Mar 8 2021 — Campbell Clark — Globe and Mail — When Gump Worsley was goalie for the New York Rangers back in the 1950s, a reporter asked him which team gave him the most trouble. “The New York Rangers,” he replied. Now Erin O’Toole knows what that’s like. There is no doubt which team gives the Conservative Leader the most grief. It’s the Conservative Party. […]
Mar 8 2021 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government will not release a budget in March as it takes more time to assess the impact of the pandemic, meaning that more than two years will have passed since the last federal budget was released. A senior government official told The Globe and Mail that March has been ruled out as a […]
Mar 8 2021 — Kristy Kirkup — Globe and Mail — The Correctional Service of Canada does not keep track of whether its employees have been accused of sexual assault, or whether criminal charges have been laid, a data gap that survivors and experts say is allowing a culture of abuse to flourish inside women’s prisons. At least three guards at women’s institutions have been charged […]
Mar 8 2021 — Globe and Mail — Alberta is asking Ottawa to commit to $30-billion in spending or tax incentives over the next decade to spur the building of large-scale industrial carbon capture projects. The provincial government says for Canada to meet climate goals, the country will have to help fund a series of carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, facilities […]
Mar 7 2021 — Globe and Mail — The ruling junta in Myanmar has hired an Israeli-Canadian lobbyist, recently investigated by the RCMP over his activities in Sudan, to help “explain” why the military carried out a coup against the country’s democratically elected government last month. A March 4 contract seen by The Globe and Mail states that Ari Ben-Menashe and his Montreal-based […]
Mar 7 2021 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — A strong majority of Canadians both approve of Parliament’s declaration that China is carrying out genocide against its Uyghur Muslim minority and favour a harder line toward the country, including economic sanctions and moving the 2022 Winter Olympics out of Beijing. A poll by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail shows that 83 per […]
Mar 7 2021 — Robyn Urback — Globe and Mail — Back in November, top public-health officials in Ottawa said they were working on a campaign to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. It was an indulgent thought back then – before a single vial had landed on Canadian soil – and could arguably still be one now, as long as vaccine demand outweighs supply. But the delivery […]
Mar 7 2021 — Brianna Bell — Globe and Mail — At the time the Ontario government announced school closings in March, 2020, I was finally pursuing my dream of becoming a writer, after spending nearly a decade at home raising my three kids. In the early days of the lockdown, my husband and I supported each other as we both worked from home, surrounded by […]
Mar 6 2021 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — Anyone involved in Canadian politics knows that being leader of the Official Opposition is hard, and that growing the fractious Conservative coalition is even harder. That doesn’t change the fact that Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole needs to do a better job. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are vulnerable. Canada’s performance in acquiring vaccines has been mediocre at […]
Mar 6 2021 — Lawrence Martin — Globe and Mail — President Joe Biden projects calm. Donald Trump has been rendered relatively silent without Twitter. Capitol Hill insurrectionists have been arrested. And armed forces are so prevalent in Washington that the capital resembles – what a disgrace for a once-proud democracy – a desolate militarized zone. Despite it all, despite the new president, despite the increased […]
Mar 5 2021 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive who has been fighting extradition to the United States for more than two years, argue in a new court filing that the bank fraud charge upon which the warrant rests is bogus. The U.S. wants Canada to hand over Ms. Meng because, it alleges, she lied to HSBC […]
Mar 5 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — There is a tension at the heart of campaign finance law that never goes away. The rules are designed to limit the influence of money in politics. But the rules are set by politicians. Who are always ravenous for money. We are seeing this dynamic play out once again in Ontario. No sooner had the […]
Mar 5 2021 — Globe and Mail — Social-conservative activists are seeking to dominate this month’s Conservative policy convention by electing large numbers of anti-abortion delegates, which could undermine the leadership of Erin O’Toole. The leaders of anti-abortion groups Campaign Life Coalition and RightNow have been active in nominating slates of candidates at the riding level. “We’ve done very well,” Jeff Gunnarson, national […]
Mar 5 2021 — Globe and Mail — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s top staffer told a senior adviser inside the Prime Minister’s Office three years ago that the minister was troubled by information about former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance, shortly after the minister met with a military watchdog. Mr. Sajjan’s then-chief of staff, Zita Astravas, spoke to Elder Marques, a senior […]
Mar 5 2021 — Campbell Clark — Globe and Mail — For women in the Canadian Forces, there is no way to look up the ranks, past top military brass, to find the person who is accountable when there are allegations of sexual misconduct against high-ranking officers. There is no one. Not Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, who is supposed to be responsible, but who can’t give […]