Feb 19 2019 — David Akin — Global News — The Trudeau government is leaking political support in the wake of the resignation of its former justice minister, making its chances of re-election this fall far less certain than they seemed to be at year’s end, according to a new poll provided exclusively to Global News.
Jan 30 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Nearly three out of four Canadians living west of Ontario believe their province is not treated fairly by the federal government, according to a new poll from the not-for-profit Angus Reid Institute. And Westerners who feel that way — that the rest of the country is not giving them any respect — say it’s been […]
Jan 24 2019 — David Akin — Global News — A Quebec shipyard hopeful of getting more federal work has condemned a storied Coast Guard ship as beyond repair, declining to bid on a lucrative contract to overhaul the 56-year-old CCGS Hudson on the grounds that it “presents a serious and real threat to the safety of life at sea.”
Jan 22 2019 — David Akin — Global News — The federal NDP, these days, is throwing everything it has to get its leader, Jagmeet Singh, elected in a byelection in a riding in B.C. where the party has long had deep roots even as it appears to be all but conceding a byelection in the beachhead established by its former leader, Thomas Mulcair, in […]
Jan 11 2019 — David Akin — Global News — As a card-carrying member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery’s pundit class, I am contractually obligated to engage in some cabinet shuffle speculation, now that Nova Scotia veteran MP Scott Brison has announced his intention to quit his post as president of the Treasury Board.
Jan 3 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Internal polling prepared for the Privy Council Office shows that the carbon tax-and-rebate program the Trudeau Liberals will impose on four provinces beginning in April is not necessarily as popular as the Liberals believe it to be, but it also doesn’t appear to be as unpopular as Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives are counting on.
Jan 1 2019 — David Akin — Global News — Canadian voters unhappy with the political status quo have always been willing to shake things up and in 2019, there’s a better-than-even chance that a preference to turn electoral politics upside down will be a major factor in the country’s 43rd general election.
Dec 5 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The Trudeau government has told the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal it should not grant intervenor status to Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party and should reject an affidavit from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in a key test case on the constitutional right of the federal government to impose a national carbon tax.
Nov 28 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The federal government was actively seeking billions of dollars in new business opportunities in Saudi Arabia last spring, opportunities that abruptly dried up with a single tweet issued in August by Canada’s embassy in Riyadh. Briefing notes and other documents obtained by Global News show that Francois-Philippe Champagne, then the international trade minister in the […]
Nov 21 2018 — David Akin — Global News — All week long in the House of Commons, the opposition Conservatives have been hectoring the governing Liberals about their 2015 election campaign promise to balance the federal budget by the time voters go to the polls in 2019. And this afternoon, Finance Minister Bill Morneau confirmed what everyone all along knew: There will be no […]
Nov 19 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Navdeep Bains, the Trudeau cabinet minister responsible for Statistics Canada, said he first learned of the federal agency’s controversial plan to harvest the financial transaction data of potentially millions of Canadians as a result of media reports and not, as the law requires, in a written notification from the country’s chief statistician.
Nov 10 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Young, fresh-faced Canada sent 424,000 men overseas to fight in the First World War and nearly 61,000 of them were killed on foreign soil, far, far, far away from their homes in their 50-year-old country. Those Canadians rest now in cemeteries all over Europe and their sacrifice helped forge a nation.
Nov 2 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The federal New Democrats joined the opposition Conservatives Friday in demanding that the Trudeau government suspend or shut down some controversial Statistics Canada plans to harvest the personal financial data of 500,000 Canadians without their consent.
Oct 31 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The Privacy Commissioner of Canada says it’s launching an investigation after Statistics Canada requested the commissioner take a second look at a controversial data project which would see the federal agency gather detailed financial transaction information on hundreds of thousands of Canadians with neither their consent nor notification.
Oct 28 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Maxime Bernier celebrated his appointment as Stephen Harper’s industry minister at a swanky bar just off Parliament Hill in the early spring of 2006. As his supporters toasted him with wine and spritzers, a reporter asked about his priorities. Bernier, with a big grin on his face, promised he would gut Statistics Canada, one of […]