Oct 23 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — Huffington Post — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has dropped some breadcrumbs for what his eventual climate plan will look like, saying he believes Canada can reduce global emissions rather than domestic — and without a carbon tax. Scheer took shots at the Liberal government’s plan to impose a carbon price on recalcitrant provinces during an interview with CBC […]
Oct 18 2018 — Emma Paling — Huffington Post — Ontario Premier Doug Ford should pour cold water on the rumour that he wants to get into federal politics instead of stoking the flames, a federal Liberal minister suggested. “You get a four-year job, and you’re 10 per cent into it, and you’re already looking to upgrade? I can’t imagine that that’s very constructive,” Intergovernmental […]
Oct 16 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — They cried out for action, waved their arms in the air, and pleaded with the Liberal federal government to do more to save the planet for their children and grandchildren. They were the three MPs — Liberal Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and NDP parliamentary Leader Guy Caron — who requested an emergency […]
Oct 15 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — The Green Party and the NDP have joined a Liberal backbench MP’s call for an emergency debate to address what Canada can do to avoid catastrophic climate change. Last week, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a frightening report outlining how the world is headed towards irreversible heating of the planet —and the […]
Oct 14 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — Canadian charities whose status was targeted by prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives say they are concerned that changes the Liberals are proposing won’t prevent a future government from going after them again. Canada Without Poverty and the Sierra Club Canada Foundation told HuffPost Canada they were distressed to discover Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is […]
Oct 12 2018 — Ryan Maloney — Huffington Post — Former prime minister Stephen Harper says it is “unequivocal” that the United States scored a good deal with the revamped North American trade pact, while Canada tried to mitigate losses. Harper made the remark during a discussion at the Canadian Club of Toronto Thursday promoting his new book, “Right Here, Right Now,” which tackles how […]
Oct 1 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau boasted in Ottawa on Monday that his government had secured a trade deal without capitulating to the Americans, his man at the United Nations was, for the first time, making the case that Canada deserves a spot on the Security Council. If elected to the UN’s most important decision-making body, […]
Sep 26 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — Huffington Post — Graphic details about the murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford dominated question period Wednesday, as Conservatives expressed outrage over news that one of her killers was moved from a maximum-security prison to an aboriginal healing lodge. Terri-Lynne McClintic is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Stafford in 2009. Her ex-boyfriend, Michael Rafferty, is […]
Sep 19 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — One year out from a federal election, Liberals announced more than $1.1 billion in spending across the crucial battleground of Quebec during a 10-week period this summer, an analysis by HuffPost Canada shows. From a $62-million infrastructure project to bring 14 Inuit communities online to $10 million to groom snowmobile and cross-country trails this winter, […]
Sep 19 2018 — Zi-Ann Lum — Huffington Post — The federal government spent the summer making $43 billion worth of funding announcements — aimed primarily at Liberal ridings in Eastern Canada. The size of funding announcements ranged from relatively minor — $4,000 for renovations to a Quebec town’s recreation centre, for example — to major, such as the unveiling of Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, […]
Sep 18 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — People who pollute should pay for it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday, as he demonstrated his willingness to fight the 2019 election campaign defending the upcoming carbon tax. Asked by Maclean’s journalist Paul Wells about going to the voters with the proposition of a new and increasing yearly tax, the prime minister said: “The […]
Sep 13 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — Jagmeet Singh’s name drew squints, blank stares and dismissive shrugs when HuffPost Canada visited the riding of Burnaby South this week. The electoral district is the next battleground for the NDP leader, who will be nominated as the party’s candidate there on Saturday after current New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart officially enters the Vancouver mayoral […]
Sep 12 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh kicked off his party’s caucus meetings in British Columbia Tuesday by admitting he needs to do a better job of communicating with Canadians and of offering a more generous vision than the Liberals have so far offered. “There is no question about it. We’ve got a lot more work to do. […]
Sep 11 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — Federal New Democrats hope leader Jagmeet Singh can successfully hit the reset button this week during a three-day caucus session in British Columbia, after a year of disappointing byelection results, lacklustre fundraising, weak polling numbers and unfavourable media coverage. “We tossed the leader, and the leader stuck around, and we let everything mould on the […]
Aug 27 2018 — Althia Raj — Huffington Post — “When someone who is a member of the Bloc approaches us to ask questions, am I right to say we welcome them with open arms?” Antoine Tardif, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s late 20-something director of Quebec operations, smiles at the question from a party organizer. Tardif, who has been in the job since summer 2017, […]