May 18 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada warned against the United States shutting down Enbridge Line 5, a crucial petroleum supply for Ontario and Quebec, on the eve of talks regarding the new NAFTA deal. International Trade Minister Mary Ng spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai in a virtual meeting Monday before this week’s trilateral Free Trade Commission meeting about […]
May 17 2021 — Robert Fife and Kristy Kirkup — Globe and Mail — National Defence waited nearly two months to remove Major-General Dany Fortin from his military duties and as head of Canada’s vaccination rollout because it was scrambling to deal with a series of allegations of sexual misconduct involving at least seven high-ranking officers, sources say. The federal government replaced Maj.-Gen. Fortin on Monday, naming Brigadier-General Krista […]
May 17 2021 — Ian Bailey — Globe and Mail — Public opinion research for Natural Resources Canada shows many Canadians are giving the federal government poor grades on key goals in the fight against climate change. The executive summary of research report Natural Resource Issues in a Low-Carbon Economy says more Canadians rate the federal government’s performance as poor, as opposed to good, on implementing […]
May 15 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — How did it come to this? Leave aside, for the moment, the implications – for free speech, for Canada’s reputation, for net neutrality – of Bill C-10, the federal government’s misbegotten effort to catch the internet in the same regulatory web as that which has long enveloped the conventional broadcasting industry. Leave aside, too, the […]
May 13 2021 — Globe and Mail — International regulations presided over by the World Health Organization and agreed to by countries such as Canada are biased toward keeping borders open and travel flowing, even in a pandemic, and must be overhauled, an expert panel said. Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand who is leading an independent panel of doctors […]
May 12 2021 — Lawrence Martin — Globe and Mail — Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer won’t back off. Rather than show flexibility toward Canada in the confrontation over the vital Line 5 pipeline, she’s treating the good neighbour as badly as Donald Trump did, prompting a showdown. She’s ordered the shutdown of the Enbridge Inc. line that passes through her state and supplies almost half the […]
May 12 2021 — Globe and Mail — Enbridge Inc. will continue to operate the Line 5 pipeline in defiance of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s May 12 deadline to shut it down, but the state’s attorney general says it remains intent on obtaining a court order that would enforce her notice to cease operations. The petroleum pipeline is a vital energy source for […]
May 12 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — On Mar. 30, 2020, Dwight Ball – then the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a desperate plea for help. “To put it bluntly,” he wrote, “our recent attempts to finalize our borrowing program … have been unsuccessful.” In plain English, no one would buy its bonds. Newfoundland […]
May 12 2021 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada’s spy agency urged the removal of security clearances for two scientists who were later dismissed from the country’s top infectious-disease laboratory because of national-security concerns relating to their work with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to two sources. In January of this year, Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies […]
May 12 2021 — Globe and Mail — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the federal wage subsidy Tuesday as opposition MPs expressed concern that the massive $110.6-billion emergency pandemic program has been used by large firms to pad their bottom lines. Conservative and NDP MPs questioned the minister about a Globe and Mail investigation, which found that hundreds of publicly traded companies, or […]
May 11 2021 — Globe and Mail — The Canadian government is formally wading into a legal battle over the future of Enbridge Line 5 pipeline, a major cross-border energy conduit for Ontario and Quebec, warning a U.S. court that Michigan’s effort to shut this down unilaterally would not only disrupt Canada’s energy security but damage bilateral relations. “The proposed shutdown would cause […]
May 11 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A parliamentary committee is threatening to escalate a months-long dispute with the Public Health Agency of Canada after the organization’s president repeatedly refused to disclose why two scientists were fired from Canada’s highest-security infectious-disease lab earlier this year Iain Stewart, the head of PHAC, which has taken a leading role in the fight against COVID-19, […]
May 10 2021 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — The size of the federal deficit is a concern to three in four Canadians, according to a new Nanos poll, but the Liberal Party scores higher than other parties when it comes to managing the government’s finances. The survey for The Globe and Mail asked Canadians for their views on the April 19 budget, which […]
May 9 2021 — Globe and Mail — By any financial measure, TFI International Inc. has had a great pandemic. Revenue at the Montreal-based trucking conglomerate, excluding fuel surcharges, rose in 2020. Net income jumped by double digits, in part because TFI moved quickly to cut its work force expenses. The company made a string of 13 acquisitions during the year. And after […]
May 8 2021 — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government is proposing new amendments to Bill C-10, which outlines changes to the Broadcasting Act, aimed at requiring YouTube and other streaming platforms to recommend Canadian content and divert a share of Canadian revenues toward cultural production funds. The Liberals say the amendments make it clear that the legislative changes related to social […]