Party leaders make final push as campaigns wind down
CBC
The main party leaders spent Saturday morning touting their plans for the country and attacking one another as the federal election campaign approaches its conclusion.
In Aurora, Ont., Liberal leader Justin Trudeau focused on touting his government's pandemic response and housing plan.
"We looked at the housing crisis and we said, okay, what kind of measures can we apply to the housing crisis with the same intensity and urgency we did on the pandemic?" he said.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, his main competitor in the polls, was the one in his crosshairs Saturday morning. Trudeau criticized O'Toole on mandatory vaccinations — including for Conservative Party candidates who may not have been vaccinated.
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"Mr. O'Toole won't respect the science, won't respect people who want to get back to normal, and take even the simplest step of demanding that all his candidates be vaccinated to lead by example," Trudeau said.
"He's defending the freedoms and the choice of anti-vaxxers who are putting us all at risk."
Most people would prefer to spend the Christmas holiday weekend in warmth and comfort — but a Philadelphia man is going to spend it trudging 120 kilometres in the cold across Windsor-Essex.
Long before the first Calgary Stampede, the city attracted a different kind of cowboy.
After waiting four years to get his son the support the family says he needs to navigate school with learning challenges, a father from London, Ont. is fighting to make equitable healthcare and education a fundamental right.
Waterloo region and Guelph are under two yellow weather alerts warning of freezing rain changing to heavy rainfall Sunday, Environment Canada says.
A survey recently conducted on Prince Edward Island turned up a type of freshwater snail that experts say has never before been identified in the Maritimes.
A downtown Toronto long-term care home is rebuilding with a new design that considers lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, going beyond the province’s standards — but some say those standards are out of date.
It’s another wet and stormy day for much of Newfoundland and Labrador.
It’s been years since the tiny but aggressive European green crab made its way over to the Magdalen Islands, and some researchers in Quebec are warning it could be headed for the Gaspé next.
An early morning fire on Boxing Day has displaced almost 40 guests at a motel in Nanaimo, B.C.
Michael Hage scored on a power play 44 seconds into overtime as Canada survived a blown late lead to pick up a 2-1 victory over Latvia at the world junior hockey championship Saturday in Minneapolis.
Firefighters responded to an e-scooter fire at Casey House just before 3 p.m. Saturday.
One man is in custody after two people were killed near Grande Prairie, Alta. early Saturday morning.
Toronto police identified the victim of a stabbing in Liberty Village on Friday night.