Government bailouts and executive bonuses.

Bombardier has received billions of dollars from governments and laid off thousands of workers all while granting massive bonuses to executives. Canadian Conservative Leadership Candidate Maxime Bernier joins Charles to discuss.

The Criminal Justice Branch has appointed lawyer David Butcher to help provide legal advice to the RCMP with the investigation into indirect political contributions and other possible violations of the B.C. Election Act. Keith Baldrey explains.

Ten months after he was declared not criminally responsible (NCR) for the worst mass killing in Calgary’s history, Matthew de Grood will start seeking freedoms. Global's Nancy Hixt explains.

As the federal government works to expand the practice known as “preclearance,” in which Canadians traveling to the U.S. go through customs on Canadian soil, a new public opinion poll from the Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians divided on some key elements of the bill that would enable this expansion.

This happens regularly: I pick up my phone and hear “Mr. Gilmore, thank you for your previous donations to the Conservative Party of Canada…” Before they can continue, I respond: “You picked the wrong day for this” and hang up. Because, inevitably, I will have just watched Brad Trost deny climate change, or heard Maxime Bernier’s plan to send troops to the border, or read anything that plopped out of the mouth of Kevin O’Leary.

The Conservative leadership race has been hard to watch, unless you support the Liberals or any other political party in Canada —in which case it’s been a laugh a minute. But for people like me, I am left wondering how I ended up in a party seemingly dominated by xenophobic, economically illiterate, populist buffoons.

Maxime Bernier, leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, today announced the endorsement of two of British Columbia’s most prominent personalities: Kevin Falcon and Ryan Beedie. Last night, the duo proved to be powerful. Falcon and Beedie raised $130,000, the single largest amount for any leadership candidate.

Two Canadian Federal Conservative Parties?

 Keith McCullough spent time in the U.S documenting Somali migrant’s border jumping into Canada. He joins Charles to discuss.

Should teachers be informing parents of the clubs their kids are participating in?