Apr 20 2018 — Marieke Walsh — iPolitics — Liberal campaign co-chair apologizes after calling Ford a “dick.” The war of words between Doug Ford and Kathleen Wynne reached new lows Friday. Veteran Liberal strategist and the provincial party’s campaign co-chair David Herle went on live TV Friday to lay into Ford. “I think people think Doug Ford’s a bit of a dick to […]
Apr 20 2018 — Marieke Walsh — iPolitics — After telling reporters in March he would meet with Ontario’s integrity commissioner within days, Doug Ford has yet to make that meeting happen. A month ago Ford told reporters he would be erecting a wall between his political life and his family-owned company by putting his company — Deco Labels & Tags — into a […]
Apr 19 2018 — Tasha Kheiriddin — iPolitics — With the Ontario election 50 days away, and the provincial Liberals trailing badly in the polls, Premier Kathleen Wynne did the inevitable: she played the Trump card. While making a health care announcement at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, the Liberal Premier compared PC leader Doug Ford to the US President. “Doug Ford sounds like Donald […]
Apr 18 2018 — Rachel Gilmore — iPolitics — An NDP motion calling on the Pope to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system failed Wednesday when Conservative MPs voted against it. The motion required unanimous consent to pass. While a handful of Conservatives shouted their opposition, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis was by far the most vocal. “It is quite […]
Apr 18 2018 — Tim Naumetz — iPolitics — MP Neil Ellis was rushed to hospital from his Parliament Hill office Tuesday evening. Liberal caucus whip Pablo Rodriquez was unable to provide details after confirming the first-term Ontario MP had experienced a significant medical event. ‘’There was an issue that occurred which involved one individual only and it was a result of a medical […]
Apr 18 2018 — Kathryn May — iPolitics — RCMP officers have reached another milestone in their drive to form their first union. The National Police Federation, which applied to represent 18,000 RCMP members, said a certification vote will be held this spring for Mounties to decide on the labour organization to represent them. The Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, which […]
Apr 18 2018 — Marieke Walsh — iPolitics — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne took her attacks on the Progressive Conservative leader to the next level Wednesday, calling Doug Ford Ontario’s Donald Trump. “Doug Ford sounds like Donald Trump and that’s because he is like Donald Trump,” Wynne told reporters. “He believes in [an] ugly vicious brand of politics that traffics in smears and lies. […]
Apr 17 2018 — Janice Dickson — iPolitics — Liberal MP Iqra Khalid is pushing back against criticism over her decision to introduce a religious leader at an event who reportedly supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “Like any MP, I engage with a diverse array of individuals, stakeholders and groups in my community-many of them I don’t agree with. I recently attended a community […]
Apr 15 2018 — Susan Delacourt — iPolitics — It’s been a weekend filled with talk of “de-risking” and “deconfliction.” The “derisking” conversation was swirling around the pipeline meeting on Sunday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers of Alberta and British Columbia. The talk about “deconfliction” was about another news story altogether — much-discussed in the context of U.S. military strikes in […]
Apr 12 2018 — Tim Naumetz — iPolitics — A national coalition of gun owners is furious after Liberal party disclosed the advocacy group referenced in a Liberal fundraising email blitz over government gun-control legislation last month was “Canada’s NRA.” As firearm owner reaction to the bill grows, the popularity of a Commons E-Petition attacking the legislation suggests the battle over the firearm initiative […]
Apr 11 2018 — Rachel Gilmore — iPolitics — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under fire on Twitter Wednesday for what critics saw as a bare-bones itinerary in the midst of a red-hot pipeline crisis — he’s scheduled for a day of “personal” business on the heels of an emergency cabinet meeting about the floundering Kinder Morgan project. The personal day comes just before […]
Apr 11 2018 — Tasha Kheiriddin — iPolitics — Don’t cry over spilled milk. It’s one of the cardinal rules in politics, particularly when you lose an election. What’s done is done: best to move on with grace, even if you still seethe in silence, and wait for the next opportunity to reenter the fray. Unless you are Conservative MP Maxime Bernier, that is.
Apr 11 2018 — Marieke Walsh — iPolitics — The Conservative party has lost its bid to toss failed leadership candidate Brad Trost’s court case. In a decision released Monday, Justice Markus Koehnen rejected two arguments put forward by the Conservatives to immediately quash Trost’s case and punted a third one to the review panel scheduled to hear the case. “I am referring the […]
Apr 10 2018 — Susan Delacourt — iPolitics — Canadians’ trust in Facebook appears to be in free fall — and it’s a downward plummet that started even before the ongoing uproar over alleged abuse of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica and other data-mining firms. An annual “CanTrust Index” is showing a 17-point drop in trust for Facebook in just one year — from […]
Apr 4 2018 — Kyle Duggan — iPolitics — Three Conservative Senators are meeting with Trump administration officials in Washington today to talk about Canada’s plans to legalize cannabis. The trio – Sens. Claude Carignan, Denise Batters, and Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu – said in a joint statement that they were dissatisfied with explanations from top bureaucrats and Liberal cabinet ministers testifying on how legalizing cannabis […]