Sep 29 2022 — Peter Mazereeuw — Hill Times — Senator Vern White has resigned from the Red Chamber, effective Oct. 2, and will be rejoining his wife and 10-year-old daughter in Finland, where the family spent the past summer. White’s wife Sari hails from Finland and has family there. White told The Hill Times that his daughter is fluent in Finnish and already attending […]
Sep 28 2022 — Leah Gazan — Hill Times — The prime minister has called it a genocide. The National Inquiry’s Final Report into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) offered a roadmap for action. Yet more than three years after its release, the crisis of violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people continues unabated. We cannot have meaningful reconciliation in this […]
Sep 28 2022 — Stuart Benson — Hill Times — Sept. 30 will mark Canada’s second National Truth and Reconciliation Day, but after taking heavy criticism last year from the public and the media after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the day to take a vacation in Tofino B.C., one advocate says she has high expectations for the government to show that truth and reconciliation […]
Sep 27 2022 — Ian Campbell — Hill Times — Pierre Poilievre’s choice of a new Conservative Party executive director indicates that improving the use of data modelling will be a “primary focus” of the new leader as he puts his stamp on the party, says Conservative strategist Fred DeLorey. Mike Crase is stepping into his new role after recently serving as executive director for […]
Sep 26 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — I suppose when you think you are the second coming of Peter the Great, you can convince yourself of anything. While world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, were at the United Nations calling for an end to the bloody and senseless war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin thumbed his nose. The Russian president called up […]
Sep 26 2022 — Hill Times — Tough public policy issues with no easy solutions, lightning-speed social media interactions, political opportunism, and a minority incumbent government are some factors behind the nasty and divisive rhetoric taking place on both sides of the aisle, causing politicians to be perpetually pre-occupied with their next re-election campaign, say political insiders. “The issues that they’re struggling […]
Sep 21 2022 — CJ Hélie — Hill Times — A planned April 1 increase would be the largest one-time tax increase on Canadian beer consumers and would impose an additional $50-million tax burden on the still-struggling sector.
Sep 21 2022 — Erica Ifill — Hill Times — London Bridge is falling down, indeed. (Fun fact, I used to live near London Bridge when I lived in England. Shoutout to SE1.) The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is over and so is the 10-day dog-and-pony show by which the world was held hostage. Perhaps now we can tell the truth about her legacy—one […]
Sep 21 2022 — Neil Moss — Hill Times — With little foreign policy vision offered by the new Conservative leader during his leadership campaign, experts say Pierre Poilievre now has a “blank slate” to fill the “void.” Despite an ongoing war in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, continued recalculating of Canada’s relationship with China, and worry over the reliability of the United States, […]
Sep 20 2022 — Ian Campbell — Hill Times — Journalists may have to look for other ways of holding officials accountable when faced with politicians who refuse to face media scrutiny, say current and former reporters, some of whom that agree Global News’ David Akin’s recent interruption of new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mid-statement to force a response was an effective approach. “We want […]
Sep 19 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — And so begins the spittle-flecked rule of Pierre Poilievre at the helm of the Conservative Party of Canada. With an apology for harassing texts, firings at the Conservative Party Fund, and another attack on the media, Poilievre, spurs and all, has announced that there is a new marshal in town. But it has been a […]
Sep 19 2022 — Hill Times — With Pierre Poilievre now the Conservative Party leader, the Liberals are expecting a divisive “air war” and nasty exchanges between the two in the daily Question Period and on social media this fall in an effort to define each other in a negative light, say political insiders. “It’s going to be a fist fight,” said […]
Sep 14 2022 — Les Whittington — Hill Times — Pierre Poilievre got a lot of applause during his victory speech on the night of Sept. 10, but the strongest ovation from the assembled Conservatives came when the new leader talked about axing the Liberal government’s COVID-19 health measures. What made Poilievre’s leadership campaign different was his open appeal to the supporters of February’s trucker […]
Sep 14 2022 — Hill Times — After a landslide victory, missing from new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s celebratory speech were some of his more controversial proposals and incendiary political slogans, as insiders and experts say his tone is transitioning for a general election audience. Poilievre (Carleton, Ont.) became the Tory leader on Sept. 10 after winning 68.15 per cent of the […]
Sep 13 2022 — Ian Campbell — Hill Times — With perceived United Conservative Party leadership front-runner Danielle Smith doubling down on her plans to introduce an Alberta sovereignty act if she becomes premier, a number of observers told The Hill Times that—if such an act comes to pass—federal parties, particularly the governing Liberals, should try to take a calming approach focused on listening, to […]