White House rejects reports of tension with Canada over India interference allegation
The White House is pushing back against reports that Canada-U.S. relations are straining under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s seismic allegation that the government of India was involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the U.S. shares Canada’s “deep concerns” and denies any suggestion of a wedge between the […]
4 in 10 Canadians say Pierre Poilievre best choice for PM: poll
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s polling momentum continues to chug along with 40 per cent of Canadians saying he’s the best choice to be prime minister, according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News. Poilievre’s favourables on this question are up five points from a year ago. The number of respondents who think […]
Canada has Indian diplomats’ communications in bombshell murder probe: sources
The Canadian government has amassed both human and signals intelligence in a months-long investigation of a Sikh activist’s death that has inflamed relations with India, sources tell CBC News. That intelligence includes communications involving Indian officials themselves, including Indian diplomats present in Canada, say Canadian government sources. The intelligence did not come solely from Canada. […]
Canada’s electronic intelligence agency is warning the Canadian cyber community — especially operators of government and critical infrastructure websites — to be vigilant as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the country. “We have observed that it’s not uncommon to see increased distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaigns against NATO countries that support Ukraine, or host […]
Read MoreEarly in the morning on Sept. 18, the first full day of the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary, the hall was largely empty. Volunteers and security far outnumbered the delegates in the cavernous BMO Centre on the edge of downtown. Exhibitors stood around waiting for someone to talk to, or warming up the many espresso […]
Read MorePremier Danielle Smith may have wanted Alberta to go it alone on pensions for more than two decades, but to fulfil her dreams she’ll have to convert a wary Alberta public. Polls have shown Albertans clearly don’t dream her dream with her. Pick your pollster: it was opposed by a margin of 31 per cent […]
Read MoreOntario Premier Doug Ford says he is reversing his plan to open the protected Greenbelt lands for housing development and won’t make any changes to the Greenbelt in the future. While meeting with his caucus during a retreat this week in Niagara Falls, Ont., Ford says his caucus members shared with him what they have […]
Read MoreAs Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s new housing plan takes aim at municipalities and a “not in my backyard” mentality from individuals, housing experts met with transit agency representatives in Ottawa to discuss ways to address local opposition to change.
Read MoreJust days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the astonishing allegation that Canada has “credible intelligence” linking agents of the Indian government to the killing of a Canadian citizen, the scandal has scarcely been mentioned during question period in the House of Commons. There might be a good reason for that, observers say. “There’s a […]
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Canada vs India: Where Does This Lead?
Is there a way out of this India story or are the two sides just too entrenched in their positions? Chantal and Bruce have their thoughts on the story that has dominated the headlines all week. And Doug Ford — does saying you’re sorry clean up the Greenbelt mess?
Why Would India Assassinate a Sikh Leader on Canadian Soil?
ON JUNE 18, Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead as he left the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, at night. The forty-five-year-old was a prominent figure in the Sikh community in BC. He had moved to Canada from the Indian state of Punjab in 1997 and worked as a […]
Canada and India are locked in a battle. Here’s who will suffer
Sometimes a lowly travel advisory can shed light on high geopolitical drama such as the one playing out right now between Canada and India. It can show how mistrust can turn the most innocuous of moves into an act of aggression and lead to a series of escalations. This week saw Canada cause a churn […]
Trudeau is asking for trust when there’s little left
As far as channel-changing gambits go, ginning up the murder of a Canadian citizen into an international conspiracy would be a bold one. Which is probably why Justin Trudeau isn’t lying about possible Indian government involvement in the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
A messy world once again intrudes on Canada’s tidy partisan debates
Roland Paris, a professor of international affairs at the University of Ottawa and a former adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was testifying before a Senate committee studying Canada’s foreign service last year when a Conservative senator pressed him to agree with a long indictment of recent Canadian foreign policy. “Canada is not alone in […]
Has the Trudeau government been as derelict on India’s interference as it has been on China’s?
The tendency of our current politics to view absolutely everything through the lens of partisanship has rarely been on better display than in the aftermath of the Prime Minister’s dramatic announcement in Parliament Monday: that Canadian intelligence officials were pursuing “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of a Canadian Sikh leader, Hardeep Singh […]
What was the point of the Canada-wide gender protest?
