Aug 30 2020 — David Olive — The Record — In the short space of the next four weeks, the Trudeau government will design not just a proposed economic recovery plan for Canada, but a lasting economic renaissance only a notch or two shy of Sir John A. Macdonald’s National Policy in its impact. The government will present highlights of its plans for pandemic economic […]
Jul 4 2020 — David Olive — Toronto Star — We are at least a year away from getting vaccines that protect us from COVID-19. While not a blessing, we will need that time to plan history’s biggest mass inoculation. There will be no “silver bullet” vaccine. Instead, it is expected that several viable vaccines will emerge from laboratories worldwide, but each with limited, specific […]
Jan 20 2020 — David Olive — Toronto Star — It’s likely that sometime this year, control of the $13-billion Trans Mountain pipeline, one of the biggest megaprojects in Canadian history, will be transferred to First Nations investors. That transaction would be a historic turning point in relations between the First Nations and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada.
Jul 30 2016 — David Olive — Toronto Star — This might seem a curious time for Ottawa to make a 180-degree turn in trying to restore healthy relations with Russia. But there were Stéphane Dion, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, meeting Monday on the neutral ground of a Pacific nations summit in Laos for a 30-minute cover-the-waterfront talk on […]
Jul 15 2013 — David Olive — A wistful Jim Flaherty, who keeps his post as finance minister in Monday’s federal cabinet shuffle, fanned the speculation last November that he might soon step down at finance and indeed quit politics altogether.