Mar 16 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The coronation of Canada’s new King is less than two months away and the country is split up the middle on whether it’s time to cut ties with the Crown, a new poll suggests. A Leger survey of 1,544 Canadians found 56 per cent of respondents agreed the country should “reconsider its ties” to the […]
Mar 14 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday the Liberal government’s inaction on alleged election meddling by China has some Canadian voters wondering whether recent election results can be trusted. Speaking to reporters after a drug-related announcement in B.C., Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has “inspired a lot of suspicion” because of his refusal to answer […]
Mar 8 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asked some pointed questions of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday about his government’s handling of Chinese election interference. Trudeau hit back with a question of his own: Why are Conservative MPs who met with a far-right German politician still in the Tory caucus? Under pressure from the Conservatives to state exactly […]
Mar 7 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre slammed the federal Liberal government over its handling of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) file Tuesday, saying Canada missed its opportunity to supply Europe with the fossil fuel. Europe faced a serious supply crunch last year as it weaned itself off Russian oil and gas following Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. […]
Mar 6 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Conservative MP Ed Fast said Monday he will soon table a bill to repeal a Liberal law that allows the mentally ill to access medical assistance in dying (MAID). Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill, Fast said the MAID regime, first introduced by the Liberal government in 2016, should have never been extended to people […]
Mar 3 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back at questions Friday about calling a public inquiry into claims that Beijing interfered in Canada’s recent elections, telling reporters that the probes already underway are sufficient. Trudeau is under pressure from his political opponents to launch an inquiry after media reports citing unnamed sources said the Chinese communist regime […]
Mar 3 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Monarchists in Canada say they’re troubled by the fact that the federal government hasn’t said yet how the country will celebrate King Charles’s coronation — a historic event for the head of state that is just two months away. Royal-watchers say that as a senior member of the Commonwealth of Nations with close historic ties […]
Mar 2 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The commissioner of Canada Elections, the watchdog that enforces Canada’s federal election laws, says her office has launched an investigation into allegations of foreign interference in the last two federal election campaigns. After recent reports about Chinese interference in Canada’s democracy, Caroline Simard said Thursday that her office has received serious complaints about meddling that […]
Mar 1 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — While multiple media reports have detailed allegations of foreign interference, including attempts to co-opt candidates, the top bureaucrat at the Department of Public Safety said Wednesday there are no active RCMP investigations underway into the last election. “I can confirm that the RCMP is not investigating any of allegations that are arising from the last […]
Mar 1 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The federal Liberal government’s COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing policy is facing yet another challenge after Maryland-based Novavax announced late Tuesday it may not have enough cash in a year’s time to stay in business. That means three pillars of the government’s made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine procurement strategy have failed or could soon fail. In addition to this […]
Feb 16 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tabled a motion in the House of Commons Thursday to force Liberal MPs to condemn Ontario’s experiment with more private delivery of common surgeries. The motion calls on MPs to “express disappointment” in the prime minister for calling Ontario’s plan a form of “innovation.” Trudeau has said he’s open to ideas […]
Feb 16 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Thousands of Canadian-born doctors are working abroad at a time when the country is facing an acute shortage of physicians — and there’s little prospect of them practising here because of barriers that block foreign-trained professionals from launching a career at home. While it’s difficult to establish just how many Canadian doctors are working overseas, […]
Feb 10 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The country’s health-care system is suffering from an acute shortage of doctors — even as hundreds of qualified Canadian physicians trained abroad are turned away each year because of a tangle of red-tape and bias, experts say. Canada is passing up a chance to add hundreds of these Canadian doctors to a strained system because, […]
Feb 6 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The federal Conservatives are calling on the auditor general to probe the government’s use of consulting firm McKinsey for outside advice — a company the Tories say deserves close scrutiny because of its past ties to China and the opioid crisis. McKinsey has received more than $100 million in government contracts over the last seven […]
Jan 30 2023 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — Parliament is back after a six-week break and the Liberal government is facing aggressive questions from the opposition bench about a number of ethical missteps and the sorry state of Canada’s health-care system — two issues that are poised to dominate this spring sitting. On the ethics front, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on the […]