Jun 30 2022 — David Akin — Global News — Canada is set to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with more than three dozen new armoured personnel and some new drone cameras, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said as the NATO leaders’ summit in Madrid ended Thursday. Additionally, Canada will host two new NATO research centres, one which will focus on new security challenges brought on […]
Jun 8 2022 — David Akin — Global News — With American influence in Central and South America on the decline, analysts say Canada has a golden opportunity at this week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles to improve its standing and influence in among its hemispheric neighbours. The question is: will Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seize that opportunity? So far his track record […]
Apr 27 2022 — David Akin — Global News — The federal Conservatives want the RCMP to re-open an investigation that ended more than four years ago that examined whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed a criminal act by accepting a free holiday at the private Bahamas Island owned by the Aga Khan. Trudeau accepted the invitation from the Aga Khan to spend the 2016 […]
Apr 5 2022 — David Akin — Global News — In the midst of last summer’s federal election campaign, Canada fired up an unusual emergency loan program for Afghan nationals who had fled Afghanistan but found themselves short on funds in a third country while waiting to come to Canada.
Mar 31 2022 — David Akin — Global News — Canadians are looking to next week’s federal budget to signal that Ottawa understands the strain that the rapidly rising cost of living has put on household finances, suggests a new poll done exclusively for Global News by Ipsos. “Canadians are in many parts of this country, really, really feeling the pressure, especially people with more […]
Mar 14 2022 — David Akin — Global News — The federal carbon tax has boosted inflation by nearly half-a-percentage point, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem told members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance in a letter obtained by Global News.
Mar 2 2022 — David Akin — Global News — One of the leaders of the convoy protest that occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks last month was in court Wednesday, hoping to overturn an earlier judicial decision that she be held without bail until her trial on the charges of counselling to commit the offence of mischief and committing mischief. Tamara Lich, 49, of […]
Feb 6 2022 — David Akin — Global News — Weeks after being named the minister in charge of Canada Post, Filomena Tassi polled Canadians to see how they felt about making some radical changes at the Crown corporation. Those changes include shutting down rural post offices, ending all home delivery in favour of community mailboxes, and cutting back mail delivery to three times a […]
Jan 24 2022 — David Akin — Global News — The Quebec economy is strong but is punching below “its demographic weight”, suffering from labour shortages and is behind the national average when it comes productivity and market diversification, according to the briefing binder provided to the minister for the federal economic development agency in Quebec as she took office last October. Pascal St-Onge, a […]
Jan 6 2022 — David Akin — Global News — Canadian attitudes about COVID-19 dramatically shifted between the spring and late fall of last year, internal federal government polling shows, and shifted again with the rise of Omicron late in 2021. Not only that, the issues of greatest concern to Canadians had also shifted significantly just as the Trudeau government was beginning its third term […]
Dec 29 2021 — David Akin — Global News — In the early days of the pandemic, before anyone had their first vaccine, the federal government’s COVID Alert app was promoted as an important tool the country could use to help fight the spread of the virus.
Dec 16 2021 — David Akin — Global News — The Trudeau government’s aborted intention this week to ramp up travel restrictions amounts to little more than “political theatre” from a government that cannot produce data to support tightened travel rules, say multiple sources who work for premiers who participated in Tuesday’s First Ministers meeting. The meeting was called by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to […]
Dec 1 2021 — David Akin — Global News — It ought to have been a simple request. Filed electronically, the access-to-information request asked the department of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) for a memo, identified not only by title but also by the departmental tracking number GAC uses, that described a program to provide foreign diplomats hosted tours of Canada’s Arctic territories.
Sep 23 2021 — David Akin — Global News — As Justin Trudeau and his top advisors sit down to figure out who will be in his next cabinet, he starts with two rules. First, where possible, there should be at least one cabinet minister from each province. Second, the cabinet will have at least as many women as men in it. There can be […]
Sep 14 2021 — David Akin — Global News — I run my own seat model and, as of Monday morning, it had aggregated data from seven different pollsters who, cumulatively, have asked more than 13,000 Canadians in the last week how they’d vote. Plugging that aggregated data into my model, it looks like the country’s 44th general election will be a repeat in many […]