Globe and Mail

Mar 30 2023 — Nathan VanderKlippe — Globe and Mail — The RCMP is not investigating foreign interference in Vancouver’s election last year, despite a Canadian intelligence report that China’s consul-general sought to shape the outcome of that vote. The report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service describes Tong Xiaoling, then China’s chief representative to the West Coast city, as saying that “they needed to get […]

Mar 29 2023 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts are “weaponizing” social-media users on the far right and far left of the political spectrum in Canada to undermine support for Ukraine, a new study by Canadian and American researchers says. The report, Enemy of My Enemy, studied two years of Twitter activity, including the lead-up to Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022 military […]

Mar 28 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — The most arresting chart in last year’s budget was the one showing projected economic growth rates in the member countries of the OECD over the next forty years. In last place: Canada. At last, we all thought: the Trudeau government had belatedly recognized Canada has a growth problem. Having fixated almost exclusively throughout its first […]

Mar 27 2023 — Steven Chase and Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — A delegation of MPs will visit Taiwan in April to meet with lawmakers on the self-ruled island claimed by China, a gesture of solidarity with a territory under threat from Beijing as Canada itself grapples with foreign interference from the Chinese government. The group includes Liberal MP John McKay, chair of the Commons defence committee, […]

Mar 27 2023 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2023 budget will announce plans to save about $7-billion over five years through cuts to federal travel and reduced outsourcing, with a particular focus on using fewer management consultants, according to a senior government official. The savings represent one side of what will be a challenging political balancing act for the […]

Mar 27 2023 — Marieke Walsh — Globe and Mail — Canada and the United States waited a year to announce a new deal to turn asylum seekers away at unofficial border crossings, such as Roxham Road between Quebec and New York, to avoid a rush of migrants before the new rules could be enforced, the two countries said Sunday. In an interview with The Globe […]

Mar 25 2023 — Shannon Proudfoot — Globe and Mail — The canned political communication that emerges from Canadian-American bilateral visits like the brief and much-anticipated sojourn U.S. President Joe Biden made to Ottawa this week tends to emphasize the historic and monumental. There’s the 8,891-kilometre (or, if you prefer, 5,525-mile) border that dissolves in the warm glow of family and friendship ties, trade, manufacturing and […]

Mar 24 2023 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Trudeau government determined that there was no “actionable evidence” after it received a CSIS transcript of an early 2021 conversation between Liberal MP Han Dong and China’s top diplomat in Toronto, according to a senior government source – saying conclusions could not be drawn that Mr. Dong asked Beijing to keep two Canadians in […]

Mar 23 2023 — Shannon Proudfoot — Globe and Mail — By the time prime minister Stephen Harper left office in 2015, his tendency toward dour control freakery had generated a low hum of fatigue across the land. It could be dressed up in intellectual political garb, but the underlying sentiment was pretty much, “Dude, could you chill a bit?” Increasingly over the last few years, […]

Mar 23 2023 — Navdeep Bains — Globe and Mail — U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Canada this week, his first since becoming President in 2020, is a reaffirmation of the warmth and friendship that has long existed between our two countries. I witnessed that friendship firsthand when I attended the state dinner hosted by president Barack Obama in 2016. After dinner, the conversation turned […]

Mar 21 2023 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — There are all sorts of reasons to question Pierre Poilievre’s proposed Blue Seal program, which would federally certify doctors and nurses who did not study in Canada. Would we accept doctors who performed their residency in another country? How would Ottawa convince provincial licensing bodies to recognize their qualifications? But that’s not what matters. What […]

Mar 20 2023 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — The strong opposition to David Johnston’s appointment as special rapporteur investigating Chinese interference in elections reveals how our times, and our politics, have changed. In a previous column, I suggested that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre should accept Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choice of Mr. Johnston on the grounds that the former governor-general was appointed to […]

Mar 18 2023 — Ian Bailey — Globe and Mail — An anti-abortion group says it will rally Conservative Party members to oust key officials who do not support the reinstatement of a candidate disqualified from an Ontario nomination race. A spokesperson for RightNow detailed the plan Friday in the case of Gerrit Van Dorland, who was disqualified by the party this week from seeking the […]

Mar 17 2023 — Globe and Mail — When I joined the public service many years ago, I swore an oath. Not to party or to person, but to my country, to its democratic institutions and to my fellow Canadians. When I first became aware of the significance of the threat posed by outside interference to our democratic institutions, I worked – as […]

Mar 16 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — David Johnston is a remarkable Canadian, a model of integrity and decency throughout a lifetime of personal accomplishment and public service – as professor of law, as principal of McGill and as one of our finest Governors-General. He is also a wildly inappropriate choice as independent special rapporteur, in the matter of China’s attempts to […]