Oct 30 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The prime minister rebuffed NDP accusations in question period Monday that he’s manipulating voters by failing to call a byelection in a riding where federal leader Jagmeet Singh is a candidate. Singh has been federal leader of the NDP for more than a year and does not have a seat in Parliament. He declared himself […]
Oct 27 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — The leader of the federal Marijuana Party, who for decades advocated for the legalization of cannabis, has now found himself in a peculiar position of being a critic against it. It’s a weird twist of fate Blair Longley is coming to terms with now that the Liberal government has come through on its election promise […]
Oct 23 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has dropped some breadcrumbs for what his eventual climate plan will look like, saying he believes Canada can reduce global emissions rather than domestic — and without a carbon tax. Scheer took shots at the Liberal government’s plan to impose a carbon price on recalcitrant provinces during an interview with CBC […]
Sep 26 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Graphic details about the murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford dominated question period Wednesday, as Conservatives expressed outrage over news that one of her killers was moved from a maximum-security prison to an aboriginal healing lodge. Terri-Lynne McClintic is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Stafford in 2009. Her ex-boyfriend, Michael Rafferty, is […]
Sep 19 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The federal government spent the summer making $43 billion worth of funding announcements — aimed primarily at Liberal ridings in Eastern Canada. The size of funding announcements ranged from relatively minor — $4,000 for renovations to a Quebec town’s recreation centre, for example — to major, such as the unveiling of Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, […]
Aug 15 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — For some reason Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s name found a place in former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman’s controversial new book Unhinged. Trudeau’s name appears in a section where Manigault Newman describes her close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump during the administration’s first 100 days. “I was always standing nearby or seated behind […]
Aug 9 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Ontario Premier Doug Ford sidestepped a question about his government’s decision to cancel a basic income pilot project by accusing an NDP MPP of making a threat to hurl an explosive in Queen’s Park on Thursday. NDP MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell had asked the premier in question period when participants of the now-cancelled project were informed […]
Jul 4 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Conservative MP Michelle Rempel is going after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s feminist credentials following his recent response to an 18-year-old groping allegation that he can’t remember such an incident. “Well I’m sure Harvey Weinstein said that he couldn’t recall things either,” Rempel told HuffPost Canada in an interview Wednesday, referencing the disgraced Hollywood film mogul […]
May 17 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Justin Trudeau said he’s not going to engage with Jason Kenney after the former Conservative MP mocked the prime minister this week for having the “political depth of a finger bowl.” Speaking to reporters in New York City, Trudeau was asked if there’s anything he’d like to say to Alberta’s United Conservative Party leader. After […]
May 1 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The federal Conservative and NDP leaders shared similar attacks at an Assembly of First Nations’ chiefs’ meeting Tuesday, both sowing a pre-election message that the Liberal government is all talk and no action on Indigenous issues. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was upfront. “Basically, I’m here to tell you that Canada’s Conservatives are listening,” he said. […]
Apr 20 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The glass doors of the Halifax Convention Centre opened to some 2,850 registered Liberal delegates Thursday, as the party kicked off its biannual policy convention. More than 20 per cent of the delegates are under the age of 25. Fifty-five per cent have not attended a convention in the last decade. The party’s leadership says […]
Apr 14 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The Indian High Commission says a story being used by Conservatives to attack the federal government over the Jaspal Atwal affair is false. International media reports claimed a bilateral meeting between India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was scrapped as a result of waning relations after the prime minister’s […]
Mar 27 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Despite what the calendar says, it’s seemingly Groundhog Day in the House of Commons after the government and Opposition repeated the same question and answer about the Jaspal Atwal affair in question period Monday. Conservatives kept poking the government to answer if the prime minister had any knowledge that his national security advisor, Daniel Jean, […]
Mar 3 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The finance minister says he had no idea a tax credit the government renamed in its budget this week essentially erased a piece of Jim Flaherty’s legacy. In an interview with HuffPost Canada, Bill Morneau said the decision to rename the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) to the Canada Workers Benefit (CWB) was “absolutely not” […]
Feb 15 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — No one should have to go through this. It was a few days after Christmas when Maria* went into hiding with her three-year-old son. Their escape from Halifax had been planned for months. Maria’s mother knew about the domestic abuse, but lived abroad. A few friends found out when marks on her body spurred questions. […]