The Guardian: Canada NewsPierre Trudeau Trudeau faces rough road as Canada's minority parties lay out their conditionsThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoAfter eking out a win in the first major test of his popularity since sweeping to power in 2015, Justin Trudeau was given his first taste of minority government on Tuesday, as rival party leaders begin
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News The Guardian view on the Canadian election: a win for Trudeau, but not a triumphThe Guardian - EditorialFour years ago, Justin Trudeau promised his country “sunny ways”. This time there was no euphoria; simply relief, as the Liberals lost the popular vote but hung on as a minority government, just ahead
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanada Canada election 2019: full resultsThe Guardian - Seán Clarke and Cath LevettPrime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party lost 20 seats, while its main opposition rivals the Conservatives gained 26. But the Liberals retained enough seats to form a minority government. Meanwhile,
The Guardian: Canada NewsPeople's Party of Canada Justin Trudeau's victory is a death knell for Canada's fledgling far-rightThe Guardian - Martin Patriquin in MontrealLiberal supporters trickled into the party headquarters in downtown Montreal on Monday night, apparently worried that they were about to witness an electoral comeuppance for Justin Trudeau. Yet any jitters
The Guardian: Canada NewsJustin Trudeau Canada elections: Trudeau wins narrow victory to form minority governmentThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoJustin Trudeau has won a second term as Canada’s prime minister after the country’s federal election, but his narrow victory means he will lead a minority government that will be forced to depend on other
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Tight Canada election may offer power-broker role to smaller partiesThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoAs Canadians head to the polls on Monday, Justin Trudeau is bracing for the possibility of an electoral loss, marking a stunning turn of fortunes for the charismatic Liberal leader who had pledged to the
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News McDonald's get their scampi in a bunch over burger joint's Effing Filet O' FishThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoWhen Canadian chef Paul Shufelt decided to market a new burger at his Edmonton restaurant, he wanted to pay homage to the fast-food greats that have come before him – not find himself embroiled in a legal
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Justin Trudeau is a fake progressive. Now Canada must vote for real onesThe Guardian - Martin LukacsHow far Justin Trudeau’s star has fallen. In 2015, the rise of this hopey-changey wunderkind was supposed to usher in a bold new Canadian era: democratic reform, ambitious climate action, a plan to tackle
The Guardian: Canada NewsJustin Trudeau Canada election: can Trudeau excite young voters let down by broken promises?The Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoIn an election defined by mudslinging and racist dog-whistling, Justin Trudeau stood apart. In a country weary of nearly a decade of Conservative rule, Canada’s Liberal leader was a sunny optimist promising
The Guardian: Canada NewsNews (U.S.) British family deported after saying they accidentally crossed US borderGuardian US - Associated PressFamily of seven were detained for nearly two weeks after crossing into Washington state, saying they were trying to avoid an animal in the road Lawyers for a British family who made an unauthorized crossing
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Obama endorses Trudeau: 'The world needs his progressive leadership'The Guardian - Associated Press in TorontoBarack Obama has urged Canadians to re-elect Justin Trudeau, an apparently unprecedented endorsement of a candidate in a Canadian election by a former American president. Obama tweeted on Wednesday that
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News #WhatsYourExcuse: Canadian teen with terminal cancer urges others to voteThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoAfter receiving a devastating diagnosis of terminal cancer last week, an 18-year old Canadian woman is using her final days to inspire her fellow citizens to vote in the country’s upcoming election. Maddison
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Fred Herzog obituaryThe Guardian - Sean O’HaganFred Herzog, who has died aged 88, was belatedly acknowledged as a pioneer of colour photography. He was given his first major exhibition in 2007 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, when he was 76. Many of images
The Guardian: Canada NewsOil Alberta tipped for Tory landslide amid resentment over Trudeau's oil policyThe Guardian - David Agren in CalgaryRobyn Moser still remembers the bidding wars for mansions when Calgary’s oil economy roared. In her best years – the decade before a 2014 crash in petroleum prices – Moser would sell more than 75 luxury
The Guardian: Canada NewsBernardine Evaristo Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authorsThe Guardian - Alison FloodThe Booker prize judges’ decision to break the rules and jointly award the prize to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo has been criticised, with detractors pointing out that the first black woman
The Guardian: Canada NewsJustin Trudeau Threat to Justin Trudeau ‘troubling’ sign, say rivalsThe Guardian - ReutersThe main rivals to Canada’s Liberal prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said a threat that forced him to wear a bulletproof vest at an election rally was a concerning sign for the country’s democracy. Trudeau
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Scandal on all sides as Canada heads for ‘election of discontent’The Guardian - Kareem Shaheen in MontrealMelissa Mollen Dupuis watched from the sidelines as Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist, led hundreds of thousands of protesters in a climate strike through central Montreal last month.
