WATCH: "Trudeau Spineless" Said Conservative Andrew Scheer as Parliament is Prorogued
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 19 Aug, 2020 08:17 PM
No confidence motion may trigger a Federal election in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that he had asked to have Parliament prorogued until Sept. 23 so the Liberal government can return that day with a speech from the throne that will outline its plans for the COVID-19 pandemic recovery.
Bloc Quebecois Jean-Yves Blanchet said Wednesday his party will force a confidence vote against the Liberal government this fall unless Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his finance minister and his chief of staff resign.
Carleton University's criminology school says it will no longer place students to work with police forces and prisons as a show of solidarity with the movement to address systemic racism in Canada's criminal justice institutions.
The Innu Nation has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging the federal government spends more money removing children from homes than keeping families together.
A man accused of killing a family doctor at a walk-in clinic in central Alberta appeared confused at his first court appearance Wednesday, telling a judge that he doesn't remember and is sick.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer rose Wednesday in the House of Commons for what's likely his last time as Opposition leader and told the MPs dotted throughout the chamber he had a sense of deja vu.
The mother of a man who died in a Halifax police jail cell in June 2016 has asked a judge to impose the "strictest penalty possible" on two special police constables found guilty of criminal negligence in his death.
