Trudeau Pleads for Patience Amid Crippling Rail Blockades – Bloomberg

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for patience and dialog as indigenous-rights protests that have brought rail traffic to a halt across Canada drag on.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-18/trudeau-faces-lawmakers-amid-crippling-rail-blockades-in-canada

‘Nobody panhandles by choice’: How panhandling bans affect the homeless | CBC Radio

As three municipalities in B.C. enact bylaws banning panhandling — and threaten stiff fines for those ticketed — one expert says the approach is criminalizing homelessness.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/nobody-panhandles-by-choice-how-panhandling-bans-affect-the-homeless-1.5396838

New cabinet must make the best of an uncertain economic outlook: Don Pittis

As Canada’s federal Liberals buckle down to their new term, markets hint that stimulus by central banks has helped reverse the worst of the global economic slide. But the OECD says more help is needed.
— Read on www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/new-cabinet-must-make-the-best-of-an-uncertain-economic-outlook-don-pittis/ar-BBXhlZH

Trudeau Leans on Freeland, Morneau in Second-Term Cabinet Revamp – Bloomberg

Justin Trudeau gave a vote of confidence to his two most effective ministers to oversee the thorniest issues facing his government as he starts a second term in power after last month’s bruising election.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-20/trudeau-leans-on-freeland-morneau-in-second-term-cabinet-revamp

International investors mock Canada’s inability to build pipelines: Manning – Video – BNN

Preston Manning, former Reform Party of Canada leader and founder of the Manning Centre, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the issue of Western alienation, this week’s federal election outcome and Canada’s inability to get pipelines built.
— Read on www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/video/international-investors-mock-canada-s-inability-to-build-pipelines-manning~1811999

Looming election reminiscent of 1972 race that elected minority government and no one knew who won for weeks | CBC Archives

On election night in 1972, it looked as if the two main parties, the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives, were in a dead heat — and both were ready to govern.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/archives/canada-1972-minority-government-1.5322669