
Chrystia Freeland’s political estrangement from Justin Trudeau is both shocking and understandable
Shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Chrystia Freeland as his deputy PM in 2019, they began having weekly meetings...
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Shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Chrystia Freeland as his deputy PM in 2019, they began having weekly meetings...
He may be bluffing, but we can’t take the chance. The federal government must assume that Donald Trump intends to...
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are unlikely to hold onto the Greater Vancouver riding of Cloverdale-Langley City in the Dec. 16 by-election...
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is making two demands of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in exchange for his party’s support...
The commentariat is obsessed with the federal Liberal loss last week in the once-safe Montreal riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun. Few, in...
Justin Trudeau’s latest Senate appointments demonstrate both the strengths and weaknesses of the Prime Minister’s purportedly non-partisan approach. On the...
No wonder Conservatives are champing at the bit for an election. This week’s cabinet retreat suggests the Liberals have simply...
Everybody is wondering whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down before the next federal election. They should be asking...
TLN aired an interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, on the weekend. If Prime Minister Justin...
There are good reasons to believe that a Kamala Harris administration would be a friend to Canada, now that President...
The shocking result in the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election leaves the Liberals with only one question: should they lose the next...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland appears to be attempting to embarrass Pierre Poilievre by forcing the Conservative Leader to vote against...
A few weeks ago, a friend who lives in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s heard the doorbell ring. It was...
Justin Trudeau was hoping his housing budget would reverse the government's slide in popularity. Instead, things have gotten worse. For...
In its well-meaning effort to encourage the migration of international students to Canada, the Trudeau government is turning swaths of...
The carbon price is a dead tax walking. NDP leaders Jagmeet Singh and Wab Kinew are both helping to kill...
Monday’s by-election in Durham signalled a final coda for what used to be the Erin O’Toole Conservative Party and further...
More than a decade ago, Justin Trudeau took a dispirited, strife-torn, third-place Liberal Party and recreated it in his own...
For no good reason, but several bad ones, the Conservatives have once again opposed an updated free-trade agreement with Ukraine...
Next Nov. 5, Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, could be elected its 47th president. If that happens...
Pierre Poilievre’s 15-minute advertisement masquerading as a mini-documentary on the housing crisis contains inaccuracies and distortions. That doesn’t matter. The...
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