Globe and Mail

Oct 21 2017 — Michelle Zilio — Globe and Mail — Nearly 70 per cent of asylum claimants who entered Canada through unauthorized crossings and had their cases reviewed between March and September were granted refugee status, according to newly released government data, which are based on the small fraction of cases that have been processed. More than 15,100 people have crossed into Canada at unofficial […]

Oct 21 2017 — Ingrid Peritz — Globe and Mail — Quebec’s new law forcing women to unveil before getting public services is meeting with confusion, street protests and resistance from civic leaders, exposing the divisive impact of legislating on matters of faith and human rights in Canada. Bill 62 became law on Wednesday, but the largest cities and transit authorities say they will not yet […]

Oct 20 2017 — Globe and Mail — Globe and Mail — Remember when the federal government was run by a Machiavellian prime minister and his closest acolytes, who together pulled the levers of power from inside his office at the expense of Parliament? Who mercilessly enforced discipline on his cabinet, and used strict image and message control to present the leader as a man working hard […]

Oct 20 2017 — Laura Stone — Globe and Mail — Staff for a recently appointed independent senator requested a new carpet and then had it torn out and replaced for a cost of nearly $7,000 because it was the wrong colour and looked “weird.” Ontario Senator Lucie Moncion, who was named to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in November of 2016, said the […]

Oct 20 2017 — Campbell Clark — Globe and Mail — Justin Trudeau was once one of the loudest voices opposing the government wanting to force veiled Muslim women to uncover their faces. Now that he has a tribune as Prime Minister, his response to Quebec’s Bill 62 has been muted. The fear of being cast in Quebec as an interfering federal leader has softened his […]

Oct 20 2017 — Globe and Mail — Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty’s chief of staff got instructions on how to double delete e-mails in the summer of 2012, a period when the government was under mounting pressure to release documents related to the controversial cancellation of two gas-fired power plants, court documents show.

Oct 19 2017 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government is dropping one of the three key elements of its controversial small-business tax proposals in response to farmers’ concerns that it would harm the ability to pass on the family farm to the next generation. Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay made the announcement at a farm in the […]

Oct 19 2017 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — Facebook Inc. is launching an initiative to help Canadian politicians and parties protect their accounts in the lead-up to the next federal election, while acknowledging the difficulties of policing fake news and misleading ads on its platform. The social-media company will launch a Canadian “election integrity initiative” on Thursday, Kevin Chan, Facebook Canada’s head of […]

Oct 19 2017 — Konrad Yakabuski — Globe and Mail — New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh has a fuzzy understanding of the right to self-determination. Either that, or the trained lawyer sees a political advantage in leaving his position on the right to secession, and the ease with which it can be exercised, open to interpretation as he courts Quebec and Sikh separatists in his […]

Oct 19 2017 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Finance Minister Bill Morneau told the company he once helmed that he would be placing his substantial holdings of Morneau Shepell in a blind trust – a mechanism used by cabinet members in office to insulate themselves from conflict-of-interest accusations. Ultimately, he changed his mind and instead indirectly kept his holdings – a decision that […]

Oct 18 2017 — Konrad Yakabuski — Globe and Mail — The only surprise about Bombardier’s move to surrender control of the C Series to one or the other member of the planet’s big-airplane duopoly is that it took this long. During this nearly two-decade-long saga, the odds were always stacked against Bombardier. Its decision to try to take on Airbus and Boeing on their own […]

Oct 17 2017 — Globe and Mail — Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, speaking publicly for the first time on Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s financial arrangements, made it clear she didn’t advise the Toronto politician against establishing a blind trust for his substantial assets. The federal watchdog emphasized that she merely advised him there was no need to set one up.

Oct 17 2017 — Globe and Mail — Bombardier Inc.’s chief executive has expressed confidence that the deal to sell control of the C Series aircraft division to Airbus Group SE will resolve the trade dispute with Boeing Co. The agreement with Airbus could see some C Series aircraft assembled at its plant in Alabama. That would skirt duties of nearly 300 per […]

Oct 17 2017 — Steven Chase and Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending his Finance Minister over the ex-businessman’s decision not to place his substantial wealth in a blind trust while serving in public office, saying Bill Morneau merely did as instructed by the Ethics Commissioner. As The Globe and Mail reported on Monday, Mr. Morneau, who is among the richest members […]

Oct 17 2017 — Gloria Galloway — Globe and Mail — David Johnston has retired from seven years of representing the Queen but says his work to build a better Canada will continue at the country’s largest professional-services firm. Deloitte Canada will announce on Tuesday that the 76-year-old Mr. Johnston, who recently stepped down as Canada’s 28th governor-general, has been hired as an executive adviser helping […]