Jul 9 2019 — David Akin — Global News — On Monday, the minister of tourism, Melanie Joly, travelled from her riding in Montreal to Salmon River, N.B., in the riding of Fundy Royal, where she and the local MP, Liberal Alaina Lockhart, announced $1.7 million in federal funding for tourism projects, some of which were in Lockhart’s riding but most of which were not.
Jul 5 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in his own riding in Montreal on Thursday to confirm that the federal government will spend $1.3 billion to extend a subway line. For voters in Trudeau’s riding of Papineau who want their MP to bring home the bacon, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. That’s because, among other […]
Jul 3 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Canada’s small business minister Mary Ng wrapped up a two-day visit to China to promote Canadian small business Wednesday, even as the Chinese government was scolding Canada for trying to get U.S. President Donald Trump to help spring two jailed Canadians, one of whom is a small business operator.
Jun 30 2019 — David Akin — Global News — In 2015, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party — then the third party in the House of Commons — leapfrogged over Thomas Mulcair’s NDP to lead a coalition of progressive voters who had had enough of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Trudeau was rewarded with a strong majority government as many progressive voters took him at his word, for […]
Jun 28 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Former prime minister Jean Chretien and one of his former ministers, John McCallum, have been publicly and privately musing that Canada should just start patching things up with China by releasing Meng Wanzhou. “I think it’s shocking,” said University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran. “I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. If they want to make […]
Jun 20 2019 — David Akin — Global News — If there’s a precedent for a premier or a prime minister leading a majority government in this country to fire the finance minister in Year 1, I don’t know it. But that’s just what happened on Thursday at Queen’s Park when Premier Doug Ford upended his cabinet, demoting not only the minister who tabled his […]
Jun 19 2019 — David Akin — Global News — The top bureaucrat at Global Affairs Canada urged Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland last summer to champion freedom of expression at the United Nations Human Rights Council — yet also cautioned that too firm a push could threaten Canada’s campaign to win a seat on the UN Security Council.
Jun 10 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Six premiers asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday to change or bury two pieces of federal legislation that critics of both bills say could hurt Canada’s energy and natural resources sectors. The two bills are C-69, legislation that would change the way regulatory authorities evaluate and assess proposed new major resources projects, and C-48, […]
Jun 10 2019 — David Akin — Global News — A new third-party political action group will make its television debut Monday night ahead of the Raptors playoff game with two 30-second spots that attack Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Global News has learned. The ads come from a group called Shaping Canada’s Future, and they reprise the cast and theme of some advertising run by […]
May 7 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Every voter who marks a ballot for a Green candidate for the first time in their lives has their own motivations. Sure, it could be concern for climate change, a desire for a new approach to building a sustainable society. But it also seems clear that sharp anger at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s failed promises […]
May 1 2019 — David Akin — Global News — The federal Conservatives fired the first major volley in the 2019 election campaign Wednesday, unveiling a quintet of English-language television ads and one French-language ad that attack Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for betraying those who voted for him in 2015.
Apr 10 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Wednesday that Canada’s national police force must do better at processing requests it receives under the federal access-to-information law.
Apr 10 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s RCMP handlers were vetting The Bahamas as a vacation destination for the prime minister at least nine months before Trudeau took his family on the 2016-2017 Christmas vacation that would cause so much controversy, according to a new document provided to Global News as a result of a request under federal […]
Mar 26 2019 — David Akin — Global News — “The Liberal Party needs to be the best version of the Liberal Party,” Jane Philpott said as she explained to Maclean’s why, after quitting cabinet and raising doubts about the judgment of its leader on a crucial rule-of-law issue, she remained committed to her party and was desirous of remaining in the Liberal caucus. Philpott’s […]
Mar 22 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Within a day of the official launch of the 2019 Alberta election, the Alberta NDP had already dropped a nasty negative ad. The ad attacked United Conservative Party (UCP) leader Jason Kenney for comments he made 20 years ago about a campaign he was involved in 30 years ago, in which he challenged the idea […]