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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.

News Analysis

Fact-checkers 'correct' claim that Kamala said hurricane funding would favor people of color

"Our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making... So we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity," Harris said.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 4, 2022

American News, News Analysis

BREAKING: Trump defends Herschel Walker, SLAMS 'Fake News Media' and Democrats

Trump said that Walker "has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he is correct."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 4, 2022

American News

BREAKING: Elon Musk agrees to Twitter buy at $54.20 a share

The Twitter stock has halted twice on Tuesday due to volatility.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 4, 2022

American News

BREAKING: Steve Bannon gets November 2023 trial date in New York case

"This is what happens in the last days of a dying regime," said Bannon in September. "They'll never shut me up. They'll have to kill me first."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 4, 2022

Canadian News

Quebec reelects Premier Francois Legault for second majority term

Quebec Premier Francois Legault has been elected for a second term with another majority government.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 4, 2022

American News

Herschel Walker after son’s Twitter attack: 'I LOVE my son no matter what'

Republican nominee for US Senate in Georgia Herschel Walker responded to allegations of "lying" and "making a mockery" of his family by his son, tweeting on Monday night, "I LOVE my son no matter what."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 3, 2022

American News

BREAKING: Trump suing CNN for defamation, seeking over $475 million in damages

Trump's attorneys say that CNN "has sought to use its massive influence — purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source — to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘[getting] Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 3, 2022

Canadian News

BREAKING: Trudeau goes bungee jumping as Canadian economy plunges

"You never know who you will encounter on the bungee tower at Great Canadian Bungee! Canadian Prime Minister @justinpjtrudeau came to jump this morning with his son Xavier and daughter Ella-Grace," an Instagram post from the company said.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 3, 2022

American News

BREAKING: Zelensky attacks Elon Musk for proposing peaceful solution for Ukraine conflict

Musk suggested that the elections be redone under UN supervision. "Russia leaves if that is [the] will of the people," he said in a tweet.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 3, 2022

News Analysis

Biden takes a shot at Trump before Puerto Rico visit

Biden said that the territory was not "taken very good care of" following Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Oct 3, 2022

News Analysis

Chinese 'police service centers' surveilling nationals across USA, Europe and Canada

There were 32 stations at the time of the report's publication. Another 22 stations have been launched in 22 new cities across 17 countries.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Sep 29, 2022

Canadian News

Poilievre demands Trudeau stop vaccine mandate for Canadian Armed Forces

Poilievre called for the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for members of the CAF to be dropped, calling it "obviously unscientific and contradictory."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Sep 30, 2022

News Analysis

BREAKING: White House says 'it's not all that unusual' for Biden to forget a congresswoman is dead

When Jean-Pierre was asked why Biden thought the deceased congresswoman was "living and in the room," Jean-Pierre said that she does "not find it confusing."

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Sep 28, 2022

News Analysis

Biden asks if deceased Republican is in attendance at White House event—she was killed in August

While thanking several "bipartisan elected officials," Biden named "Jackie," then asked "Jackie are you here? Where's Jackie?"

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Sep 28, 2022

News Analysis

WATCH: Don Lemon shut down by weather authority after saying Hurricane Ian is due to 'climate change'

"I don't think you can blame climate change on any one event. On the whole, on the accumulative, climate change may be making storms worse. To link it to any one event, I'd caution against that," said Acting Director of the National Hurricane Center Jamie Rohme.

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / Sep 28, 2022

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