Sep 15 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Six former Canadian justice and foreign affairs ministers have penned an open letter urging China to immediately release an ailing Chinese dissident and allow him to return to Canada to live with his family. Wang Bingzhang, a human-rights advocate who studied at McGill University’s faculty of medicine, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for […]
Aug 11 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not committed to keeping Bill Morneau on as the key architect of the federal government’s economic revival plan after the two men clashed over the Finance Department’s policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, sources say. Insiders say Mr. Trudeau is uncertain whether Mr. Morneau is the right fit to navigate […]
Jul 14 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — The Canada-U.S. border will remain temporarily closed to non-essential travel until at least Aug. 21 amid Canadians’ concerns about surging COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to sources. Despite mounting pressure from some U.S. politicians in northern states and border communities to reopen the border, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made clear Monday that he […]
Jun 30 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is urging Canadian political leaders to prepare for a post COVID-19 world by adopting bold economic and social policies including a dramatic increase in immigration, a serious productivity agenda and concrete action to address systemic racism and the injustices faced by Indigenous people. Mr. Mulroney told The Globe and Mail […]
Jun 6 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says he was brutally beaten by RCMP officers and his wife manhandled after they left a popular casino-nightclub in Fort McMurray, Alta., on March 10, the kind of alleged police violence that he argues happens all too frequently to Indigenous Canadians. Chief Adam, who was recently […]
Apr 16 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — The organization representing Canada’s largest corporations is urging the country’s first ministers to take a co-ordinated and cautious approach to reopening the economy and lifting stay-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus. Goldy Hyder, president of the Business Council of Canada, wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers and territorial leaders before their weekly […]
Apr 13 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — U.S. and Canadian officials are holding talks that will almost certainly lead to an agreement to keep the land border closed to non-essential travel for at least another few weeks, sources say. The border between Canada and the United States was restricted to all non-essential travel on March 21, for a 30-day period that ends […]
Mar 23 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a conference call with Canada’s First Ministers Monday morning amid a new report that the economy could remain in a standstill until August and shed hundreds of thousands of jobs. The dire warning about a much deeper and longer recession comes as Ottawa is being urged to invoke the […]
Feb 3 2020 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — New gun-control legislation will include “red flag” laws to remove guns from people deemed by the courts to be at risk of hurting themselves or someone else, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says. Mr. Blair told The Globe and Mail that the proposed red flag laws will allow police, doctors, lawyers, educators and loved ones […]
Dec 27 2019 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Canada and the United States have signed a memo of understanding to reduce their reliance on China for rare-earth minerals that are critical to high-tech and military products, such as smartphones, electric cars and weapons guidance systems. Officials in both countries have been working since August to develop an action plan for specialty mineral projects […]
Jul 2 2019 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Chinese authorities have confiscated the reading glasses of imprisoned Canadian Michael Kovrig as Beijing increases political and economic pressure on Canada to allow a detained senior Huawei Technologies executive to return home, sources say. The confiscation is the latest move by Chinese authorities against Mr. Kovrig and fellow Canadian, Michael Spavor, who are now in […]
Dec 11 2018 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — The U.S. ambassador to Canada says President Donald Trump is fond of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau despite tensions that arose during tough talks to renegotiate the North American free-trade deal. Mr. Trump and some of his top advisers have hurled insults at Mr. Trudeau during the contentious trade talks over the past year. The President […]
Nov 7 2018 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has called in the RCMP after fraudsters created fake LinkedIn and parliamentary e-mail accounts in her name to lure money from constituents in the minister’s Vancouver Granville riding. David Taylor, the minister’s communications director, told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s office became aware of the scam […]
Jul 26 2018 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will decide in mid-August whether to pursue a ban on handguns as part of a new legislative agenda he would outline in a fall Throne Speech, a senior official says. Mr. Trudeau has asked a team of advisers to examine the pros and cons of proroguing Parliament and starting over with […]
Jul 26 2018 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Transport Minister Marc Garneau is unlikely to provide federal subsidies to Greyhound to maintain passenger services in Western Canada, preferring to provide loan guarantees to local bus companies, according to a senior government official. Greyhound has been lobbying the federal government to set up a fund to subsidize the bus service on routes it is […]