-
Dec 20, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Will Greaves
What a year the past few days in Canadian politics have been. On the eve of the government’s fall economic statement, Chrystia Freeland suddenly resigned after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated his plan to replace her as finance minister.
-
Nov 29, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Horatio Morgan |Paul Samson |David Moscrop |Will Greaves
As we approach Inauguration Day in the United States on January 20, 2025, we must consider the consequences of an America-First presidency under President-elect Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress. With confirmation hearings for his cabinet picks on the horizon, a significant shift in U.S. policy is imminent. Countries worldwide, particularly Canada, must prepare for an impending overhaul of economic and security relationships with the United States.
-
Nov 21, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Will Greaves |Max Fawcett
With the U.S. election now decided, what does the outcome – a re-elected Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress – mean for Canada’s foreign policy and national interests? The reality is the results are grave for many U.S. allies, including Canada, and bode poorly for international relations over the next four years and beyond. A narrow plurality of American voters have made a choice with impacts that will echo around the world.
-
Oct 18, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Alessia Passafiume |Will Greaves |Max Fawcett
First Nations chiefs have voted to reject a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal, reached in July with the Canadian government. At a special chiefs assembly in Calgary hosted by the Assembly of First Nations, 267 out of 414 chiefs voted against a resolution in support of the deal after a lengthy debate that at points was emotionally charged as they argued either for or against it.
-
Oct 18, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Dylan Robertson |Max Fawcett |Will Greaves
India's foreign ministry says Canada is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims its government officials have worked with criminal gangs in the extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens. But Canada is not the only country that has accused Indian officials of plotting an assassination on foreign soil.
-
Oct 18, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Paola Loriggio |Trevor Chittick |Will Greaves
Three tobacco giants would pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a newly proposed deal in a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. A proposed plan of arrangement developed through mediation was filed in an Ontario court Thursday after a prolonged five-year process.
-
Oct 18, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patrick Greenfield |Will Greaves
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the ocean floor, removing millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year.
-
Oct 17, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Chuck Chiang |Will Greaves |Max Fawcett
Voters along the south coast of British Columbia who have not cast their ballots yet will have to contend with heavy rain and high winds from an incoming atmospheric river weather system on election day. Environment Canada says the weather system will bring prolonged heavy rain to Metro Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound, Whistler and Vancouver Island starting Friday.
-
Oct 16, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Damian Carrington |Will Greaves |Trevor Chittick
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The destruction of global forests increased in 2023, and is higher than when 140 countries promised three years ago to halt deforestation by the end of the decade, an analysis shows. The rising demolition of the forests puts ambitions to halt the climate crisis and stem the huge worldwide losses of wildlife even further from reach, the researchers warn.
-
Oct 15, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Dylan Robertson |Will Greaves |Max Fawcett
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the Liberal Party's new campaign chair, as some MPs reportedly band together to ask their leader to step down. Trudeau and the party say Andrew Bevan, a longtime Liberal staff member and volunteer, is taking the reins ahead of the next general election. Bevan most recently served as an adviser to Trudeau and chief of staff to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, which involved helping develop this past spring's budget.
