On a country road near the Kenyan border town of Franklin, a five-metre long rusted steel rail marks the end of Canada and the beginning of America. Crooked signs bolted to the rails threaten fines and jail time if violators cross the border into the United States, but many simply walk around the fence. has chosen to ignore this warning. On a wet, snowy and rainy Tuesday night, a team of RCMP Border Enforcement Officers took CTV reporters on the ground to learn how mounted troops are working to stop illegal border crossings at these unprotected points of entry. He…
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A legal review commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations warns that a change of government next year could invalidate a $47.8 billion agreement to reform the Indigenous child welfare system. The agreement was signed in July after decades of advocacy and litigation by Indigenous peoples and experts seeking to redress discrimination against Indigenous children who have been removed from their families and placed in foster care. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal had ordered Canada to reach agreements with First Nations. Mayors voted against the deal at a special meeting in October, leaving the AFN scrambling to figure out what…
ottawa – Despite billions of dollars spent by the federal government on housing affordability measures, the number of Canadians in need of affordable housing continues to rise, parliamentary budget officials say. Announced. new analysis Published on Thursday. The report says 2.4 million Canadian households are now in “core housing need,” an increase of 662,000 households since 2017 when Canada launched its national housing strategy. The National Housing Strategy aims to free 580,000 households from or reduce their primary housing needs by 2028. However, the PBO’s latest forecasts show the government is far from reaching that goal. The PBO predicts that…
Two federal government officials confirmed to CTV News that the federal government has sold its stake in Air Canada. The news was first reported by the Globe and Mail. During the 2021 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the government purchased a 6% stake in the company for $500 million as part of a relief package. Ottawa’s rescue deal with Air Canada at the time included a $5.9 billion loan from the government to help the airline, which suffered billions of dollars in losses during the pandemic. As of Thursday afternoon, Air Canada shares closed up 23 cents at $25.28 on the…
It comes less than a day after Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut off the province’s energy supply to the United States if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his threat of punitive tariffs. It appears that we do not agree with the prime minister’s approach to retaliatory measures. . “Well, first of all, this is a last resort,” Ford told reporters Thursday when asked if Ontario could proceed with its own energy cutoff. “What we’re sending to the United States is, ‘You’re coming to attack Ontario, you’re attacking the people of Ontario, you’re attacking the lives of Canadians,…
Alberta Premier Daniel Smith says a long-awaited federal plan to address Canada-U.S. border issues will be unveiled on Monday. Smith said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau briefed him on the plan Wednesday afternoon during a virtual call with leaders of 13 provinces and territories. “He wanted to make sure we brought it first before he called the president of the United States,” Smith said in an interview Thursday on CTV Power Play, referring to President-elect Donald Trump. Ta. “And of course we’ll have more details on that on December 16th.” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to release her autumn economic…
Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism was finally unveiled Thursday in Ottawa, but the controversy surrounding the project over the past decade continues.Etobicoke Center MP Ivan Baker was scheduled to speak at the unveiling of the monument at the Provincial and Territorial Gardens on Wellington Street, but no one from the Liberal government attended the ceremony.”We are extremely disappointed that the Prime Minister cannot or has chosen not to be here,” said Robert Tomedzi, director of Tribute to Liberty, a registered charity supporting the project. spoke. “It’s unfortunate that this commemoration, which started many years ago under another administration,…
An entire wall of the fortified second-floor room of Wes Winkel’s gun shop is filled with narrow cardboard boxes. They include dozens of assault-style weapons still in their original packaging, gathering dust for nearly five years. Inventory that has been paid for and remains insured, but has been prohibited from public sale since spring 2020. Mr. Winkel, owner of Elwood Epps Sporting Goods in Orillia, Ont., estimates the dead items cost nearly a quarter as much. – Million dollars. “Prohibited stock hurts,” said Winkel, who is also president of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA), a gun manufacturing…
President Donald Trump jokes that Canada could become the 51st state and refers to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as governor instead of prime minister, all to ‘humiliate’ Canada’s leader , says a former senior Trump adviser.And that’s what we should expect from the next president of the United States, said John Bolton, now a critic of Trump.”I think he’s trying to make fun of and humiliate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I think President Trump is getting a laugh out of it.” “I don’t mean to over-intellectualize it. I think he’s just being mean,” Bolton said of Trump’s jokes about Canada…
Quebec Premier François Legault posted a photo of his dinner with National League Premier Andrew Furey on Wednesday night. (François Legault/X)Details were released Thursday on a multibillion-dollar agreement between Newfoundland and Labrador-Quebec that restructures the contract for the Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, a hotly contested issue between the two provinces for decades. It is scheduled to be announced. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and Quebec Premier François Legault meet in what the Furey administration calls a “historic partnership agreement” at The Looms cultural complex in St. John’s at 2 p.m. ET. We plan to provide an overview of the…
