Apr 20 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the long way around to get to his party’s biennial convention this weekend in Halifax. He left Ottawa last Thursday, flew to Peru for the Summit of the Americas, flew back to Ottawa for his own ‘pipeline summit’, then off to Paris, and finally here to London for the Commonwealth […]
Apr 17 2018 — David Akin — Global News — As RCAF01 taxied down the runway at Le Bourget airport here, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from his cabin to come to the rear of the plane where his political staff, bureaucrats and journalists sit. He was seeking out Gabrielle Cesvet, one of the speechwriters on his staff, to present her with a signed copy […]
Apr 15 2018 — David Akin — Global News — On the eve of the so-called pipeline summit on Parliament Hill, its host, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, stood at podium in Peru and calmly deflected every attempt to tease out of him what he plans do at this summit. It’s a bit of a last-minute affair.
Apr 12 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not even left the country for his latest international trip — a three-country, nine-day tour which begins Thursday — and he is already under fire for this travel.
Apr 8 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security advisor, Daniel Jean, has agreed to testify in front of a parliamentary committee. He is expected to provide to committee members — each of them Members of Parliament — the same information that was provided on background by a senior government official to a handful of news organizations about […]
Apr 2 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The federal government’s failure to fill vacancies on the board of directors of the Great Lakes Pilotage Authority may have put shipping safety at risk and led to the reimbursement of thousands of dollars in inappropriate travel expenses, the Auditor General of Canada concluded in a report quietly released late last month.
Mar 28 2018 — David Akin — Global News — IBM Canada advised federal bureaucrats working for both the Harper government and the Trudeau government to delay the start date for the troubled federal payroll project known as Phoenix, advice bureaucrats working for both administrations could not accept, Global News has learned.
Mar 26 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Conservative MP Brad Trost could find himself in hot water with the House of Commons ethics commissioner in the wake of a fundraising campaign he’s initiated to help cover his legal bills in a legal action against his own party, according to two lawyers with expertise in the area.
Mar 22 2018 — David Akin — Global News — As veteran political journalist Susan Delacourt detailed in her book Shopping for Votes, Canada’s political parties — like parties around the world — have been making heavy use of Facebook for years to find supporters, engage with them and encourage them to vote, volunteer and donate.
Mar 15 2018 — David Akin — Global News — There are Liberals at Queen’s Park who, if you ask them what’s in their playbook to win this spring’s general election in Ontario, will tell you that the central, perhaps vital, hinge in their plans is the expectation that their main opponents, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, will fall flat on their faces.
Feb 23 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Had it just been the snickering from the usual suspects about his clothes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likely would have ended his week in India with little political damage and possibly even a bump in popularity in Canada’s large Indian diaspora. But some bad press turned worse, much worse, when it emerged that a man […]
Feb 15 2018 — David Akin — Global News — It was the best of the Trudeau government. It was the worst of the Trudeau government. The week’s news in Crown-Indigenous relations has been a remarkable and busy one but it’s also been one which put on display all those things that fans of the Trudeau government love about the Trudeau government while simultaneously shining […]
Jan 21 2018 — David Akin — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among the headliners when 3,000 of the world’s elite business leaders, activists and politicians gather this week for the annual invite-only World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But while Trudeau and his ministers will be talking up Canada as they network at the $71,000-a-ticket confab, their minds will very […]
Jan 9 2018 — David Akin — Global News — The Trudeau government‘s fall legislative activity last year was the slowest of any government going back to at least 2001 with just eight bills introduced between September and December of 2017, according to a Global News analysis of a database published by the Library of Parliament.
Jan 5 2018 — David Akin — Global News — After just over two years in office, the Trudeau Liberals have made nearly 9,000 spending announcements, easily eclipsing the 7,300 spending announcements made during the four-year majority government of their predecessors, the Harper Conservatives. The combined value of all those Liberal announcements made in just over two years stands at $34.27 billion versus the combined […]