Aug 13 2020 — John Ivison — National Post — Any moves by Canada to sanction Chinese officials for human rights violations against the Muslim Uyghur population would be met with a “strong and resolute reaction,” according to China’s ambassador in Ottawa. A letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed by 64 Canadian MPs and senators called for sanctions to be levied against officials deemed […]
Aug 13 2020 — National Post — Nepean MPP Lisa MacLeod will be under police protection in Ottawa after “threatening emails” and an unexplained “mischievous incident” targeting the minister after she appeared on a local radio program to condemn recent harassment against other local female politicians. MacLeod appeared on 580 CFRA to speak out against the harassment recently faced by MP Catherine […]
Aug 13 2020 — Justin Ling — National Post — Shortly after noon in June 2016, a man approached Joe Cox, his local member of Parliament, as she readied to meet her constituents in the quaint English town of Birstall. The man, enraged with her Labour politics, policies and maybe just her audacity to enter politics as a woman, shot her three times and stabbed […]
Aug 10 2020 — John Ivison — National Post — The echo chamber of Canadian politics reverberated with some particularly juicy scuttlebutt last week. Mark Carney was set to announce as a Liberal candidate and become Canada’s finance minister, it was heard and said. The utterly imaginary ascended to the level of sure thing, thanks to two events. First, well-regarded York Centre Liberal MP Michael […]
Aug 6 2020 — National Post — On the same day another Canadian was sentenced to death on drug charges in China, MPs were warned Canada must adopt a tougher stance with the Asian nation. The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate Court announced Canadian Xu Weihong’s penalty on Thursday and said an alleged accomplice, Wen Guanxiong, had been given a life sentence.
Aug 5 2020 — National Post — Some of the political parties claiming the federal government’s wage subsidy are comparing their lows of 2020 to election-year highs of 2019 in order to justify getting the taxpayer cash to pay their employees. The Liberals, Conservatives, Greens and NDP all claimed the Canada Emergency Wage subsidy (CEWS), citing major drops in donations due to […]
Aug 5 2020 — Tom Blackwell — National Post — Canada’s first big push for a COVID-19 vaccine may be falling victim to sour relations with Beijing, as Chinese officials continue to hold up a shipment of the drug needed to carry out promised human trials here. CanSino Biologics of Tianjin, China signed an accord with the federal government in May to have its vaccine […]
Aug 4 2020 — National Post — There were no big tent events, employee pricing offers or inflatable flailing tube men, but the government managed to sell 575 cars in 2018 and 2019, after buying them for just a few days as part of the 2018 G7 summit. The sale of 575 vehicles brought the government $19.5 million after it initially spent […]
Aug 1 2020 — Brian Platt — National Post — Last week, after news broke that a dozen Rideau Hall staffers were alleging verbal abuse and a hostile work environment created by Governor General Julie Payette, the phone of a former employee at the Montreal Science Centre lit up. “When the news came out, I got 15 or 16 texts from friends, coworkers, ex-coworkers: ‘Oh […]
Jul 31 2020 — National Post — Nine months ago, Doug Fisher, a longtime resident of Cabbagetown in Toronto, contacted Mayor John Tory’s office about concerns he had regarding the city’s decision to turn a commercial building in his neighbourhood into a women’s shelter. He found the decision odd — why would the former headquarters of WE Charity, that was smack in […]
Jul 31 2020 — National Post — Canada’s federal government paid $10.5 million through a program to climate change researchers for studies that were never completed, along with other work that was barely read, Blacklock’s Reporter reports. “The program faces many challenges,” wrote auditors with the Department of Fisheries.
Jul 30 2020 — John Ivison — National Post — Jean Chrétien used to tell his cabinet a folksy allegory that suggests how he would have handled the WE affair. A farmer is covered in cow dung but knows that if he tries to wipe the manure away while fresh, he will spread it all around and make it worse. So he waits until it […]
Jul 28 2020 — Licia Corbella — National Post — In December 2012 I travelled to Lebanon with World Vision’s then Canadian President, Dave Toycen. World Vision wanted to show Canadians the life-saving aid the international charity was providing to refugees fleeing from civil war in Syria. Toycen, along with another Canadian staff member and me, stayed at a home in a safe and secure […]
Jul 25 2020 — National Post — Part of WE Charity’s overseas trips allow people from North America to “step into the shoes of Maasai warriors” in Kenya, or “experience a shamanic ceremony and get hands–on weapons training” in Ecuador. The trips, offered through WE’s for profit arm ME to WE, cost over US$4,000.
Jul 24 2020 — Chris Selley — National Post — The basic, greasy, hardly-even-in-dispute details of the Kielburger Affair are by now safely on the record, and seem unlikely to change significantly. Basically, friends of the prime minister got a big fat contract on the dubious premise that no one else could perform the work, some of which was itself a bit dubious. All the […]