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 […]
Sep 6 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole and his top campaign aide tried to distance them from one of the country’s controversial firearms lobby groups after the Liberals tried to attack the Tories for striking some sort of deal with what the Liberals refer to as the “gun lobby.” The Conservatives have been under fire on the […]
Sep 4 2021 — David Akin — Global News — The Liberal Party of Canada unleashed a trio of television ads Saturday attacking Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives using the trifecta of oft-tried Liberal wedge issues: abortion, gun control and two-tier health care. The ads, all in English, are each 30-second spots titled, “The Record,” “In His Own Words,” and “Take Back Canada.” The ads, […]
Aug 31 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said anti-vaccine protesters that have disrupted some of his Ontario campaign events ought to be condemned and that his chief opponent, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, had not done enough to “correct” those protestors. It was Trudeau’s strongest language yet since one group of protesters forced the party to cancel an event […]
Aug 28 2021 — David Akin — Global News — In all of Canada’s 154-year history, just 48 Indigenous men and women have been elected to the House of Commons. The last two Parliaments, after the 2015 and 2019 elections, saw the high-water mark for Indigenous representatives, with 11 elected each time. But for many Indigenous leaders — and for some party leaders — that’s […]
Aug 25 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Ask a campaigning NDP leader if they would support this party or that party in a potential minority government and every NDP leader is trained to say the same thing: They’re running to be prime minister. It’s what Jack Layton said. It’s what Thomas Mulcair said. And during a campaign stop here Wednesday, it’s what […]
Aug 22 2021 — David Akin — Global News — At the end of the first week of Canada’s 44th general election, it was clearer than ever that, this time, British Columbia voters will play an outsize role in determining the winner on September 20. Don’t take my word for it. Consider the amount of attention each campaign paid to winning over voters on the […]
Jul 22 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Erin O’Toole’s office gave nearly $240,000 worth of taxpayer-funded contracts to Conservative insiders in his first six months on the job, Global News has learned, even while O’Toole and many of his MPs were hammering the Trudeau Liberals for sending taxpayer-funded contracts to Liberal-connected firms. Moreover, O’Toole has allowed his deputy chief of staff, Steve […]
Jul 17 2021 — David Akin — Global News — The Nova Scotia Liberals kicked off their campaign Saturday to win a third mandate and it was a campaign launch fuelled in large part with lots of cash from the party’s federal cousins in Ottawa. In the week leading up to Saturday’s writ drop, the Trudeau Liberals played what amounted to a starring role to […]
Jul 13 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Elections Nova Scotia officials held a technical briefing for journalists on Monday to explain how the next provincial general election in that province will work. And just about the first thing provincial chief elections officer Richard Temporale told reporters at that briefing was that neither he nor anyone at his agency has any knowledge of […]
Jul 4 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Federal government advertising campaigns millions of Canadians are seeing this spring and summer urging them to get vaccinated have their origins in federal government polling done early last winter, as the country was grappling with the second wave of COVID-19 infections, according to documents obtained by Global News.
Jun 16 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Green Party Leader Annamie Paul is considering her next steps, Global News has learned, after her party’s governing federal council threatened her Tuesday night with a non-confidence vote if she failed to repudiate a former advisor in her office who many party members — and the two remaining Green MPs — hold responsible for the […]
Jun 1 2021 — David Akin — Global News — Alice. Victor (Fort Resolution). (Baby) Redbreast. Jack B. Mona. Those are but five of the 4,118 names listed in the National Student Memorial Register, the registry of all those Indigenous children known to have perished at a residential school. Five names of children who were so little known to their minders that they are not […]
May 23 2021 — David Akin — Global News — The federal NDP will press Parliament’s Information Commissioner to investigate how and why a Trudeau cabinet minister’s officer began a process that may have resulted in an attempt to interfere with the access-to-information process, a key transparency and accountability mechanism used by tens of thousands of Canadians every year.
May 21 2021 — David Akin — Global News — A bevy of recent polls, including one done exclusively for Global News by Ipsos, show that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals enjoy the kind of support that would likely translate into a majority government if a Canadian election were held this month. But a deeper dive into the numbers shows one regional shift that is perhaps startling […]