Payette joins a very short list of governors general who have left the post early, but is the first to do so mired in controversy. Her decision to leave will have both political and practical consequences for the minority Liberal government.
The pair couldn't earn enough to afford Ottawa's rental market, and unknowingly brought the virus from long-term care into the shelter, Dr. Jeff Turnbull told the commission on Dec. 16.
Two months after the City of Ottawa scrambled to expand its COVID-19 testing options to deal with a massive spike in demand, it is now set to cut back on hours at testing sites this weekend because far fewer people are showing up for a swab.
The political silence in Ottawa was deafening on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, after Donald Trump's bombastic declarations of victory in the U.S. presidential election and his threat to take his re-election fight to the Supreme Court.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has some tough choices to make as he decides which businesses can reopen while the province reports a single-day record in new coronavirus cases.
Online platforms like Netflix and Spotify may end up spending more than $800 million on Canadian content over the next three years under a series of policy changes the federal government has proposed.
The logging industry continues to cut faster than Canada's managed forests can keep up with. The resulting flood of CO2 is a rapidly growing climate threat, Barry Saxifrage writes, and Ottawa needs new climate policies to rein it in.