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Jun 7 2023 — Angus Reid — Manitoba premier’s approval remains at one-quarter for sixth consecutive quarter. As wildfires ravage the country from coast to coast, the crises in communities are manifold. Emergency responses must be marshalled. Firefighting efforts need to be coordinated. Residents forced from their homes need shelter. Most of these responsibilities rest on the shoulders of provincial governments where […]

Jun 7 2023 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — While smoke filled the air outside, the debate in the House was focused on metaphorical fires. The first crisis of Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister was the wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alta. in May 2016. At the time, he felt it necessary to attach caveats when answering a question about whether climate change had […]

Jun 7 2023 — Peter Zimonjic — CBC — As interest rates rose again Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made good on a promise to tie up the House of Commons, speaking for hours in a bid to prevent the government from passing a budget he said will drive Canada into “a full scale financial crisis.” “This is on the verge of becoming a […]

Jun 7 2023 — Kady O'Malley — iPolitics — For a few hours, it had all the makings of a classic mid-June cross-aisle cliffhanger — a high-stakes standoff over the legislative package containing many of the big-ticket measures laid out in the latest budget. Accompanied by a full contingent of his front bench critics, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre hit the House of Commons Foyer […]

Jun 7 2023 — CTV News — The Bank of Canada raised its overnight rate by 25 basis points to 4.75 per cent on Wednesday, its first increase since pausing hikes in January. The central bank’s key interest rate has not been this high since April 2001.

Jun 7 2023 — Sun Media — This is all you need to know about Ottawa. This is all you need to know about what’s wrong with Ottawa. It is so bad, in the cocoon of the capital, acting students seeing the surreal spectacle would consider it a clumsy example of theatre of the absurd led by, of all people, a former […]

Jun 7 2023 — The Canadian Press — One of the architects of the law that governs Canada’s prison system says it’s understandable people want revenge on killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo, but that’s not what the prison system is designed for. Mary Campbell also says it is regrettable the Correctional Service of Canada has not been more transparent in how it […]

Jun 6 2023 — CTV News — Federal officials are characterizing this year’s wildfire season across the country as “unprecedented,” and a “new normal” driven by, among other things, climate change. “People would say, well, we’ve always had forest fires; what’s new?” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told Power Play host Vassy Kapelos. “Well this year the area that’s being burned is ten […]

Jun 6 2023 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — While David Johnston’s first report into foreign interference disputed claims made about Independent MP Han Dong, the special rapporteur said Tuesday he never spoke to the Toronto-area MP in the course of his investigation. “We did not reach out to him,” the former governor general told CBC’s Power & Politics Tuesday after appearing before a […]

Jun 7 2023 — Stewart Bell — Global News — Early on Aug. 21, 2013, Syrian government forces fired rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin into the rebel-held Ghouta district of Damascus. As the chemical clouds spread, residents began to froth at the mouth. Fluid oozed from their eyes and noses as they convulsed and suffocated. The Ghouta gas attack killed up to 1,400 […]

May 10 2023 — Fred DeLorey — Substack — Is Poilievre’s exposed left flank under attack? As the Conservative Party navigates the challenges posed by Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada (PPC) on their right flank, a new political party could be set to enter the fray: Rick Peterson’s Centre Ice Canadians. This development, though seemingly minor at first glance, warrants attention, as history […]

May 17 2023 — Ron Graham — Literary Review of Canada — The scene: Ottawa, August 17, 2020. The actors: Bill Morneau, Canada’s minister of finance, and Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, alone at last, mano-a-mano. The plot: Morneau has come to tender his resignation. And we, the readers, are invited to be in the room where it happened. Except nothing happens. Or, rather, what happens is […]

May 13 2023 — CTV News — The federal opposition Conservatives have widened their lead over other parties when it comes to ballot support and leadership, with the minority Liberals now threatened in areas that were strongholds for them in the previous election, according to the latest Nanos Research tracking.

