Jan 28 2022 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by siding with truckers rolling to Ottawa in protest against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. That support could galvanize his leadership, or sink it. He’s willing to take that chance. “The mood is changing,” Mr. O’Toole said in an interview Friday. […]
Jan 28 2022 — Globe and Mail — Latvian political leaders are pitching a plan to boost defence spending to better deter Russian expansionism, and are asking Canada and Western allies for military assistance to bolster the NATO alliance’s eastern flank. Rising tensions between NATO and Moscow over the future of Ukraine have added fresh anxiety to long-standing fears among Latvia and its […]
Jan 27 2022 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — It’s no coincidence that the Foothills Conservative riding association in Alberta and the Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek riding association in Saskatchewan are the latest to push for an early review of Erin O’Toole’s leadership. It’s also no coincidence that Saskatchewan members defied Mr. O’Toole and kept dissident Senator Denise Batters in their caucus, or that deputy […]
Jan 27 2022 — Robert Fife — Globe and Mail — Deputy Prime Minster Chrystia Freeland scores higher than Justin Trudeau as the preferred choice as leader of the Liberal Party with a new poll showing Canadians are deeply divided about the Prime Minister’s performance. Ms. Freeland, who does double duty as finance minister and is playing a key role in Canada’s response to the Russian-Ukrainian […]
Jan 27 2022 — Globe and Mail — An internal review of the Conservative Party’s 2021 election campaign says the party needs to recruit a wider diversity of candidates and improve its ethnic outreach if it hopes to improve on last year’s results and make gains in Canada’s largest cities, according to a Conservative source. Former Conservative MP James Cumming has completed his […]
Jan 27 2022 — Kristy Kirkup — Globe and Mail — The premiers are united in their push for more health care funding from the federal government and are using the pandemic as a means to bolster their argument that the system needs a massive cash infusion. The 13 provincial and territorial premiers in the Council of the Federation (COF) will hold a meeting next Friday, […]
Jan 26 2022 — Gary Mason — Globe and Mail — he walls are closing in on federal Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole. The Opposition Leader heads into a caucus retreat this week a marked man. Influential conservatives outside government aren’t too thrilled with him either. The question is how far his supporters will go to defend him and keep him in the job, with so […]
Jan 26 2022 — Globe and Mail — A Conservative riding association is calling for the federal party to move ahead quickly with a leadership review of Erin O’Toole as a new poll shows almost half of respondents feel he has done a poor job as leader. Late on Monday, the Foothills riding association in Alberta sent the federal party a request to […]
Jan 25 2022 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — As Russia masses troops on Ukraine’s borders, poised to invade, a chorus of voices urges the democracies to do nothing to deter it. They include, of course, the Trumpist right, whose indifference to Ukraine is of a piece with their worship of Vladimir Putin, but also the pacifist left, who insist there can be no […]
Jan 25 2022 — John Ibbitson — Globe and Mail — For almost two years, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by spending money at levels never seen in peacetime, to protect workers, businesses and the health-care system. That spending was necessary. But this year the bill comes due. And it won’t be pretty. The federal deficit skyrocketed from less than 1 […]
Jan 24 2022 — Ian Bailey — Globe and Mail — Erin O’Toole says he has no problem with Tory MPs from Saskatchewan confirming Senator Denise Batters as a member of their provincial Conservative caucus, even though Mr. O’Toole previously removed Ms. Batters from the national caucus after she publicly challenged his leadership of the party. “I don’t really mind,” Mr. O’Toole told a Monday news […]
Jan 23 2022 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — A senior Google executive is urging Canadian lawmakers not to go too far as they prepare to debate a wave of government bills aimed at imposing new rules on web giants. In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail’s editorial board, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, Kent Walker, said the […]
Jan 21 2022 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — eleasing classified information on the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top-security infectious-diseases laboratory could reveal intelligence-gathering tradecraft, says the former civil servant who oversaw the file. Vincent Rigby, who retired in September as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser, said parliamentarians should be able to read secret documents that shed light on the […]
Jan 21 2022 — Globe and Mail — RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki calls Beijing’s interference and intimidation operations targeting people who immigrate from China to Canada a “problem,” and says victims can report the harassment to Canadian authorities without fear. Ms. Lucki said Friday in an interview that she had no details at hand about the scale of the issue, but is looking […]
Jan 21 2022 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — When the economist Sir Alan Peacock was commissioned by Margaret Thatcher to conduct a review of the financing of the BBC in 1984, it was widely assumed the BBC was in for a radical overhaul. At the least, surely, he would call for Britain’s public broadcaster to be funded through sales of advertising, as Mrs. […]