Mar 13 2019 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — Less than two days after taking the prime ministerial jet to Florida for his spring vacation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used it to quietly return to Ottawa for a day of ‘private meetings.’ Trudeau and his family are currently spending spring break in a house on North Captiva Island, a remote tourist destination off the […]
Mar 12 2019 — Tristin Hopper — Postmedia — As another round of SNC-Lavalin revelations broke over the weekend, Justin Trudeau was spotted taking a breather in a remote corner of Southwest Florida. “Canada’s prime minister, embroiled in a political scandal, is now escaping to Southwest Florida,” announced NBC 2, a local news affiliate who got exclusive word of the visiting national leader.
Mar 5 2019 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — It’s increasingly clear that Canada isn’t particularly happy with Justin Trudeau for allegedly trying to interfere with the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. As Jane Philpott said upon her resignation from cabinet on Monday, “the solemn principles at stake are the independence and integrity of our justice system.”
Mar 2 2019 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — As the Liberal government descends into full-blown crisis, Conservatives could take some satisfaction that this is all happening in part because of a long-ago measure they implemented precisely to catch Liberal scandals. In 2006, one of the first actions of the new government of Stephen Harper was the Director of Public Prosecutions Act, a measure […]
Jan 25 2019 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — Canada is currently embroiled in its worst-ever spat with the People’s Republic of China. On Dec. 1, authorities in Vancouver arrested Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who faces charges in the U.S. of violating American sanctions against Iran.
Jan 22 2019 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — When violent rapist William Shrubsall received a rare indeterminate prison sentence in 2001, a Nova Scotia judge ruled that if he ever regained his freedom, the likely result would be more dead, injured and psychologically scarred women. There was no “realistic prospect of controlling the threat of dangerousness” from his re-entry into society, reads the […]
Oct 11 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — A week after it came out, the newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been received very much like the previous ones: Headlines and columns warning of the dire forecasts of the world’s scientists, environmentalists brandishing it as evidence of the need for radical action and a whole bunch of folks wondering […]
Sep 24 2018 — Tristin Hopper — According to a recent National Post report, Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has dramatically slowed her participation in public events and is reportedly quite unhappy and frustrated with the post. However, Payette is said to be fully committed to the role and in a statement said she was looking forward to sharing accomplishments and new initiatives […]
Aug 21 2018 — Tristin Hopper — Postmedia — As statues of Sir John A. Macdonald are vandalized or removed in the country he founded, the late politician is also being disavowed by the country where he was born. A Monday report in The Times wrote that “all references” to the Scottish-born leader are being excised from official Scottish government websites and documents.
Aug 14 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — As Canada’s relationship with Saudi Arabia remains on the rocks, ex-foreign affairs minister John Baird appeared on Saudi state TV over the weekend to denounce the Trudeau government for its “gratuitous attack” on the Saudi regime. “For Canada to treat a friend and ally this way has been incredibly unhelpful,” Baird told the English-language arm […]
Aug 10 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — A Saudi-owned TV channel claims that University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson is a Canadian prisoner of conscience. Within hours of Saudi Arabia expelling Canada’s ambassador, the country’s broadcasters and pro-government social media accounts ramped into high gear digging up dirt on its newest enemy. A recurring theme of Saudi attacks against Canada is “those […]
Aug 3 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — Hours before registering to become a candidate for Toronto mayor last week, the city’s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat publicly called for the city to break off from Ontario to form Canada’s 11th province. “Secession,” she wrote in a concise tweet on Friday, later wondering, “Why should a city of 2.8 million not have self […]
Jul 3 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — Former prime minister Stephen Harper is taking criticism for appearing at a Paris event sponsored by MEK, an Iranian dissident group that Harper’s own government considered a terrorist organization as recently as 2012. “Thank you for your long battle for a free and democratic Iran,” Harper told a crowd at the Free Iran rally in […]
Jun 4 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — In a recent interview, former prime minister Jean Chretien railed against efforts to replace Canada’s current electoral system with proportional representation, calling it a way for “apparatchiks” to “enter Parliament through the back door.” “For all the professors who want to sit in Parliament but who can’t even get themselves elected dogcatcher, sure, it’s a […]
Apr 24 2018 — Tristin Hopper — National Post — In the latest instance of a surreal sighting of Stephen Harper in civilian life, on Monday the former prime minister was spotted awaiting his order at an Ottawa McDonald’s. “Ran into Stephen Harper at McDonald’s,” wrote Reddit user Pub_Raider in a Monday post accompanying the photo. Pub_Raider added that he did not address the former […]