Andrew Perez

Jan 24, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Lauren Krugel |Max Fawcett |Andrew Perez

A Catholic priest's sexual abuse of Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday. Wails and shouts could be heard in the Iqaluit courtroom where Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty to indecent assaults against six girls and one boy between 1978 and 1982. He had previously been convicted of dozens of offences against children and some adults.

Jan 21, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Andrew Perez |Max Fawcett |Chris Hatch

The field of likely candidates in the federal Liberal Party’s imminent leadership race has narrowed considerably since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his widely anticipated resignation 10 days ago. Senior cabinet ministers highly rumoured to be mounting leadership bids have bowed out of the contest, citing the importance of staying the course in their current posts amid the largest threat to Canada’s sovereignty and economic prosperity in more than 75 years.

Sep 12, 2024 | nationalobserver.com | Jeremy Appel |David Moscrop |Andrew Perez

Former Alberta energy minister Sonya Savage decried new federal anti-greenwashing provisions as “green-hushing” in a panel discussion with the leader of Canada’s preeminent oil and gas industry lobby group on Tuesday. Savage said the Competition Act regulations recently passed by the federal government muzzle companies from communicating their efforts to reduce planet-heating carbon emissions.

Sep 23, 2023 | nationalnewswatch.com | Andrew Perez

In June, violent riots overtook more than a dozen French cities after a police officer shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a French teen of Algerian and Moroccan descent who had driven through a red light while escaping police. The reaction in Canada was as predictable as it was self-assured. Many commentators said the destructive events unfolding in France could never take place in a country like Canada.

Sep 23, 2023 | theglobeandmail.com | Andrew Perez