Globe and Mail

Jan 24 2020 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — Steven Guilbeault is the Minister of Canadian Heritage, but he often refers to his time as an environmental activist to describe how he plans to force foreign-based internet platforms to fund the creation of cultural content in this country. International web giants have rejected attempts to regulate them and have lobbied against plans to compel […]

Jan 24 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Perhaps you saw that clip from the CBC’s latest offering, as part of its mandate to “inform, enlighten and entertain” Canadians at the same time as it reflects “Canada’s various geographic, cultural and linguistic realities and identities” while protecting Canadian culture from the ravages of global – but I digress. The show is called Family […]

Jan 23 2020 — Globe and Mail — The virus that has infected hundreds in China shows signs of being far worse than SARS, the pandemic that killed nearly 800 people 17 years ago, a prominent virologist has warned after travelling to Wuhan, where the new coronavirus first began to spread.

Jan 23 2020 — Lori Turnbull — Globe and Mail — If the evolution of the Conservative movement in Canada had gone differently, Scott Brison would be announcing his candidacy for the party’s leadership. And he’d be at the front of the pack. Mr. Brison was first elected as a Progressive Conservative member of Parliament back in 1997 in the Nova Scotia riding of Kings Hants. […]

Jan 22 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — As you will no doubt be aware, this month marks the 50th anniversary of the federal White Paper on Metric Conversion in Canada, kicking off what the Pierre Trudeau government called the “inevitable” transition to metric measurement. “All units of measurement used in Canada,” declared the Weights and Measures Act, passed later the same year, […]

Jan 22 2020 — Globe and Mail — Ottawa says it will weigh geopolitical considerations in addition to national security in its decision on whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from future 5G wireless networks. The United States and Australia, allies of Canada in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group, have already barred the flagship Chinese firm from supplying gear for their 5G […]

Jan 21 2020 — Tom Flanagan — Globe and Mail — Peter MacKay has decided to enter the race for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC); this is good for the party and good for Canada. Readers will recall that Mr. MacKay was the newly chosen leader of the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) when he and Stephen Harper agreed in 2003 to put their careers […]

Jan 21 2020 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting a potential “prisoner exchange” to obtain the freedom of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, despite his failure to use recent China-U.S. trade talks as leverage to secure the release of the two Canadians detained in China.

Jan 21 2020 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — An independent analysis of the last Parliament found MPs voted with their own party 99.6 per cent of the time and displayed unhealthy levels of partisanship, polarization and hostility. In its latest report on parliamentary trends, the Samara Centre for Democracy spoke with MPs who sat in the House the Commons between 2015 and 2019. […]

Jan 20 2020 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — The federal government plans to implement its gun-control strategy in a multistep process, acting quickly to prohibit the sale of assault weapons but taking more time for other measures, including a partial handgun ban that requires negotiations with the provinces, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said. During last fall’s election campaign, the Liberals promised to […]

Jan 20 2020 — Globe and Mail — An Alberta-based group that became a target for Premier Jason Kenney in last year’s provincial election is threatening legal action over a public inquiry into the funding of environmentalists. A lawyer for Progress Alberta, an Edmonton-based non-profit that has been a vocal critic of Mr. Kenney’s United Conservative Party government, sent a letter last week […]

Jan 20 2020 — Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Official Opposition is calling for the Canadian ambassador to Beijing appear as the first witness before a special committee in this minority Parliament, which was set up to probe the prolonged diplomatic crisis between Canada and China. The Conservative Party has written Dominic Barton notifying him of the possibility he may be asked to […]

Jan 20 2020 — Sean Fine — Globe and Mail — An extradition hearing unlike any in Canadian history begins Monday in a high-security, basement courtroom of the B.C. Supreme Court, with trade and diplomatic relations with China at risk, and the fate of two Canadians jailed in China in question. Ever since the RCMP arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on Dec. 1, 2018, Canada has […]

Jan 17 2020 — Eddie Goldenberg — Globe and Mail — The first stage of the extradition hearings for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications and technology giant Huawei, who was arrested by the RCMP in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, at the request of the United States and has been out on bail for more than a year, will begin Monday in […]

Jan 17 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — When, in 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the section of the Criminal Code forbidding assisting suicide, it overturned not only the law but its own previous ruling, in the celebrated 1993 case of Sue Rodriguez. Courts are usually loath to do this: Under the legal doctrine of stare decisis, they are generally […]