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 […]
Oct 24 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Borys Wrzesnewskyj told his Liberal caucus colleagues Wednesday that he will not seek re-election next year in Etobicoke Centre, leaving one of the few Toronto-area ridings where the Conservatives think they have a chance next year without an incumbent. “I’m looking to spend a lot more time with my family,” Wrzesnewskyj said. He has three […]
Oct 23 2018 — David Akin — Global News — It’s a fight both sides want because both sides expect to win. And it’s personal. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went right to the backyard of Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday to fire the first shot in what will surely be a pitched battle from here until Oct. 21, 2019 — the date of Canada’s […]
Oct 22 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The voters are restless. This should come as no surprise to those who have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the last few years in our provincial politics. But this restlessness, this desire among many in the electorate for something new on their political menu, will be a key force shaping the […]
Oct 21 2018 — David Akin — Global News — With one year until the 2019 federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lead Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives by a nose, according to the latest Ipsos poll provided exclusively to Global News. Among decided and leaning voters surveyed by Ipsos, the Liberals had 36 per cent support compared to 35 per cent for the Conservatives. Jagmeet Singh and […]
Oct 15 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The Trudeau government has said remarkably little about the 13 Canadians currently being held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Each case, as Global News has been reporting over the last week, is unique ranging from children under five to a self-confessed ISIS sniper. But if there is a common denominator to each case, aside […]
Oct 2 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Everyone made history Monday in Quebec. For the first time in Quebec’s history, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ), led by François Legault, won power taking a commanding 74 seats in the 125-seat national assembly. The 12-year-old left-leaning separatist Quebec Solidaire hit historic highs in seats won — 10 — and in popular vote — 16 […]
Sep 27 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Minutes after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Canada’s NAFTA negotiating tactics and said he did not much care for Canada’s chief negotiator, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Trump’s emissary to Canada was praising Freeland for her intelligence and patience.