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News ‘Stupid, but it works’: satirical candidate brings levity to Canada electionThe Guardian - Tracey Lindeman in OttawaIn the Quebec riding of Beauce, Maxime Bernier is bringing badly needed levity to Canada’s looming federal election. Not the Maxime Bernier who leads the populist rightwing People’s party of Canada most
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Toronto Syrian restaurant owners defy death threats to stay openThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoA popular Syrian restaurant in Toronto which had been due to close after its owners received a wave of death threats will stay open after an outpouring of support from neighbours and local businesses,
The Guardian: Canada NewsBirds Two-thirds of bird species in North America could vanish in climate crisisThe Guardian - Emily Holden in WashingtonTwo-thirds of bird species in North America are at risk of extinction because of the climate crisis, according to a new report from researchers at the Audubon Society, a leading US conservation group.
The Guardian: Canada NewsAndrew Scheer Canada: why Doug Ford is kryptonite for Conservatives' election hopesThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoWhen a brash businessman-turned-politician won a majority government in Canada’s most populous province in 2018, Conservatives in the country wondered if they could ride a similar populist wave to national
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Canada leaders' debate: tarnished Trudeau puts climate crisis at heart of electionThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoOn a crowded stage where debate often devolved into a cacophony of crosstalk, Canada’s federal leaders – including a fringe far-right candidate – have sought to sway voters before the country’s election.
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Trudeau appeal could block billions in compensation to Indigenous childrenThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoThe government of Justin Trudeau will appeal a court ruling that found Indigenous youth were “wilfully and recklessly” harmed under national child welfare policies, in a move that could block billions
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News How Canada’s far right is using anti-Muslim propaganda to target TrudeauThe Guardian - Martin Patriquin in MontrealThe video shows a bearded imam purportedly heralding a plan by Justin Trudeau to implement sharia law in Canada, before cutting to an image of the prime minister sitting cross-legged in prayer amid a of
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Prosecutors say ex-Taliban hostage intentionally tried to mislead courtThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in OttawaThe testimony of Joshua Boyle, the former Afghanistan hostage on trial for assaulting his wife, was intentionally crafted to mislead the court, prosecutors have argued in closing arguments. Crown lawyers
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Prosecutors slam 'fictional' testimony of man accused of abusing wife after Taliban ordealThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in OttawaCanadian prosecutors have described Joshua Boyle as manipulative and abusive, dismissing the former hostage’s testimony as a “fictional, self-serving narrative” as the crown began its closing arguments
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Lawyers for former Taliban hostage say he’s ‘not easy to like’ but didn’t abuse wifeThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in OttawaThe Canadian man who spent five years as a hostage in Afghanistan with his American wife, is “arrogant” and “argumentative”– but is nonetheless not guilty of abusing his wife, defence lawyers have argued,
The Guardian: Canada NewsKam McLeod Canadian fugitives who murdered three planned to kill more, say policeThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoThe two fugitives responsible for a frantic manhunt across Canada recorded video confessions for the murders of three people – and planned for more victims before killing themselves, police revealed Friday.
The Guardian: Canada NewsGreta Thunberg Greta Thunberg meets Justin Trudeau amid climate strikes: 'He is not doing enough'The Guardian - Guardian staff and agencies in MontrealThe activist Greta Thunberg has urged Justin Trudeau and other world leaders to do more for the environment as she led half a million protesters in Montreal as part of a global wave of “climate strikes.”
The Guardian: Canada NewsCanadian News Toronto van attack suspect says he was 'radicalized' online by 'incels'The Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoThe man accused of killing 10 people by ploughing his van onto a crowded Toronto sidewalk has admitted that he was a violent misogynist who was radicalized online, in a video that was made public on Friday.
