Jun 10 2022 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — “On the advice.” Those three words were at the heart of a heated political clash on Parliament Hill Thursday. A top contender for the Conservative leadership is now calling for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to resign, while Mendicino says he is appalled with how the Tories are twisting his words. At issue is how […]
Jan 30 2022 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — Business is business, but it’s not Jamie Deith’s dream to sell his precious graphite to China. The crystalline carbon mineral is among those required for electric vehicle batteries, a 21st-century technology that is sparking what some call a “global arms race” for supplies, refining capacity and manufacturing. But Canada, despite the federal government’s grand vision […]
Oct 13 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — A Conservative MP and former Tory whip says parliamentarians should be allowed to work in the House of Commons even if they choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a position he believes is consistent with his party leader’s opposition to vaccination mandates during the recent election campaign. Mark Strahl, the Conservative MP for the […]
Oct 2 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — In one of her last acts as leader of the Green Party of Canada, Annamie Paul stared into her computer screen to address the party’s federal council on Tuesday night. Her year of bitter discord with officials at the top of the Green organization had finally pushed her to announce, one day earlier, that she […]
Sep 14 2021 — Alex Ballingall — The Record — Polls suggest the Conservatives and Liberals are locked in a tight race for the final sprint to election day, as Erin O’Toole made his most pointed attack on Justin Trudeau since the start of the federal campaign. According to the latest numbers from The Signal, a statistical model that analyzes public polling data to forecast […]
Sep 4 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — The far-right People’s Party of Canada could have more national support than the federal Green party, according to an analysis of polling data for the ongoing election campaign. The analysis, which is dubbed The Signal and conducted for the Star by Vox Pop Labs, shows the People’s Party with 4.5 per cent support nationally, compared […]
Aug 26 2021 — Alex Ballingall — St. Catharines Standard — If Jon Evenchick gets a tattoo of Jagmeet Singh’s face, it’ll be on his left shoulder blade and about twice the size of a toonie. Evenchick, who runs a comedy and music venue in downtown Ottawa, wrote on Twitter this week that he’ll get the ink if 5,000 users share his post. And while he […]
Jul 27 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — The vast majority of those vying for spots on the Green party’s most powerful governing body either oppose Annamie Paul’s leadership or won’t say whether they support her. The lack of public backing from candidates for the Greens’ federal council raises questions about whether challenges to Paul’s leadership will continue, despite her claims she is […]
Jul 23 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — The Green party’s interim president is blaming embattled leader Annamie Paul for the need to launch a court challenge as top officials continue their effort to depose her before they are replaced in party elections next month. Liana Canton Cusmano — the president of the party’s federal council and one of the officials trying to […]
Jul 9 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — Annamie Paul’s chief rival in last year’s Green leadership race says the embattled politician can save herself from party operatives trying to oust her — if she takes responsibility for the loss of a Green MP who defected to the Liberals. In an interview with the Star, Dimitri Lascaris said he believes Paul can “rehabilitate […]
May 18 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — The federal government will pump more than $190 million into the expansion of a Mississauga medical facility to boost Canada’s capacity to make specialized vaccines in the coming years, the Star has learned. The money is meant to cover roughly half the cost of a $400-million project to expand facilities owned by Resilience Biotechnologies, which […]
Apr 30 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — Green Leader Annamie Paul vented frustration with how top party officials were preventing her from making key decisions in the first months of her leadership, according to an audio recording of an internal meeting that was obtained by the Star. The recording from Feb. 11 is the first direct evidence that Paul agrees with more […]
Apr 8 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Toronto Star — Two high-ranking officials in the federal Green party broke their silence Thursday and denied that leader Annamie Paul is facing resistance inside the party. The denials come after a top member of Paul’s political circle and several other Green insiders told the Star that Paul is facing obstacles from powerful officials that threaten her success […]
Apr 7 2021 — Alex Ballingall — St. Catharines Standard — Green Leader Annamie Paul is facing obstacles inside her party that threaten her success as Canada’s first Black political leader, according to several Green insiders and a top member of her political circle. Over her first six months as leader, Paul has endured “significant resistance” from high-ranking officials on the Green party’s most powerful governing […]
Jan 12 2021 — Alex Ballingall — Peterborough Examiner — The 905 is a key political battleground. And just as questions about a coming federal election grow louder in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said goodbye to a top political lieutenant with strong roots and a solid track record in the crucial suburban region around Canada’s biggest city.