federal government plans to spend more than a billion dollars over five years to strengthen Canada’s border and speed up the processing of asylum claims and removal of failed applicants, its 2019 budget shows, as immigration heats up as an election issue.

Canada’s federal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over five years to improve the living conditions of Indigenous communities and advance self-determination and self-governance, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government seeks to renew its claim as an honest broker and trusted partner in reconciliation efforts.

The budget, the Liberal government’s last before an October election in which such efforts are expected to feature, would allocate $19.4 million over four years to launch and run a Digital Democracy Project to “support research and policy development on online disinformation in the Canadian context.”

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s last federal budget before the 2019 election shows that the Trudeau government’s deficit is about $3 billion lower than anticipated for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, but there are no signs of balancing Canada’s books in the coming years.

The Trudeau government needs to serve up more for fossil fuel industry workers who face an uncertain future if it wants to avoid a “major blowback,” says the co-chair of a federal advisory panel on the issue.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has called an election for April 16, launching a 28-day election campaign that will be focused heavily on the province’s oilpatch and its struggle to build new pipelines 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an emotional clarion call on Monday, March 18, 2019, as he urged people of all political stripes to turn the page on hateful ideology and condemn the sort of intolerance that fuelled the brutal killing of 50 Muslims in New Zealand.

The bodies of the tiny organisms lock away enormous amounts of carbon dioxide, and they’re in danger.

The Liberal-dominated justice committee has pulled the plug on its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair, prompting fresh howls of outrage from the Conservatives and NDP.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh asked his first questions in Canada's House of Commons on March 18, 2019. In doing so, he became the first racialized leader of a political party to sit in the Commons.

White-supremacist terrorism is every bit the ideological twin to ISIS jihadist terrorism. It can radicalize and inspire the same kind of narrow-minded hate, death and destruction – perhaps even more so, because it continues to benefit from the denial of people who refuse to see it as the global threat that it is.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's top civil servant, Michael Wernick, is retiring, and he's named a replacement. Wernick had been one of the key figures named by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould regarding allegations she had been inappropriately pressured to intervene in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.

The bright-eyed 46-year-old construction industry executive and environmentalist from Edmonton, Alberta spoke of his enthusiasm to be at the March 11 UN Environment Assembly to raise awareness about a treaty that declares the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle an international peace park, free from exploitation of all kinds, to protect the polar ice cap and address climate change.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Joyce Murray to be his next Treasury Board president. Trudeau promoted Murray at a minor cabinet shuffle on Monday at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, to fill the vacancy left by Jane Philpott.

The Nissan Leaf led the pack with 247 sales in January, narrowly beating the Chevy Bolt, with the Hyundai Kona, Tesla Model 3 and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV rounding out the top 5.

A human wave of chanting, sign-waving protesters made their way downtown from the base of Montreal's Mount Royal on Friday, March 15, 2019, as they joined a series of student-led marches around the world demanding that government take action on climate change.

On a particularly windy Friday afternoon, thousands of students gathered outside Canada to demand a better future. Their chants echoed through the air: “We are unstoppable. Another world is possible,” they roared.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former cabinet minister who accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of trying to influence her decision in a criminal case against engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, has confirmed she intends to run as a Liberal in the next federal election.