Kait Bolongaro
Bloomberg
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Trudeau Vows 3% Surtax on Big Canada Bank, Insurance Profits
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pledging to impose a 3% surtax on Canada’s largest financial institutions if he’s re-elected. → Read More
Trudeau Vows 2-Year Ban on Foreign Home Buyers If Re-Elected
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to introduce a two-year ban on foreign home buyers to tackle housing affordability in Canada if he’s re-elected. → Read More
Riding High on Vaccines, Trudeau Aims to Restore Ruling Majority
Early in the pandemic, Justin Trudeau looked like a man under siege. Atop a minority government, hiding behind a scruffy Covid beard, Canada’s prime minister called the military into infected retirement homes as hospitals filled and drug producers threw up their hands over vaccines. → Read More
Canada Will Open Border to Fully Vaccinated U.S. Visitors Aug. 9
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government presented a road map to reopening Canada’s borders to non-essential international travel by the beginning of September. → Read More
Trudeau’s Border Plan Seeks to Allow U.S. Travel by Mid-August
Justin Trudeau laid out a timeline for reopening Canada’s border to U.S. and overseas travelers after months of resisting calls for a clear plan from business groups and his political rivals. → Read More
Trudeau Nominates First Nonwhite Judge to Canada’s Top Court
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated the first-ever nonwhite judge to the Supreme Court of Canada. → Read More
Hockey Seeks to Skate Around Rules Even Trudeau Is Following
In Canada, hockey transcends everything -- even the rules a prime minister has to live by. → Read More
Trudeau Ministers Begin Sketching Plan to Reopen U.S. Border
Justin Trudeau’s government began to outline the conditions for easing travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border. → Read More
Trudeau Visa Lures Nearly 6,000 Hong Kongers Amid China Feud
Nearly 6,000 Hong Kong residents have applied for a new Canadian special visa program that began taking applications in February, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is calling a “strong uptake.” → Read More
Trudeau Government Begins Work on Reopening U.S.-Canada Border
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has begun preliminary internal discussions about reopening the border with the U.S., even as Canada remains well behind its neighbor in vaccinations. → Read More
Canada’s Vaccine Push Is Plagued by Confusion and Erratic Supply
Canada is considering allowing patients to receive two different types of Covid-19 vaccines as the country deals with shortages of shots from AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc. → Read More
Russian Pranksters Dupe Canadian Lawmakers With Fake Navalny Act
Canadian lawmakers were tricked by Russian pranksters claiming to be one of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s key supporters at a closed-door meeting last month. → Read More
Canada Eases Immigration Requirements for Foreign Health Workers
Justin Trudeau’s government announced it will start expediting permanent residency next month for foreign workers on the front lines of the pandemic, as part of efforts to keep more of them in the country. → Read More
Trudeau Says He Has a Mandate for Aid That Could Top $80 Billion
Justin Trudeau said he doesn’t need fresh approval from Canadian voters for the ambitious, debt-financed recovery plan his government will present next month. → Read More
China to Begin Trials for Two Canadians Held Amid Huawei Feud
Two men at the heart of a bitter diplomatic feud between Canada and China are heading to trial, according to Justin Trudeau’s top diplomat. → Read More
Trudeau’s Cabinet Shuffle Signals Possible Election This Year
Justin Trudeau’s decision to shuffle his cabinet is the strongest sign yet that he could soon send Canadians to the polls. → Read More
Trudeau Needs to Make Up Mind on Huawei 5G Ban, Lawmakers Say
Lawmakers passed a motion demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decide within 30 days whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s next-generation wireless network. → Read More
Singh Says New Democrats Won’t Give Trudeau Election He Wants
Jagmeet Singh signaled his social-democratic lawmakers won’t back a Conservative push for a special committee to investigate alleged mishandling of Covid-19 spending, lowering the odds of a snap election in Canada. → Read More
Trudeau Dares Opposition to Fight Election Amid Second Covid Wave
Justin Trudeau warned opposition lawmakers they will trigger an election in Canada if they approve the creation of an “anti-corruption” committee. → Read More
Trudeau Set to Tell His Side of Growing Student-Grant Scandal
Justin Trudeau gets a chance to douse the flames of a scandal that’s overshadowing the Canadian government’s pandemic response in rare testimony before lawmakers. → Read More