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Apr 18 2021 — Brian Platt — Postmedia — When Conservative leader Erin O’Toole announced on Thursday that his party will include a carbon price on consumer fuels as part of their election platform, internal backlash was inevitable. Scrapping “Trudeau’s carbon tax” is a core promise the Conservative Party has made to its supporters for years. O’Toole won the Conservative leadership race last year […]

Apr 14 2021 — Postmedia — The triage protocol would mean choosing which patients should be offered potentially life-prolonging care. The idea of people being removed from intensive care, unhooked from ventilators that might have saved them to make room for someone else more likely to survive is almost unfathomable, says the president and CEO of Canada’s largest university hospital. “I […]

Apr 12 2021 — Jesse Snyder — Postmedia — Fees paid by the federal government to third-party consultants have ballooned since the Liberals took office in 2015, with expenditures for engineering, legal and other services rising $6 billion in six years. Costs for “professional and special services” increased to $16.4 billion in 2019-20, up from $9.5 billion when the Liberal government took office — […]

Apr 11 2021 — Chris Varcoe — Postmedia — Old energy, meet new energy. Two new announcements illustrate how Canada’s existing energy system is intersecting with the new energy complex, erasing the line between them. On Thursday, supermajor Shell inked a long-term deal to buy power from a new $200-million-plus wind farm to be built northeast of Drumheller by BluEarth Renewables of Calgary.

Apr 8 2021 — Postmedia — Ontario could be on track for a summer much different than 2020’s, depending on the success of the stay-at-home order combined with the vaccine rollouts, experts say. The province is currently in the middle of a raging third wave, with health officials recording more than 3,000 new cases of the virus daily and hospital ICUs […]

Apr 6 2021 — Tasha Kheiriddin — Postmedia — Last month, the Conservatives held a virtual party convention; this weekend, it’s the NDP and Liberals’ turn. And what a jolly time it promises to be, with policy resolutions that veer from centre-left to downright Trotskyite. Both parties propose a guaranteed basic income, a transition to a green energy economy, and to protect worker pensions. […]

Apr 6 2021 — Postmedia — A tax on tech giants’ digital services the Liberal government has promised to include in the upcoming budget has the potential to evoke retaliatory tariffs from the United States. On March 31, the U.S. Trade Representative said in a series of documents it is considering implementing tariffs on six countries that have adopted such digital […]

Apr 6 2021 — Ryan Tumilty — Postmedia — Liberals will debate proposals to create a network of high-speed rail lines across Canada, a green new deal for the country and a universal basic income at the party’s virtual convention this week. The virtual convention begins Thursday with speeches expected from former Bank of England and Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, former Obama […]

Apr 5 2021 — Jesse Snyder — Postmedia — Mining executives and national security experts are warning the federal government about China’s domination of strategic mineral supplies, saying Ottawa needs to better protect supply chains for modern technology that relies on them like electric vehicles and smart phones. In testimony before the House of Commons natural resources committee this month, experts described China’s decades-long […]

Apr 1 2021 — Tom Blackwell — Postmedia — Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon. The Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.

Mar 30 2021 — Jesse Snyder — Postmedia — The Canadian economy is poised for a sharp rebound this year and next after a year of pandemic restrictions, but a “red hot” housing market fuelled in part by government-funded household savings could still hamper growth, a new report says. The Conference Board Of Canada expects the Canadian economy to grow 5.8 per cent in […]

Mar 30 2021 — Tom Blackwell — Postmedia — A Chinese consul general in Brazil has derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “running dog” of the U.S. whose only accomplishment is to ruin friendly relations with China, the latest example of Beijing’s combative new, “wolf-warrior” brand of diplomacy. Li Yang, based in Rio de Janeiro, also referred to Trudeau as “boy” and a […]

Mar 29 2021 — Christopher Nardi — Postmedia — A Conservative senator is moving to block governors general such as Julie Payette from receiving their generous government pension and benefits if they resign before the end of their mandate. Should Payette, the first ever governor general to resign in the wake of a damning workplace review after three and a half years on the […]

Mar 29 2021 — Brian Platt — Postmedia — Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says he’ll release his climate change platform before the next election kicks off in order to show Canadians that his party takes the issue seriously despite its opposition to the federal carbon tax. The climate change file is a contentious issue for O’Toole, who has repeatedly promised to present an ambitious […]

Mar 26 2021 — Postmedia — It turns out calling an election in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic may have been the inadvertent nail in the political coffin for Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by market researcher Maru/Blu, surveyed 5,267 Canadians between March 2 and 11 on their attitudes toward their […]