Jun 3 2023 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau’s government has been on the defensive in the House of Commons for months. By now, fewer than one in three Canadians approves its handling of the China electoral interference file, a topic that has monopolized the federal political conversation throughout the first half of the year. To listen to the furor in the […]

May 26 2023 — CBC — After trailing in the polls for years, the United Conservative Party appears poised to win a majority next Monday, according to a new CBC News poll. “If you asked me four months ago how I thought this election was going to turn out, I’d say the NDP was going cruise to victory,” said Calgary-based pollster […]

May 30 2023 — CTV News — Danielle Smith is still the premier of Alberta, surviving a vigorous campaign and a tight vote Monday against NDP challenger Rachel Notley. Unofficial results at midnight showed Smith’s United Conservative Party elected or leading in about 50 ridings to hold majority control of the province’s 87-seat legislature. “To paraphrase our dear friend Ralph Klein: Welcome […]

May 30 2023 — Calgary Herald — The UCP held onto power but Danielle Smith’s pre-election cabinet took some big losses along the way Monday night. The most decisive verdict against the UCP was just about everyone connected to health care fell from the ranks.

Jun 3 2023 — Toronto Star — Longtime B.C. politician Dave Hayer knew his campaign people. And his people included Chinese Canadians. They volunteered for him. They voted for him. And then in his 2021 campaign to become a federal Conservative MP, they vanished. The former MLA was running to represent the riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, drawing on the same base of […]

May 9 2023 — David Coletto — Abacus Data — We conducted a national survey at the beginning of the month to explore public perceptions of a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre. We asked respondents whether they thought such a government would or wouldn’t undertake a list of actions and whether a Conservative government should or shouldn’t do the same things. The intention was […]

Jun 7 2023 — Angus Reid — Manitoba premier’s approval remains at one-quarter for sixth consecutive quarter. As wildfires ravage the country from coast to coast, the crises in communities are manifold. Emergency responses must be marshalled. Firefighting efforts need to be coordinated. Residents forced from their homes need shelter. Most of these responsibilities rest on the shoulders of provincial governments where […]

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Apr 19 2020 — CBC — RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest killing sprees in Canadian history. Police said Sunday night the suspected shooter, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, […]

Nov 19 2019 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet is underway and the Liberal front bench is being expanded to include seven rookie ministers, two of whom were elected for the first time in 2019, and more than a dozen current ministers who are taking on new portfolios. Trudeau has reshaped the lineup of […]

Oct 20 2015 — The Canadian Press — On his final campaign flight from Abbotsford, B.C. to Calgary, Stephen Harper sat with his closest friends and began putting together the plan for his exit from the Conservative Party leadership. That plan will unfold this morning, as Conservative politicians and the party’s rank-and-file look to a future leadership race — only the merged party’s […]

Jun 9 2018 — Washington Examiner — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to hold back laughter Friday at the G7 summit when he presented President Trump with a framed photo of a hotel and brothel that Trump’s grandfather once operated in British Columbia.

Oct 31 2018 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — What is clear, comes in a glass bottle and gets served up in red plastic cups? That is the question after a meeting to elect a new MP as chair of the Canadian NATO parliamentary association descended into chaos Tuesday night with what appear to be Conservative staffers and at least one Conservative MP, Garnett […]

Jul 21 2015 — Kady O'Malley — Ottawa Citizen — UPDATE: Thanks to the magic of autoreply, we can now confirm that nine — 9! — of the missing PMO staffers are indeed on leave for unstated reasons, with no ETA for return — except, that is, for speechwriter Nigel Hannaford, who seems confident he’ll be back on October 20. Meanwhile welcome back (?) to […]

Mar 10 2018 — Lucas Powers — CBC — Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford was named the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader after a turbulent party convention, but runner-up Christine Elliott says she’s won’t concede and that there were “serious irregularities” in the race.

Oct 9 2015 — Greg Lyle — Hill Times — A daring strategy, a strong performance by their leader and some of the best political advertising in recent history have placed the Liberal Party at victory’s doorstep with just 10 days to go. While it is true that a week is a long time in politics, in the normal course of events, today’s numbers would […]

Jan 19 2016 — CBC — Senator Patrick Brazeau is recovering in hospital following surgery after he was found seriously injured in his home last night, according to officials at a hospital in Gatineau, Que. Police and paramedics were called to Brazeau’s home in Mayo, Que., northeast of Ottawa, just after 10 p.m. ET on Monday, sources told CBC News. He […]