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She knew. Chrystia Freeland knew. That’s what she told Canadians last year about increasing capital-gains taxes. It meant tax fairness...
There were going to be hockey clichés. Mark Carney launched his campaign for the Liberal leadership in an Edmonton hockey...
Eight months ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategists set an internal goal: gain five percentage points in opinion polls come...
You could see how things got awkward. The Prime Minister’s Office insisted on a GST holiday to buy votes and...
The election of Donald Trump has Pierre Poilievre talking about a crackdown, but it’s not just about security at the...
It’s surprising that Justin Trudeau was able to mount a second charm offensive with Donald Trump, eight years after the...
Justin Trudeau is talking about Team Canada again. Premiers met with the Prime Minister, virtually, to talk about Donald Trump’s...
It took just two weeks after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president again before some of Canada’s political leaders figured...
There’s a reason why Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign puts out social-media ads with middle-aged men saying they will vote for...
Nine months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told a television interviewer that if he were prime minister, he would not...
Interest rates are falling. Inflation is back down to the target level. Wages have finally caught up, on average, to...
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’s approval ratings are the lowest of any premier in Confederation, according to the Angus Reid...
The campaign director quit. Five chiefs of staff to cabinet ministers are leaving. A Liberal fundraiser was appointed to the...
Canadians can see why drug policy has become a big political issue. The opioids epidemic is tragic and visible. People...
Uh-oh. The Prime Minister says he has full confidence in his finance minister. Sounds like Chrystia Freeland is dangling at...
A year ago, the Liberal plan to fight the 2025 election was based on making Canadians fear Pierre Poilievre. Now...
This is a period of Liberal reflection, we are now told by Justin Trudeau himself. That is naturally needed to...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office declined to comment Sunday on a letter signed by several MPs calling for an immediate...
Witting. That’s the word in the latest report on foreign interference that changes things. In the latest review, we don’t...
For a textbook example of political debate unglued from real-world concerns, it’s hard to do better than Tuesday’s Question Period...
It seems a little early for the kitchen sink. But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals saw an opportunity, however slim...
When former columnist Sabrina Maddeaux announced last week that she was suspending her campaign for a Conservative Party nomination in...
It’s 2024, and Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has tabled the foreign-interference bill that would have been so useful in 2019...
Mark Carney might be setting the stage to run for the Liberal leadership after the next election. Or he might...
For a year, the Liberal government stood around flat-footed while revelations about the ArriveCan app spread into an indictment of...
Pierre Poilievre held a press event in a shopping-mall parking lot in Montréal’s West Island railing about big-city bureaucrats blocking...
In the long, strange series of hearings into the ArriveCan app, one of the most peculiar twists is that Conservative...
Pierre Poilievre stood in front of his cheering Conservative MPs on Sunday, rhetorically pummelling Justin Trudeau and revelling in his...
It didn’t take long for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to troop out to say the federal government will appeal...
While Pierre Poilievre claims that the new, updated Canada-Ukraine free-trade agreement would force Ukraine to adopt a carbon tax, there...
It’s true, as Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the Commons last week, that heating oil is different. It is...
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