Mar 20 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — In the dry, introductory pages of the federal budget — the pages which most budget-readers flip past to get to the numbers — there’s a valiant attempt to frame what the Liberals’ pre-election fiscal policy is trying to achieve. After the usual self-congratulations for all the fabulous measures of the past, paragraph after paragraph makes […]
Mar 15 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — It all seemed so straightforward last summer. Sensing a souring of public opinion around the sanctimonious tone of their progressive agenda, and approaching an election year, the Liberals started sharpening their emphasis on pocketbook issues.
Jul 9 2016 — Heather Scoffield — The Canadian Press — As the relentless Ottawa sun roasted overzealous civil servants trying to shut down a little girls’ lemonade stand on National Capital Commission property and then blazed brightly over a few thousand VIPs at the U.S. embassy’s swish Fourth of July party, the capital was also quietly dealing with some political low pressure systems this week. […]
May 7 2016 — Heather Scoffield — The Canadian Press — Partisan politics took a back seat to partnership this week as Parliament Hill came together in support of the people of wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray. The terrifying images of residents fleeing down towering corridors of encroaching flames obscured some subtle yet fundamental shifts in Canada’s political landscape, as well as astute observations about the federal government’s […]
Sep 10 2013 — Heather Scoffield — The Canadian Press — If the reams of statistics released from the 2011 census and its controversial new cousin, the National Household Survey, teach us anything, it’s that there is no such thing as the quintessential Canadian. Now that Statistics Canada has published almost all of its findings, Canadians know their country is aging. But they also know the […]
Jun 25 2013 — Heather Scoffield — The state of Canada’s workforce — and Stephen Harper’s attempts to beef it up — will be under the microscope Wednesday as Statistics Canada releases the latest chapter of its replacement for the long-form census.