Oct 18 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The federal government is speaking out after the United Nations Human Rights Council, including such countries as Russia, China and Venezuela, shut down the only independent and international probe into Yemen’s long and deadly civil war. A UN-appointed panel of experts on Yemen has since 2017 documented incidents of indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling, as well […]
Oct 18 2021 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government’s move to limit House of Commons sitting days this year and delay the return of Parliament until late November is part of an effort to avoid scrutiny, opposition MPs say, amid a needed debate over pandemic economic supports. The Prime Minister’s Office has said that the House won’t resume sitting until Nov. […]
Oct 15 2021 — Marieke Walsh — Globe and Mail — The Canadian Forces’ chief of military personnel is being investigated for sexual misconduct by military police and went on leave effective immediately on Friday – months after the probe was launched. Lieutenant-General Steven Whelan was promoted to his current rank and placed in charge of military personnel and rooting out bad behaviour in the Forces […]
Oct 14 2021 — Globe and Mail — It all sounded so wonderful, back in July: freedom from the straitjacket of COVID-19 restrictions. At least that’s how Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his Saskatchewan counterpart Scott Moe were selling it. On July 1, Mr. Kenney was the first to quash the need for masks, social distancing and public-gathering constraints, declaring Alberta “open for […]
Oct 12 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Canadian Senate’s biggest bloc is calling Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran before a closed-door hearing next Monday to decide whether to kick her out of the Independent Senators Group. This is the first expulsion hearing for the Independent Senators, the largest Parliamentary group in Canada’s Red Chamber, since it was recognized by the Senate in […]
Oct 12 2021 — Kristy Kirkup — Globe and Mail — Maxime Bernier and Justin Trudeau were the two most common answers in a poll that asked respondents which of Canada’s federal party leaders they would like to see resign as a result of the outcome of this year’s election. Thirty-seven per cent of respondents told Nanos Research that Mr. Bernier, the leader of the far-right […]
Oct 11 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — More than 75 per cent of Canadians think the federal government should ban Huawei Technologies from this country’s 5G telecommunications networks in a new Nanos Research poll that finds hardening attitudes toward the Chinese state and business relations with Beijing. The survey by Nanos for The Globe and Mail was conducted the week after the […]
Oct 11 2021 — Globe and Mail — The Soviet Union’s secret police, the infamous KGB, praised her savvy and erudition, even as she frustrated their attempts to spy on her in Cold War Ukraine. They tagged her with the code name Frida. But today we know Chrystia Freeland as Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Ms. Freeland’s ties to Ukraine […]
Oct 11 2021 — Campbell Clark — Globe and Mail — So far, there are two ministers named to Justin Trudeau’s postelection cabinet: the PM himself, and Chrystia Freeland. The rest are TBD. Mr. Trudeau took the unusual step of telling the country on Sept. 28 that Ms. Freeland will stay as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, though the rest of the cabinet has to […]
Oct 8 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada is not acting fast enough to help at-risk Afghans leave their country, which has now been under Taliban control for close to two months, retired major-general Denis Thompson warns. He said non-governmental organizations working with the Veterans Transition Network (VTN), a Canadian charity that is currently helping Afghans resettle in Canada, have not been […]
Oct 7 2021 — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met behind closed doors with his Liberal caucus on Thursday, in what was called an “informal” send-off for defeated MPs, leaving the post-election debrief on the party’s failed bid for a majority government to another day. Most Members of Parliament attended the hybrid event remotely, but about two dozen MPs, including […]
Oct 7 2021 — Kristy Kirkup — Globe and Mail — The NDP is prepared to withhold its votes in Parliament and wants the Liberal government to demonstrate it is interested in co-operation, Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday. Mr. Singh, whose party won 25 seats in the Sept. 20 election, met with his caucus on Wednesday and held a news conference on Thursday to lay out […]
Oct 7 2021 — Lawrence Martin — Globe and Mail — Justin Trudeau has become a punching bag. Despite his third straight election win, he’s seriously wounded, critics maintain, so much so that he’ll limp off to the exit gates in a couple of years. Don’t bank on it. As those with a sense of history know, the loathing of Mr. Trudeau is nothing out of […]
Oct 7 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — While Conservatives at large ponder whether to ditch Erin O’Toole as leader or keep him, the party’s parliamentary caucus has just made a decision of much greater import: it has given itself the power to dismiss the leader – and thus transformed the office itself. Meeting for the first time since the election, the Conservatives […]
Oct 7 2021 — Globe and Mail — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is discussing options to extend support for businesses beyond the Oct. 23 expiration date for some emergency wage and rent subsidies. The comment has raised expectations that the Liberals may support more business sectors than the party promised in the recent election campaign. The re-elected Liberal minority government […]