Sep 28 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Sovereignty, as we used to say about the Parti Québécois, is what you can get away with. In the run-up to the 1995 referendum the Péquistes issued all sorts of lunatic explanations of how the province would go about seceding, in which a stupefied rest of Canada would respond to Quebec’s formal and final raising […]
Sep 25 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Jews across Canada were preparing for the holiest day on the religious calendar on Sunday, as word was spreading about a major snafu in Ottawa two days earlier. Ahead of a 24-hour fast to atone for sins committed in the previous year and ask to be inscribed into the Book of Life for the year […]
Sep 23 2023 — Andrew Perez — Globe and Mail — In June, violent riots overtook more than a dozen French cities after a police officer shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a French teen of Algerian and Moroccan descent who had driven through a red light while escaping police. The reaction in Canada was as predictable as it was self-assured. Many commentators said the destructive events […]
Sep 23 2023 — Kelly Cryderman — Globe and Mail — Danielle Smith has always been on the side of Alberta going it alone with a provincial pension. What we didn’t know until this week is what a stunningly big chunk of the pie the Premier would seek in that separation from the Canada Pension Plan. The Alberta claim is so huge – Ms. Smith’s United […]
Sep 22 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — The tendency of our current politics to view absolutely everything through the lens of partisanship has rarely been on better display than in the aftermath of the Prime Minister’s dramatic announcement in Parliament Monday: that Canadian intelligence officials were pursuing “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of a Canadian Sikh leader, Hardeep Singh […]
Sep 20 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — For the Indian government to kill an Indian citizen, without trial, in India would be a grievous wrong. To kill one of its citizens on foreign soil would be worse still: not just extra-judicial but extra-territorial. But to assassinate a Canadian citizen, in Canada, would take matters to a whole new level. It is the […]
Sep 19 2023 — Jen Gerson — Globe and Mail — It was after a rainstorm in May, 2000, that water contaminated by E. coli washed into the Ontario town of Walkerton’s water supply. The town’s water treatment centre proved inadequate to the task of ridding it of the deadly bacteria. Within days, thousands would become infected, seven would die and countless others would suffer lifetime […]
Sep 18 2023 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canadian national-security authorities have what they consider credible intelligence that India was behind the mid-June fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia designated a terrorist by New Delhi and part of a separatist movement seeking an autonomous state for adherents of Sikhism. The sources would not provide details on […]
Sep 18 2023 — Steven Chase and Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — A new report by human-rights lawyers, released ahead of the public inquiry on foreign interference, says Canada must be prepared to take forceful action to protect those who are often the targets of these attacks: immigrants and refugees. It says Canada is breaking its obligations under international law to protect those who start a new […]
Sep 18 2023 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Changes to lobbying rules could spell an end to 50 years of free trips to Israel for Canadian MPs and senators. The Ottawa-based Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), which funds the trips, says it is the group hardest hit by revisions to a code governing those who try to influence public officials.
Sep 16 2023 — Steven Chase and Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Canada says it is investigating how to safeguard the “sensitive skills and information” that members of the military take with them when they retire after reports of former Western fighter pilots selling their knowledge to China prompted Australia to announce a crackdown on unauthorized training of foreign defence forces. Australia announced Thursday penalties of up […]
Sep 16 2023 — Shannon Proudfoot — Globe and Mail — At this point, “Gotta check with Katie,” is basically a Parliament Hill magical incantation. She is the quiet voice that carries, the last person in the room, a first-name-only Ottawa main character. Some prime ministers have employed their chiefs of staff as mercenaries for specific moments and replaced them when the situation demanded something different. […]
Sep 15 2023 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — By the time you read this the federal government will have unveiled its latest suite of policies designed to address the crisis in the Canadian housing market, or at least the crisis in Liberal polling. Whether these are likely to be any more effective than the policies it has introduced to date we shall see. […]
Sep 15 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — School libraries have finite resources, including space, and will never be able to include every book that was ever published – nor every book that was once offered by that individual library. Collections are weeded not just to make space though – updates are needed when books are beyond repair, but also for textual accuracy […]
Sep 14 2023 — Globe and Mail — Tony Blair and British Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer are among a group of global figures set to attend a summit with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal this weekend, in what is being seen as a show of strength of the centre left. Among the issues to be discussed at the 2023 Global Progress […]