Articles by Michelle Zilio

Sep 14 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — The senior RCMP intelligence official charged with breaching Canada’s official secrets law oversaw a money-laundering probe into allegations that millions in defrauded Russian tax dollars, exposed by Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, were funneled through Canada, The Globe and Mail has learned.Cameron Jay Ortis, charged by the RCMP this week with illegally storing and communicating […]

Sep 12 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will be using a new plane to campaign across Canada after his original plane was damaged on the first day of the election campaign. The new plane will not be wrapped in the Liberal branding, but will still be an Air Transat plane, as the first one was. A spokesperson for […]

Sep 12 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Justin Trudeau took the Liberal campaign to Vancouver on Wednesday, marking his first stop on the party’s election tour and setting the tone for a high-stakes race in British Columbia. Mr. Trudeau led a rally for Tamara Taggart, a former television news anchor running for the Liberals in the riding of Vancouver Kingsway, on Wednesday […]

Aug 31 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — In her Calgary Nose Hill riding, a key Conservative MP is mobilizing for the election against the Trudeau government. At the age of 33, Michelle Rempel made history as the youngest-ever Canadian female cabinet minister. Now, the 39-year-old Conservative MP is one of the most prominent members of the Conservative power base heading into the […]

Aug 30 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadian and Chinese officials are in contact even after China accused Canada of collaborating with the United States to mislead the world about the arrest of a Huawei executive in Vancouver and the subsequent detentions of two Canadians in China. Ms. Freeland told reports on Friday in Toronto that […]

Jul 26 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Canadian-Egyptian groups are urging the federal government to condemn what they interpreted as a threat to outspoken expatriates made by an Egyptian cabinet minister in Toronto last weekend. Egypt’s Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Minister Nabila Makram made headlines after she told a community gathering in Toronto that anyone who criticized Egypt would be “sliced up,” […]

Jul 9 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he would continue Canada’s campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council if he becomes Prime Minister following this fall’s federal election. However, Mr. Scheer said he would not “sell out” Canadian principles, including democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights, in an effort to secure […]

Jul 2 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — The three main federal political parties have chartered planes for this fall’s election, cementing their logistical plans to crisscross Canada during the campaign. The Liberals, Conservatives and NDP confirmed to The Globe and Mail that they have booked planes to jet their leaders and campaign teams across the country to pitch their platforms to Canadians. […]

May 30 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — A delegation of Canadian parliamentarians has returned from China where they urged Chinese lawmakers to engage in high-level talks about the detention of two Canadians as a part of an effort to improve relations between the two countries. Joe Peschisolido, a Liberal MP who was on the delegation’s trip last week, said Chinese officials “noted” […]

May 15 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy says he welcomes Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s commitment to move Canada’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and recognize the city as the Israeli capital if elected later this year. Jason Greenblatt, an assistant to President Trump and special representative for international negotiations at the White House, said that while Canada […]

May 3 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Canadians have more a positive opinion of the country’s relationship with some major European powers and with Mexico than they do of ties with the United States, according to a new survey. A Nanos poll found that 86 per cent of Canadian respondents said they have a positive or somewhat positive opinion of Canada’s relationship […]

Apr 29 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Amnesty International is sounding the alarm over the Trudeau government’s tougher line on asylum seekers, saying Canada risks its global reputation as a welcoming place for refugees and would become another country to close its border to the world’s most vulnerable if it changed its asylum policy. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas director, is in […]

Apr 29 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Canadians’ views on immigrants and refugees have held steady over the past six months despite increasing political rhetoric about asylum seekers, a new survey shows. A poll by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, provided exclusively to The Globe and Mail, shows the question of whether immigration levels are too high continues to produce a […]

Mar 21 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — The leaders of Canada’s largest labour organization and a prominent national Muslim group say Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is emboldening far-right extremists by failing to call out Islamophobia following the New Zealand mosque shootings and attending events with people who promote hate speech.

Mar 6 2019 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Liberal MPs blocked an effort by the opposition on Wednesday to immediately invite Jody Wilson-Raybould back to a parliamentary committee to speak further about the government’s effort to put pressure on her to shelve the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., despite the former justice minister’s willingness to testify again. Rather, Liberal members of the […]