Dec 11 2018 — Maura Forrest — Postmedia — After more than a year spent outside the House of Commons, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will soon get his chance to win a seat and take on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau face-to-face. Trudeau is expected to announce a long-awaited byelection for early February in Burnaby South, where Singh was nominated in September. Singh says he’s […]
Nov 22 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — The federal government has paid nearly $2.3 million to house asylum seekers in Toronto hotels from August to the end of October, after the city complained earlier this year that its shelter system was overflowing from the influx of refugee claimants. Ottawa will continue to rent some hotel rooms until Jan. 4 for asylum seekers […]
Oct 10 2018 — Maura Forrest — It’s a Thursday evening on a wide residential street in suburban Burnaby, lined with manicured lawns and cars parked on both sides of the road, and a dapper man in a yellow turban is speaking into an intercom outside somebody’s front door. “It’s Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP,” he says. There’s a pause. Then: […]
Sep 7 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Despite a deadline that has come and gone, the federal government is refusing to say which provinces failed to submit carbon-pricing plans to Ottawa by Sept. 1, and is reluctant to criticize those that have not. In an interview Friday with the National Post, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc struck a conciliatory tone in the […]
Sep 6 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — With its tropical climate, oceanfront estates and dearth of taxes, the Bahamas has a lot to offer a wealthy young celebrity. But when news broke this week that tennis pro Eugénie Bouchard had become a resident of the Caribbean nation, she found herself the unlikely target of the man expected to be Quebec’s next premier. […]
Aug 23 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Stevan Utah fled to Canada in 2006, on the run from an Australian biker gang he said was out to kill him. A former informant for an Australian intelligence agency, Utah said he was outed that year by the very authorities who had employed him, and was nearly murdered by members of the Bandidos motorcycle […]
Aug 13 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is hitting back at Rachel Notley after coming under scathing criticism from the Alberta premier last week for comments he made about oil imports from Saudi Arabia. “I know that Premier Notley’s in a tough political fight. But I’ve always felt and I believe that personal attacks are beneath her,” […]
Aug 10 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — The federal government has cancelled a controversial Arctic surf clam licence that was intended to help Indigenous communities gain a foothold in a lucrative fishery, but instead led to criticism from First Nations and an investigation by the federal ethics watchdog. The fisheries department announced on Friday that the new licence, which would have awarded […]
Aug 9 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — U.S. President Donald Trump may want to build a wall along the Mexican border, but, in recent years, studies suggest the majority of unauthorized immigrants settling in the U.S. have arrived legally — not by crossing the border unlawfully. And according to a new U.S. government report, the largest group of people who enter the […]
Jun 27 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is pushing back against calls from Alberta and Saskatchewan to reform Canada’s equalization program, saying changes to the formula would be “disastrous” for his province and others. “Every province has benefited at one point from equalization… which means that it is a program that has helped all provinces and all […]
Jun 15 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — After a 12-hour filibuster that lasted through the night, the Conservatives ended their voting marathon on Friday morning, announcing they’d used “every tool” they have to force the Liberals to reveal the cost of their federal carbon tax. But the procedural tactic seems to have brought the Liberals no closer to releasing the documents the […]
Jun 14 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Senators are weighing the pros and cons of a showdown with the House of Commons over the government’s rejection of a number of Senate amendments to the cannabis legalization bill, including one that would have allowed provinces to ban home-grown marijuana. While some senators argue the government’s insistence on legalizing home cultivation paves the way […]
May 21 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — The federal government’s carbon tax could take a toll on Canada’s fishing industry, causing its competitiveness to “degrade relative to other nations,” according to an analysis from the fisheries department. Ottawa’s plans to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, through carbon pricing and other measures, could also make some energy-intensive fishing techniques non-competitive, according to a 2016 internal […]
Apr 17 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Amid criticism from the Conservatives that it has failed to provide enough information about the possible impacts of a price on carbon, the federal government has prepared analyses of how much its carbon tax would cut emissions and increase costs — but it has prepared them only for the three territorial governments. The analyses were […]
Mar 29 2018 — Maura Forrest — National Post — After what looked like the beginnings of a caucus revolt over Jagmeet Singh’s decision to discipline a veteran MP, the new NDP leader seemed on Wednesday to have calmed the waters. Sources within the party told the National Post the episode, which saw several MPs speak out publicly against Singh’s decision to punish Hamilton MP […]