‘Tough to take’: New Brunswick grabs unwanted title as Canada’s poorest province | CBC News
“Wow. That’s tough to take,” said Steeves in an interview Tuesday.
Canada’s Newsmaker Of The Year? Jody Wilson-Raybould, Of Course
OTTAWA — The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau
two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public
servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the
centre of it all — Jody Wilson-Raybould — is the 2019 Newsmaker of the Year.
The former justice minister was the runaway choice of news editors across the country surveyed by The Canadian Press.
Europe Threatens Border Adjustment Tariff for Climate Laggards Like U.S. – The Energy Mix
“By imposing tariffs on goods from the U.S. and other countries that lack tough climate policies, the Europeans would help their own industries avoid being handicapped by the EU’s greenhouse gas efforts,” Politico explains. “But if they hit the U.S., they would risk a worsening trade war with the Trump administration, which has already threatened hefty tariffs on goods such as French champagne and German autos over a range of competition disputes.”
Tories Mull Quick Leadership Race Amid Fight Over Scheer’s Use Of Party Funds
Dan Nowlan, who oversaw the 2017 leadership contest that ended in a photo-finish victory for Andrew Scheer, also says it’s disappointing that the party’s longtime executive director isn’t going to have a formal role to play in that process.
A new leadership race for the party informally started last week after Scheer announced his intention to resign. It was a move that wasn’t entirely unexpected, coming after months of both behind-the-scenes and very public pressure linked to his failure to win power in October.
But that all took a back seat to accusations that surfaced early last week that he’d used party funds to cover the costs of sending his kids to private school.
A Federal Court of Appeal ruling in August 2018 quashed the initial approval of the pipeline expansion and forced the federal government to revisit the last stage of consultation with First Nations.