Tag: Emergencies Act
about 1 year ago
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Doug Ford has failed the accountability test

The premier might have wanted to avoid messing up by not showing up at the Emergencies Act inquiry, but there is no a...

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about 1 year ago
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Did Justin Trudeau need the Emergencies Act to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’? The top questions the j...

Justice Paul Rouleau’s report into the Trudeau government’s decision to use the Emergencies Act to end the so-called ...

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over 1 year ago
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Feuding politicians. Candid texts. A stunning inquiry. The behind-the-scenes story of how the ‘Fr...

Testimony and evidence at the inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the “Freedom ...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Inquiry showed us just how much Justin Trudeau has learned from battling with Donald Tr...

The so-called “Freedom Convoy” often felt like what would happen if a mad scientist tried to bottle two years of pand...

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over 1 year ago
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Transcript reveals Justin Trudeau’s call with former Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen

As the prime minister testified Friday, a rough transcript of a Feb. 3 call was shown at the public inquiry into Just...

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over 1 year ago
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to testify at final day of Emergencies Act hearings

Trudeau’s appearance is the grand finale after 30 days of hearings looking into last winter’s so-called “Freedom Conv...

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over 1 year ago
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Freedom Convoy’ lawyer called ‘idiot’ after mistaken identity

Brendan Miller seemed to think a man attending the Emergencies Act inquiry was the man he accused of carrying a Nazi ...

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over 1 year ago
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Trudeau staffers’ evidence contradicts former Conservative interim leader’s recollection of call ...

PMO officials say the former Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen told the prime minister there would be “signi...

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over 1 year ago
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Chrystia Freeland and Katie Telford to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

The finance minister and Trudeau’s chief of staff are the latest officials to speak about use the Emergencies Act to ...

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over 1 year ago
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Lawyer for ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers kicked out of Emergencies Act inquiry

A lawyer for some organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests was ejected from the Emergencies Act inquiry ...

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over 1 year ago
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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to testify at inquiry on why government invoked Emergencie...

Mendicino is expected to clarify exactly what RCMP Comm. Brenda Lucki advised him prior to a key cabinet meeting on F...

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over 1 year ago
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Border blockades tipped ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests into national security threat, Bill Blair tells...

Blair said the blockades were harming Canada’s economy, and he thought police had exhausted existing powers or couldn...

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over 1 year ago
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CSIS head told Justin Trudeau to use Emergencies Act, inquiry told

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service advised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the federal governm...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | With Trudeau set to speak last, Emergencies Act inquiry’s upcoming week enters grand fi...

The prime minister is the last witness who will appear Friday before Justice Paul Rouleau after six weeks of hearings.

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over 1 year ago
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Canada’s top bureaucrat to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry

Janice Charette, the Clerk of the Privy Council, is scheduled to appear Friday at the Public Order Emergency Commissi...

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over 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau’s top security adviser contradicts top Mountie Brenda Lucki at ‘Freedom Convoy’ in...

Trudeau’s national security adviser says RCMP commissioner did not advise federal cabinet that police had by Feb. 13,...

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over 1 year ago
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

Lucki’s role in the response to the crisis has already come up at the inquiry, including in evidence that she wanted ...

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over 1 year ago
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Commission counsel to Justice Paul Rouleau to present new reports at Emergencies Act inquiry

The Rouleau inquiry begins a fourth week of testimony into whether the federal government was justified in resorting ...

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over 1 year ago
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Analysis | Behind-the-scenes moments are being revealed at the Emergencies Act inquiry. Will they...

After 21 days of testimony, a public inquiry is still dancing around the question of whether the government was justi...

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over 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau said using military at ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests would be the ‘last resort,’ inqui...

The revelation comes from notes taken during a call on which several premiers expressed concern that using the Emerge...

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over 1 year ago
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Lawyer collapses at Emergencies Act inquiry

Gabriel Poliquin, lawyer for the Public Order Emergency Commission, was leading an Ontario bureaucrat through his evi...

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over 1 year ago
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Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens tells Emergencies Act inquiry police readied for bridge blockade, afte...

The inquiry led by Justice Paul Rouleau is probing the federal government’s decision to invoke emergency powers to su...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Ottawa protesters are really a convoy of the clueless

This week’s hearings into the ‘Freedom Convoy’ of the clueless revealed what happens when the inmates run the asylum,...

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over 1 year ago
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Diagolon’s Jeremy MacKenzie and ‘Freedom Convoy’ leader Tamara Lich to testify at Emergencies Act...

MacKenzie, a prominent figure on the online far-right who claims Diagolon is a harmless internet joke, is currently f...

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over 1 year ago
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Tears, outbursts and monologues: Judge struggles to keep Emergencies Act inquiry on track as ‘Fre...

A judge who gave the floor to key “Freedom Convoy” organizers to vent about personality conflicts, power struggles an...

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over 1 year ago
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Ottawa police thought the ‘Freedom Convoy’ would end quickly — but intelligence reports reveal ot...

The federal government produced daily intelligence briefings by RCMP and senior public servants on the so-called “Fre...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Freedom Convoy’ co-organizer Tamara Lich to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry today

The “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first...

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over 1 year ago
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Emergencies Act inquiry to hear from Pat King, other ‘Freedom Convoy’ figures on Wednesday

The inquiry is probing the conditions that prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford’s reasons for not testifying at Emergencies Act inquiry might not be good enough, judge...

In a four-hour hearing in Ottawa, lawyers for Ford and Sylvia Jones argued that compelling them to appear would do “i...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Freedom Convoy’ protest organizers to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

The inquiry is slated to hear from three protest leaders on Tuesday: truckers Chris Barber and Brigitte Belton, and S...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford has no excuse to dodge Emergencies Act inquiry, commission lawyers say

Premier Doug Ford’s claim that his job gives him immunity from testifying at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry is a...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Where is Pierre Poilievre as the facts come out about the ‘Freedom Convoy’?

Police and politicians had many fierce disputes about the convoy but they appear to have all agreed upon one thing, S...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Freedom Convoy’s’ intelligence reports reveal organizers knew they could close Ottawa

The trove of reports — which the Star accessed Monday — is referenced in an Ontario Provincial Police threat assessme...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | What Canadians really wanted was a ‘Safety Convoy’

The layabouts who occupied Ottawa and made daily life miserable for its weary citizens were copying America at its mo...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford was asked in the summer if he’d participate in the Emergencies Act inquiry. His respons...

While Ford is going to court to avoid being forced to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry, he was singing a decide...

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over 1 year ago
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Former Ottawa Police chief Peter Sloly testifying at Emergencies Act inquiry

The former chief’s conduct during the so-called “Freedom Convoy” occupation in Ottawa has been a constant focus over ...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Flustered’ Doug Ford under fire at Queen’s Park, as documents reveal questions inquiry lawyers w...

Premier Doug Ford is feeling the heat over his refusal to testify at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry — and losing...

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over 1 year ago
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Emergencies Act Inquiry to hear CSIS evidence on ‘Freedom Convoy’ in secret

Justice Paul Rouleau agreed to the federal government’s request for a closed hearing on information the spy agency cl...

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over 1 year ago
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New document reveals the day the Emergencies Act was invoked, police warned of growing risk of vi...

The report from the Ontario Provincial Police said the protest was getting more volatile, informed on police planning...

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