Aug 15 2018 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — The number of border crossers spiked by nearly 23 per cent between June and July, following a brief decrease in the number of asylum seekers illegally crossing into Canada between official border posts earlier this year. The RCMP intercepted 1,634 asylum claimants along the Canada-U.S. land border in July – mostly in Quebec – according […]
Aug 15 2018 — Gloria Galloway — Globe and Mail — The federal government is consulting with Indigenous groups before declaring a national statutory holiday to mark the painful legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools. The main sticking point has been choosing a date for the annual event. “The overall picture is that it is important to have that day set aside so Canadians continually get […]
Aug 15 2018 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — The City of Montreal is set to call for a nationwide ban on handguns and assault weapons, joining Toronto in pressing the Trudeau government to beef up its proposed firearms legislation. Montreal City Council is to debate a motion that will urge the federal government to prohibit weapons that are currently legal, albeit tightly regulated, […]
Aug 13 2018 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — The painful confrontation with Saudi Arabia is yet another example of the continuity-of-error that defines much of this Liberal government’s approach to Canada in the world. “It’s a sad tale of unfulfilled promises and possibilities left unexplored and amateurish stumbling about,” says Daryl Copeland, a foreign policy analyst who spent three decades as a diplomat […]
Aug 13 2018 — Laura Payton — Globe and Mail — She was known among her colleagues as the Dean of the Senate, a true original and, in the words of fellow senator Peter Harder, never one to shy away from controversy – “even to the point of irritation.” Senator Anne Cools – armed with stacks of books and a seemingly endless ability to pontificate about, […]
Aug 13 2018 — Globe and Mail — The Canadian government prevented nine Chinese journalists working for Beijing’s state-run Xinhua News Agency from entering Canada to cover the June Group of Seven summit in Quebec, the media outlet says. Canada denied requests by these journalists for the visas necessary to travel to the province and cover the G7, Xinhua says. The nine Xinhua […]
Aug 13 2018 — Shawn McCarthy — Globe and Mail — The federal government has a solid base of support, though with clear pockets of opposition, as it moves to impose a carbon pricing plan in provinces that refuse to adopt their own system, a new poll indicates. At the same time, Canadians appear to have misgivings about a move by governments in Saskatchewan and Ontario […]
Aug 8 2018 — Gloria Galloway — Globe and Mail — Jagmeet Singh, who was elected more than 10 months ago to head the federal New Democrats, is expected to declare himself to be his party’s candidate in a Vancouver-area riding that will soon be vacated by a member of his NDP caucus. Running in a by-election in Burnaby South, which the NDP won by fewer […]
Aug 8 2018 — Margaret Wente — Globe and Mail — Samar Badawi, 37, is an extraordinary woman with the courage of a lion. She fights for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most repressive regime in the world. She took her own father to court for refusing to allow her to marry the man she chose. He took her to court for disobedience – […]
Aug 8 2018 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The U.S. government has declined to come to Canada’s defence in the growing diplomatic crisis over its criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human-rights’ record. On Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman, speaking at a media briefing in Washington, would not publicly condemn Riyadh’s arrest of civil-rights activists in the Mideast kingdom, as the Canadian government did […]
Aug 6 2018 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Saudi Arabian government plans to withdraw all Saudi students studying at Canadian universities, colleges and other schools in retaliation for Canada criticizing the country’s human-rights record. A Saudi government source, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said there are more than 15,000 Saudis here on government-funded scholarships, grants or in trainee […]
Aug 5 2018 — Campbell Clark — Globe and Mail — The committee on un-Canadian activities has convened somewhere in a corner of the PMO’s communications office, and they’ve found certain Conservatives to be suspiciously disloyal. Not just disloyal to them, but to the nation, and for the unforgivable offence of meeting Americans without a minder. This is the Liberals preparing to fire at any opponent […]
Aug 5 2018 — Laura Stone — Globe and Mail — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is firing back at the Liberals for linking a Tory MP’s recent trip to Washington with ongoing trade negotiations, accusing the government of using a “cynical political strategy” to distract from stalled trade talks with the United States. In a strongly-worded statement released on Saturday, Mr. Scheer said Transport Minister Marc […]
Aug 4 2018 — Ian Bailey — Globe and Mail — Earlier this year, British Columbia’s NDP government made a little-noticed change to the Workers Compensation Act that expanded mental-health services for first responders. In particular, these workers no longer need to point to a specific incident to submit a claim for a mental-health condition related to their work. “What’s changed is you no longer have […]
Aug 3 2018 — Laura Stone — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government is crying foul over a Conservative MP’s decision to decline an offer to bring Canadian embassy officials to recent meetings in Washington, but the Tory backbencher says it wasn’t required. Transport Minister Marc Garneau, who heads the Canada-U.S. cabinet committee, criticized Conservative MP Kelly McCauley for attending meetings this week in the […]