Jul 2 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — In his final column as host of The House, Chris Hall talks with three political strategists to examine the intersection between two of his favourite subjects: politics and baseball. There’s a saying that life imitates art. But for my money, there’s another comparison that’s equally true. Politics imitates baseball. Here’s the pitch. Politics and baseball […]
Jun 24 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Justin Trudeau says people who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 must accept the consequences of those decisions, including lost employment and restricted access to transportation and other services. “It was their choice and nobody ever was going to force anyone into doing something they don’t want to do,” the prime minister said in […]
Jun 11 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his government is preparing to reinstate a program that would help to speed up the process of turning newcomers in Canada under temporary permits into permanent residents. “We are looking right now at the best path forward to create a permanent pathway for temporary residents,” he told CBC’s The House […]
Jun 4 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino spent much of the past week on the road, promoting his government’s new gun control bill to Canadians just as Canadians witnessed another wave of mass shootings south of the border. But for all the attention being paid to proposed measures that would freeze handgun ownership in this country, ban […]
May 21 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Experts tell CBC’s The House that no one should expect inflation to ease off soon. The economist Thomas Sowell once said that inflation is just a way to take people’s money without having to openly raise taxes. But you don’t have to tell that to Annette Murray and her husband Tom McGregor. The Vancouver couple, […]
May 7 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai visited Canada this week — a two-day, two-city visit with International Trade Minister Mary Ng intended to showcase the closeness of the Canada-U.S. relationship. Two countries that share the same democratic values in a tumultuous world. Two governments committed to expanding trade. Neighbours. Partners. Friends. There are points of friction, […]
Apr 23 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — America’s top diplomat in Ottawa says he’s been assured Canada will follow through this year on crucial investments to modernize its Arctic defence, even though this month’s budget didn’t include money for that work. Ambassador David Cohen told CBC’s The House in an interview airing this weekend that Canada needs to make Arctic air and […]
Apr 16 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Lachi Mainali and Lachsman Koirala stood outside a mustard-coloured house on a corner lot in Timberlea, a suburban community outside Halifax. It’s a long way from the downtown hospital where they work in housekeeping. But they’re priced out of the real estate market in the city. This home — a split level with four bedrooms […]
Apr 5 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — In her first budget a year ago, Chrystia Freeland told Canadians that there was a risk of doing too little to secure the post-pandemic recovery. As the finance minister prepares to deliver her second financial plan later this week, there’s every expectation that she will continue to spend. Between the Liberals’ own election pledges — […]
Mar 12 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Canada’s first emissions reduction plan will be tabled in the House of Commons in two weeks. But the minister in charge says it won’t include specific details on how to meet the federal government’s sales targets for zero-emission cars and trucks over the next decade. The federal plan is to require that half of all […]
Mar 5 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — The explosion of misleading and false information online in recent years will be difficult for governments to regulate on their own, say MPs who have themselves been targets of disinformation campaigns. “Can we actually regulate this? My gut instinct is no,” said Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who took part in a panel discussion airing […]
Feb 26 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — A former top NATO diplomat says she doesn’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons if western countries intervene to stop his invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. Putin warned this week that members of the western military alliance would face “consequences that you have never encountered in your history” — a warning that many observers interpreted […]
Feb 5 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Call it a protest. An occupation. A siege. Whatever your word of choice, downtown Ottawa continues to be the site of a huge demonstration. Its participants, those in the trucks and in the streets, are issuing conflicting demands, ranging from calls for the Trudeau government to capitulate on the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers to […]
Jan 22 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — Canada must continue to engage with China despite its ongoing concerns about the country’s human rights record at home — and new evidence of its efforts to coerce dissidents living abroad to return. That’s the message from two Canadians with extensive experience working inside China. They spoke to CBC’s The House in an interview airing […]
Jan 15 2022 — Chris Hall — CBC — A Liberal MP who works as a medical doctor says he’s in favour of making unvaccinated Canadians pay some kind of a special tax — and he believes others in his party agree. “We already have taxes on tobacco. We have taxes on alcohol, which are there for similar reasons because people who consume those […]