David Reevely
Ottawa Reporter at The Logic
Ottawa reporter for @The_Logic. The feds, Ontario, health, space, telecom. Alum of the Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press. He/his. @davidreevely.bsky.social
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1 week ago |
thelogic.co | David Reevely |Laura Osman
OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s bill to reduce internal trade impediments and hurry select “nation-building” projects through federal approvals is set to pass in the House of Commons today, despite objections from Indigenous and environmentalist groups. Here’s what you need to know about Bill C-5. Introduced on June 6, the bill has two parts. The first seeks to make good on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s campaign pledge to remove federal barriers to internal Canadian trade by Canada Day.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | David Reevely |Laura Osman
OTTAWA — Buying a full fleet of 88 F-35 fighter jets will cost $8.7 billion more than planned, and the Department of National Defence is years behind in preparations to receive the first of them, the federal auditor general said Tuesday in a new report.
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3 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | David Reevely
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney ran on promises to get big nation-building projects finished faster and to break down barriers to internal Canadian trade. On Friday, the Liberals presented the legislation, now called Bill C-5, that they hope will keep both pledges. Here’s what you need to know.
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3 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Laura Osman |David Reevely |Joanna Smith
When Alvin Fiddler thinks back to the last time the federal government took a build-fast approach to major infrastructure projects, the first thing that comes to his mind is a small island on the Ottawa River, with a view of Parliament Hill. The Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation visited Victoria Island in Ottawa in 2013, after former Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence erected a teepee on the park-like expanse and began a month-long hunger strike.
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3 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | David Reevely
Jeers rained down on legislators from the Queen’s Park gallery Wednesday afternoon as Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives passed Bill 5, which gives the government the power to put aside any other provincial law to advance designated projects in new “special economic zones.” The government insists it will not use the new authority to trample Indigenous rights, though the Chiefs of Ontario call the bill “a direct threat” to First Nations rights.
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