Taxpayers were billed $61,000 for hotel rooms during a recent trip to New York City by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend the celebrity-studded “Global Citizen NOW” anti-poverty summit. 

In a six minute- video uploaded to social media, Former Toronto mayor John Tory has endorsed his one-time deputy Ana Bailão to become the next mayor of the city.

The Alberta government says it will hire outside arson investigators because it requires additional support due to the unusually early and aggressive wildfire season. 

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  • Rachel Emmanuel

    Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.

  • Noah Jarvis