Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Caracas to back opposition leader Juan Guaido’s calls for early elections as international pressure increased on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Mr Maduro addressed a rally in Caracas on Saturday and proposed bringing forward parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2020, to this year, as he sought…
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is on track to run deficits nearly $8 billion deeper than expected over the next two years, the federal budget watchdog said Monday in a new report. The parliamentary budget officer estimated the Liberals will post a $22.1-billion shortfall this fiscal year, which would be $4 billion more than the…
The Pentagon has refused to rule out military intervention on Venezuela’s border, a day after John Bolton, the US national security adviser, was photographed carrying a notepad that read: “5,000 troops to Colombia”. Patrick Shanahan, the acting defence secretary, was asked repeatedly whether Mr Bolton’s notes indicated a deployment. "I’m not commenting on it,” he…
The US government may have separated “thousands” more immigrant children from their parents than previously known but inadequate record-keeping means the exact number is still unclear, an internal watchdog said on Thursday. The Office of Inspector General at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the agency had identified many more children in addition to the 2,737 included…
NEW YORK — Reefer Madness has gripped Wall Street. Investors are craving marijuana stocks as Canada prepares to legalize pot next month, leading to giant gains for Canada-based companies listed on U.S. exchanges. Billions of dollars have poured into the stocks in the last few months, and there’s a lot of excitement and a ton…
The momentum in Canada’s job market is fading. The country’s unemployment rate rose to 6 per cent in August, from a four-decade low of 5.8 per cent the month before, recording a surprise loss of 51,600 jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday. Economists had been expecting an increase of around 5,000 jobs for the month. The…
Donald Trump lost. Of that there is no doubt. But the size of gap between the US president’s predictions during the shutdown and what he announced on Friday is so vast that it bears spelling out in full. By my count there are at least six declarations that Mr Trump made which ended up being…
On July 3, 2018, the federal government announced its plan to earmark nearly $1 million towards research on cannabis impaired driving. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is set to undertake a three-year study to determine, once and for all, how high is too high for a person to drive. This announcement comes just…
Participants in Ontario’s short-lived basic income experiment will sue the provincial government. Lawyer Mike Perry filed the notice of action in a Lindsay, Ont. courthouse on Monday. “No one likes to sue,” Perry said in a press release. “Legal actions against the government are hard. But this is why the courts are there: for people…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn-in for a second, six-year term on Thursday despite his country’s continued economic spiral that has sparked the region’s worst ever migration crisis. Maduro’s new term will bring further international presssure on Caracas as dozens of countries have called his May re-election fraudulent and pledged not to recognise…