Wednesday’s cross-Canada “gender ideology” protests and counterprotests about schools and sex education et al were something of a flop. That’s more of a compliment than an insult. Good: They were mostly peaceful, which is a triumph given that current gender quarrels are an American construct born of MAGA Republicans and thus about right vs. wrong […]
Has the Confidence & Supply Agreement Hurt the federal NDP?
I was asked this week by a journalist whether the Confidence & Supply agreement between the Liberals and NDP, announced in March 2022, has hurt the NDP. It was a good question and something that’s being discussed a lot – especially as Liberal polling numbers sag and the Conservatives move into majority government territory. A […]
Alberta has the right to help its pensioners
The Government of Alberta intends to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up an Alberta Pension Plan (APP), which could be very beneficial to its pensioners. Still, people will be shocked that Alberta is claiming a right to $344 billion or 53% of the CPP’s projected assets in 2027, even though it […]
Today in Canada’s Political History: Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom addresses Canada’s Parliament
A distinguished visitor arrived in Ottawa on this date in 2011 in the person of David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The highlight of his trip to Ottawa was the speech he delivered to a joint-session of Canada’s Parliament. “The relationship between Britain and Canada is deep and strong,” Cameron said. “At the Chateau […]
On Monday, the dozens of Canadians watching question period on CPAC happened upon the political equivalent of a solar eclipse: agreement between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre. After the prime minister dropped the bombshell accusing India of being involved in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Poilievre responded with an uncharacteristic outburst of agreeability. “If […]
Read MorePierre Poilievre seems to pop up with his populist message everywhere these days. But even though he’s out to woo working class voters, one place you definitely won’t find him is on a picket line. The Conservative leader fumes relentlessly about today’s “affordability” crisis, and he correctly points out that workers are struggling to pay […]
Read MoreThousands of protesters and counter-protesters in cities across Canada have clashed over the rights of trans children and youth. The “1 Million March 4 Children” on Sept. 20 is part of a widespread and growing “parental rights” movement targeting inclusive public education. This movement has already influenced provincial politics in Canada, including via Policy 713 […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, thousands of parents and supporters took to the streets across Canada for the 1 Million March 4 Children protest, chanting “leave the kids alone.” They were protesting the teaching of “gender ideology” in schools, including lessons about gender identity, transgenderism and schools’ refusal to inform parents of their children’s use of preferred pronouns.
Read MoreWill we ever get the questions swirling around the allegations against India answered? And if so, who will answer them? Bruce is here to try and sort out the key elements of a story that could be with us for quite some time. That plus the early reviews on Parliament’s new fall session.
Read MoreFor the Indian government to kill an Indian citizen, without trial, in India would be a grievous wrong. To kill one of its citizens on foreign soil would be worse still: not just extra-judicial but extra-territorial. But to assassinate a Canadian citizen, in Canada, would take matters to a whole new level. It is the […]
Read MoreFor this week’s column, I was going to write something disparaging about Justin Trudeau, until Pierre “Hold My Beer” Poilievre came through, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, with a stunner of a slip of anti-Blackness after the Sept. 18 Question Period—the first after Parliament’s summer break.
Read MoreWhen Justin Trudeau stood up in Parliament on Monday to declare “credible allegations” against India, he was writing a new chapter in Canada’s diplomatic and security history. But the prime minister was also turning a significant page in his own history, demonstrating just how badly this Liberal government wants to avoid a repeat of the […]
Read MoreOn the bright side, Justin Trudeau got one promise right: Canada is back on the world stage. Sadly, it’s for all the wrong reasons after the prime minister accused the government of the world’s fifth largest economy of dispatching assassins to kill a Sikh separatist leader in broad daylight outside a Surrey, B.C. temple. The […]
Read MoreSo, there goes Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy, the much-vaunted plan to counter an increasingly quarrelsome China by improving relations with democracies in the region like… India. Not much is clear after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s stunning speech in the House of Commons that linked agents of the government of India with the June murder in B.C. […]
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