Apr 21 2018 — CBC — Re-election campaigns — like the one the Trudeau Liberals will embark on next year — hang on a government’s ability to convince voters that it still represents positive change, Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said Friday. But since electoral success seems more and more these days to depend on offering voters something other […]
Apr 21 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Friday he has experienced racial profiling first-hand in Canada, and he’s calling on his fellow Liberals to fight racism. Speaking to delegates at the party’s convention in Halifax, Hussen said that, when he was younger, police cars would screech to a halt in front of him when he was out […]
Apr 21 2018 — Evan Dyer — CBC — The Official Opposition barely mentioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign travel this week. Instead, Conservatives mostly used question period to rehash the PM’s excursion to India two months ago, and the unforced errors that plagued it. So the Trudeau government succeeded at least in not giving its enemies any fresh ammunition — which surely came […]
Apr 20 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she’s open to looking at decriminalizing small quantities of drugs and easing Canada’s prostitution laws — both progressive policies that are popular with youth delegates at the Liberal Party convention underway in Halifax. Wilson-Raybould said she has learned through discussions with stakeholders and sex workers that legalizing prostitution is a […]
Apr 20 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — As the Liberal government deals with deep divisions over a western pipeline expansion, grassroots party members are pushing for a long-term vision that relies less on getting oil to market and more on Canada’s energy independence. Delegates at the Liberal convention in Halifax, the unofficial kick-off for the 2019 election campaign, begin to debate 30 […]
Apr 20 2018 — CBC — Premier Scott Moe says he saw plans in 2017 for an irrigation project by former Kindersley MLA Bill Boyd for which Boyd later pleaded guilty to breaking environmental laws. On Tuesday, Boyd was fined a total of $35,000 in relation to two charges laid in 2017. One involved illegally cultivating about six acres of protected […]
Apr 20 2018 — CBC — A Hamilton-area MPP questioned a staffer’s commitment to his job after he took parental leave to care for his baby, in a voicemail obtained by CBC News. In that same call the Ontario NDP’s Paul Miller also suggests the union representing party employees does “more harm than good.” Miller, who represents Hamilton East–Stoney Creek, complained […]
Apr 20 2018 — Simon Houpt — CBC — Male hosts who work for the CBC/Radio Canada make an average of almost 9.5 per cent more than their female counterparts, despite the public broadcaster using what it calls “gender-neutral criteria in order to recruit and retain highly sought-after employees.” The disparity in salaries is reflected across most employment categories listed in a recent CBC […]
Apr 20 2018 — Murray Brewster — CBC — The Canadian helicopters going to Mali will be outfitted as they were in Afghanistan, and will fly their missions the way they did there, senior military commanders said Thursday. The country’s military operations command, Lt.-Gen. Steve Bowes, and the director of the strategic joint staff at National Defence headquarters, Maj.-Gen Al Meinzinger, testified before the […]
Apr 20 2018 — Eric Grenier — CBC — Liberals gathering in Halifax this weekend to plot strategy for the 2019 federal election have an unusual question to ask themselves. Are they “Tunnel People” or not? It won’t be the first time that Canadian politicians have grappled with this question — one that harkens back to the late 19th century when one province demanded […]
Apr 19 2018 — David Cochrane — CBC — The federal government says other energy companies might be willing to champion the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion if Kinder Morgan decides to walk away from the project, according to two senior officials directly involved in the pipeline file.
Apr 19 2018 — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short today of echoing British Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for Commonwealth members to ban single-use plastics — but pointed to a planned discussion at the next G7 summit, being hosted by Canada later this year. May announced earlier Thursday that her government is banning plastic straws, cotton swabs and […]
Apr 19 2018 — CBC — Beijing’s threat was vague but ominous — a warning from the Maritime Authority to stay out of a parcel of ocean in the Taiwan Strait. “Live-fire drills to check Taiwan independence,” declared the Global Times, a tabloid that often reflects China’s most hawkish leadership voices. Chinese commentators predicted a show of force involving the aircraft […]
Apr 19 2018 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — For 2 years, Facebook knew personal info of potentially thousands of Canadians was in hands of a third party. Senior members of the Facebook leadership team faced a rough ride from MPs at a Commons committee on Thursday for their failure to inform more than 600,000 Canadians that their privacy might have been compromised. For […]
Apr 19 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Thousands of Liberals are gathering in Halifax today for a party policy convention meant to plot a course to next year’s federal election. More than 25 per cent of the expected 3,000 attendees will be 25 or younger — members of a key demographic the party must court as it works to fire up the […]