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Marie-Danielle Smith

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Reporter with The Canadian Press

25 Articles

Here are the bills federal politicians will look at next year

Parliament has begun a lengthy winter break, but more than a hundred bills are still on the table and ready to be picked up when lawmakers return to Ottawa in late January.
News, Politics | December 23rd 2022

Trudeau's year end questions from the public asked about everything from politics to mermaid sex

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that's what one person is asking him to consider.
News, Politics | December 16th 2022

Meta threatens to pull content from Facebook as Liberals pass online news bill

The House of Commons passed a Liberal bill on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content, and Meta is once again threatening to remove news content from Facebook in Canada.
News, Politics | December 15th 2022

Liberals win Mississauga-Lakeshore federal byelection

The early results from a Greater Toronto Area byelection on Monday, December 12, 2022, suggested an imminent return to government for former Ontario finance minister Charles Sousa — this time as a federal member of Parliament. 
News, Politics | December 13th 2022

Mississauga votes in federal byelection today

At first glance, Monday's, December 12, 2022, federal byelection in a coveted Greater Toronto Area riding might seem like a nail-biter.
News, Politics | December 12th 2022

China regularly intercepts Canadian military aircraft, defence staff report

China is being accused of having "regularly" intercepted a Canadian military aircraft tasked with enforcing UN sanctions against North Korea.
News, Politics | December 1st 2022

National security officials wanted threshold for Emergencies Act 'reconsidered'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser and other senior officials felt the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's threshold to determine a national threat under the Emergencies Act "should be reconsidered," a public inquiry has learned.
News, Politics | November 18th 2022

'Freedom Convoy' posed no threat to the security of Canada: CSIS director

Liberal cabinet ministers deemed last winter's "Freedom Convoy" protests a threat to national security, despite warnings from the federal intelligence agency that threshold was not met, an inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act learned on Monday, November 14, 2022.
News, Politics | November 15th 2022

'Freedom Convoy' put Canada's international reputation at stake

The "Freedom Convoy" protests that took over downtown Ottawa last winter and inspired several border blockades caused serious concerns about Canada's international reputation and its economic security, senior Canadian officials say.
News, US News, Politics | November 15th 2022

Unpacking the Emergencies Act and special powers Ottawa invoked last winter

A massive public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the "Freedom Convoy" protests.
News, Politics | November 1st 2022
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