Nov 29 2022 — Jen Gerson — Globe and Mail — “Albertans have had just about enough of this!” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Jordan Peterson near the start of an hour-and-a-half-long interview posted online two weeks ago. Well, calling it an “interview” is generous: The good doctor fails to challenge Ms. Smith on any of her sometimes misleading characterizations of Alberta’s plight, and he frequently […]
Nov 29 2022 — Globe and Mail — One of Canada’s largest and oldest philanthropic organizations has decided to wind down and distribute its entire endowment – $100-million – to expedite efforts to align the economy with net-zero emission targets. The Ivey Foundation has determined that the need to transform industrial policies to meet climate goals is too acute to keep funding projects […]
Nov 29 2022 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended her government’s changes to the Canada Workers Benefit after criticism from the Parliamentary Budget Officer that the new program design “does not make sense.” Ms. Freeland’s Nov. 3 economic update announced $4-billion over six years to provide automatic advance payments to individuals who had qualified for the income-tested benefit in […]
Nov 29 2022 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The RCMP is investigating broad foreign interference by China in Canadian affairs, says Commissioner Brenda Lucki, but she declined to detail precisely what type of activities are being probed by the federal police force. In a letter sent on Monday to a House of Commons committee studying possible Beijing interference in the 2019 general election, […]
Nov 28 2022 — Robyn Urback — Globe and Mail — A version of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau different from the one that Canadians have come to know testified before the public inquiry into the government’s use of the Emergencies Act last week. The familiar Justin Trudeau is proficient in the art of responding without answering, of repeating canned talking points like a malfunctioning robot with […]
Nov 28 2022 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Ottawa can help repair frosty relations with New Delhi by cracking down on diasporic funding of the Sikh independence movement that is seeking to create a sovereign homeland known as Khalistan, India’s new envoy to Canada says. Sanjay Kumar Verma told The Globe and Mail that India has long been concerned that some segments of […]
Nov 26 2022 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will unveil a long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy on Sunday that promises to bolster the ability of national security agencies to combat foreign influence and disinformation campaigns in the region and in Canadian affairs. Ottawa will provide nearly $230-million over the next five years to expand the capacity of Canadian intelligence and […]
Nov 25 2022 — Shannon Proudfoot — Globe and Mail — In true headliner fashion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is up last at the inquiry examining his government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the protests that roiled the country last winter. By this point, the weeks of testimony from cabinet ministers, police and government officials, bureaucrats, municipal leaders, furious citizens and aggrieved convoy leaders […]
Nov 24 2022 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — I think Doug Ford has done us all a favour. I think we owe him a debt of gratitude. Canadian democracy has been in such an advanced state of decline for so long that it no longer seems as if anyone even notices. Parliament barely meets any more. The government passes half its agenda in […]
Nov 23 2022 — Lawrence Martin — Globe and Mail — The inquiry into whether Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was justifiable has a rather peculiar look. Inquiries normally investigate something that went wrong. Not this one. This one is probing an action that worked, that went off with few hitches, that was met, for the most part, with public acceptance. The issue of […]
Nov 23 2022 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Ottawa has yet to sell off any Russian assets seized as a result of sanctions in response to Moscow’s assault on Ukraine, seven months after announcing its intention to take such action. In April, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said it would use a 2022 budget implementation act to give Canada the power to forfeit, […]
Nov 22 2022 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Members of Parliament were warned Monday that a Senate bill that would require companies and government bodies to report publicly on forced labour in their supply chains would do little to tackle the problem. And the National Council of Canadian Muslims urged MPs to amend the legislation, Bill S-211, so that it bars all imports […]
Nov 22 2022 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — Pierre Poilievre is conducting politics in a way never seen before in this country, using remarkably effective videos to talk to people on their smartphones about the things that worry them. He has figured out and matched the public mood at a time when that mood is dark. Critics may scoff, but any politician opposing […]
Nov 21 2022 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A U.S. senator who attended the weekend’s Halifax security summit believes NATO should consider the resource commitment each country makes to the military alliance in selecting its next secretary general, amid media reports that Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is one of the contenders. By at least one measure, however, Canada falls short of the […]
Nov 17 2022 — Ian Bailey — Globe and Mail — The prime minister’s official residence, 24 Sussex Drive, is to be cleared out and closed because of the declining state of the decades-old property, the commission that manages official residences in the Ottawa region says. Until Justin Trudeau became prime minister in 2015, the property had been the residence of prime ministers since 1951. However, […]