politics

The lawyer for a former Bloc Quebecois MP who lost her riding by a single vote in the April federal election says a do-over is required. Source link

The federal Liberals plan to create a new financial crimes agency to tackle online scams as part of a national anti-fraud strategy, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced on Monday. Source link

Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable. Source link

B.C. Premier David Eby is ruling out new retaliatory measures against the United States after it slapped an additional tariff on softwood lumber, but the B.C. government will maintain countermeasures already in place. Source link

Defence Minister David McGuinty says the question of irritants in Canada-U.S. defence talks is “maybe a bit of a misnomer” and the two countries are working together on shared initiatives like integrated air missile defence systems. Source link

Five days before Donald Trump was inaugurated, Justin Trudeau gathered the premiers to discuss the coming crisis. Seated to Trudeau’s right, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said it was “truly a Team Canada approach we’re taking.” Almost exactly nine months later, it is harder to see a united front. Source link

The Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which was listed as a terrorist organization in Canada in September, appears to have adopted a new public relations strategy designed to present it to the South Asian community as a group with principles that only extorts from those who deserve it, while leaving decent, hard-working people alone. Source link