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Roberto Wakerell-Cruz

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz is a Montreal-based journalist writer and podcast host. He is the main host of This Week In Canada a comedy and opinion news show.

Canadian News, News

WATCH: Trudeau announces $500 million arts funding for Heritage Canada

The funding will go towards those working in carts, culture, and sports sector, the prime minister said.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 17, 2020

Canadian News, News

Trudeau announces $1.7 BILLION environmental fund as part of coronavirus response

Trudeau announced that the government will put $1.7 billion towards cleaning up orphan and inactive wells in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 17, 2020

Canadian News, News

Trudeau government gave $41 million to authoritarian Chinese government in 2019

Canada has run a trade deficit with China since 1992, with the deficit breaking a record $50 billion last year.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 17, 2020

Canadian News, News

WATCH: Quebec plane lands on highway in INSANE emergency landing

Incredibly, it doesn't seem like many of the drivers made any real attempt to make way for the airplane, making the landing all the more impressive.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 16, 2020

News, American News, Culture

Elon Musk roasts CNN after they publish fake news, says he’s 'surprised CNN still exists'

CNN ran with the story, only to later find that Musk kept his receipts. Musk did not mince words upon finding the smear piece against him, asking how CNN “still exists.”

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 16, 2020

News, International News

Trudeau government gives $828,000 grant to Wuhan lab where virus may have originated

The Trudeau government is giving part of an $828,046 grant to a lab in China for a coronavirus research project.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 16, 2020

Canadian News, News

An estimated 300,000 contaminated Chinese coronavirus tests sent across Canada

The test kits arrived in Canada in Winnipeg, then were sent to New Brunswick.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 16, 2020

Canadian News, News

BREAKING: Trudeau announces aid to help small businesses pay rent until June

Trudeau also announced that the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance would be launched soon, to help small businesses pay rent for April, May, and June.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 16, 2020

#unrestricted, News, International News

Sad Dr. Tedros 'regrets to inform' public US officially suspends funding to WHO

Tedros said other donors would be contacted to try and fill the void left by America's cessation of funding.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 15, 2020

Canadian News, News

Ford unveils action plan to protect the elderly, long-term care homes

Doug Ford addressed media on Tuesday, announcing the launch of his government's "all-out plan" to protect the vulnerable and to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 15, 2020

#unrestricted, Canadian News, News

Trudeau Liberals will continue to issue permits to foreign workers while Canada's unemployment skyrockets

Unemployment is excepted to hit 15 percent this summer.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 15, 2020

Canadian News, News

BREAKING: Trudeau says WHO funding is in the 'tens of millions,' refuses to criticize China and WHO

Trudeau revealed that the funding was in the tens-of-millions of dollars. Trudeau said the figure had recently risen.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 15, 2020

#unrestricted, Canadian News, News

Five reminders of why China's government is Canada's enemy

The world has been tossed into a war it did not pick and did not want, fighting against a deadly coronavirus that originated in China.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 14, 2020

Canadian News, News

WATCH: Trudeau defends decision to break his own rules, visit cottage

Trudeau addressed criticisms that he faced from Canadians after the PM travelled to his Quebec cottage to see his family on Tuesday.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 14, 2020

Canadian News, News

BREAKING: Forced quarantines in hotels for visitors to Canada who cannot give credible plan

Trudeau announced that asymptomatic travelers who cannot explain a credible quarantine plan will be made to quarantine in a hotel.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Apr 14, 2020

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