Nov 29 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — The former director of Canada’s spy agency says recent Conservative and Liberal governments have “failed abominably” on foreign policy work with China. Richard Fadden, who led the Canadian Security Intelligence Service until his retirement in 2016, told an audience Thursday that he sat in on cabinet meetings for years “listening to ministers and prime ministers […]
Nov 14 2019 — HuffPost Canada — Western conservative leaders are firing back at Yves-Francois Blanchet after the Bloc Quebecois leader said he had “no advice” for Western separatists looking to create “an oil state”. “If they were attempting to create a green state in Western Canada, I might be tempted to help them,” Blanchet said Wednesday. “If they are trying to […]
Nov 8 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — ‘What the f**k is that?’ she told HuffPost Canada. In a move described as “totally unreal” by an alleged victim, a powerful Senate committee met on Thursday to discuss possible compensation for staffers who reported — as far back as 2013 — sexual harassment by former senator Don Meredith. “They’ll be evaluating how much I […]
Nov 5 2019 — Althia Raj — HuffPost Canada — It was an inauspicious start. A hurricane changed the Liberals’ original plan to kick off the election campaign on Sept. 9. So with hundreds of thousands without power in Nova Scotia, Justin Trudeau was forced to delay the election call for two days — to Sept. 11. While Trudeau’s 2015 victory was based on having […]
Nov 1 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — At least 103 NDP candidates received fewer than 10 per cent of votes in their ridings, rendering those campaigns ineligible for partial reimbursement for election expenses. It’s extra money the party won’t have in its war chest should a snap election be triggered by the collapse of the Liberal minority government. Melissa Bruno, the NDP’s […]
Oct 18 2019 — HuffPost Canada — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is defending his party’s new claim that a hypothetical Liberal-NDP coalition would raise the federal goods and services tax (GST), even though neither of those parties have even mentioned the idea. Scheer was grilled by reporters at an announcement in Fredericton Friday, after his party issued a press release claiming — […]
Oct 18 2019 — Althia Raj — HuffPost Canada — Should the Liberals form a minority government Monday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will have to decide whether he abides by party policy or ditches the New Democrats’ commitment to electoral reform to work with Justin Trudeau. Last February, New Democrat members voted to recommend that proportional representation — the idea that a party should have […]
Oct 16 2019 — Ryan Maloney — HuffPost Canada — Former United States president Barack Obama has endorsed the re-election bid of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Obama made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday, touting Trudeau as a “hard-working, effective leader” who takes on big issues like climate change. “The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for […]
Oct 13 2019 — Althia Raj — HuffPost Canada — If the Conservatives win the most seats on election night but not a majority, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will ask Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and other parties to form a coalition government. “Oh absolutely, because we are not going to support a Conservative government. We are going to fight a Conservative government. We […]
Sep 29 2019 — Althia Raj and Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Federal Liberals plan to tax Netflix, Google, and Facebook, as well as the rich who buy private jets and yachts, as a way of offsetting even larger structural deficits, the party announced Sunday. The Grits laid out more than 48 new measures, nearly $57-billion in “investments” aimed at helping make life more affordable for the […]
Sep 26 2019 — Ryan Maloney — HuffPost Canada — Andrew Scheer plans to be the only major federal leader to sit out climate protests taking place at more than 140 different places across Canada Friday. At a press conference in Montreal Thursday, the Conservative leader said the Tories will have “representation,” in the form of local candidates, at a massive climate march set to […]
Sep 24 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — After former Saskatchewan MP Larry Spencer was turfed from the Canadian Alliance in 2003 for making inflammatory comments about homosexuality, a young Andrew Scheer stayed on to work in his office. Spencer had told a Vancouver Sun reporter he believed homosexuality was a conspiracy and that he would support a bill to criminalize it. Stephen […]
Sep 16 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Justin Trudeau accused the Conservatives Monday of being “in the pocket of the gun lobby,” saying they would no doubt oppose the Liberals’ not-yet-announced gun policy. Trudeau made the comment during a Waterloo, Ont. media availability — his first time taking reporters’ questions since Friday. Pressed on why his government had not taken tougher action […]
Sep 14 2019 — Zi-Ann Lum — HuffPost Canada — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s plans for a “down day” to take his family to a wave pool were rattled Saturday after he was pressed about an Ottawa-area candidate’s friendship with white supremacist Faith Goldy. Scheer faced new questions about his party’s links with Goldy after an undated video surfaced showing a reality show pilot pitched […]
Sep 12 2019 — Althia Raj — HuffPost Canada — Mike Skinner wants me to know this meeting he’s organizing is not related to his election bid. The Conservative candidate says he’s just bringing some folks from the community together to tackle a crisis they all think the province and the federal government should do more to address: opioids. It’s the end of June and […]