Sep 21 2019 — Joseph Brean — Postmedia — The Liberal Party of Canada has again denied its leader Justin Trudeau ever had drinks with the controversial Faith Goldy, after another woman told the National Post she was with them at the Château Laurier in Ottawa one festive night in the winter of 2012.
Sep 20 2019 — Andrew Coyne — Postmedia — By now it should be clear there is something wrong with Justin Trudeau. We are not unfamiliar with the public figure who, at some point in his past, did something remarkably stupid or offensive like black up his face for a party. We have no experience with a leader, a prime minister no less, who […]
Sep 20 2019 — Maura Forrest — Postmedia — The Liberal government missed an opportunity to advance reconciliation with First Nations, former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould says in a new book, claiming “more could have been done” by the government that promised to transform its relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Sep 19 2019 — Joe Oliver — Postmedia — The shocking photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Aladdin in blackface is a severe blow to his crumbling authenticity, especially since he incessantly virtue-signalled support for diversity, while keeping his own racially mocking behaviour secret. Up until now, the many other egregious blunders and blatant untruths haven’t fatally damaged his re-election prospects, although he […]
Sep 19 2019 — Postmedia — A Liberal candidate in British Columbia says some of his campaign signs have been vandalized with black colouring on his face. Stephen Fuhr, who is running for re-election in the riding of Kelowna-Lake Country, says at least five signs were coloured with what appears to be black marker. Fuhr says it’s sad, but he doesn’t […]
Sep 19 2019 — Postmedia — Alfie MacLeod was once a shepherd. As Cape Breton tried to boost its economy in 1975, it imported 1,500 sheep from Scotland, and MacLeod was hired to look after them during their years of quarantine. As the federal Conservative candidate in the riding of Cape Breton-Canso, MacLeod has built a profile from his history of […]
Sep 19 2019 — Andrew Coyne — Postmedia — I believe I was the first to propose the creation of an Economists Party, a political movement that would advocate for the sorts of policies favoured by people who study economics for a living, based on the principles at its core. It could not happen, of course, any more than the existing parties are likely […]
Sep 19 2019 — Postmedia — He purported to be taking responsibility, but he called the brownface he wore in that shocking Time Magazine photo “makeup.” No sir. Makeup is what people wear to enhance or improve the look of their skin. Makeup is what even I might wear to a wedding this weekend. Brownface ain’t makeup. Brownface is having a […]
Sep 18 2019 — John Ivison — Postmedia — Andrew Scheer is back in Ontario and the Doug Ford questions hung over his campaign event like the smog that sometimes blankets this blue collar steel town. The Conservative leader has a snappy answer to suggestions he plans to do to the country what critics say Ford is doing to this province — namely, swingeing […]
Sep 17 2019 — Joseph Brean — Postmedia — The Liberal Party of Canada on Monday issued a statement denying that leader Justin Trudeau ever had drinks with Faith Goldy, a former journalist and far-right activist whose politically toxic image has dominated the tit-for-tat historical scandal mongering of the election’s early days. Just a few days before, Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey hurried from a […]
Sep 17 2019 — Christie Blatchford — Postmedia — As Kim Campbell, the former short-lived Conservative PM, once famously said, “An election is no time to discuss serious issues”. This was actually a précis of her slightly longer answer to the late Peter Gzowski, who had asked for details on her plan to reform Canada’s welfare programs and Campbell curtly replied, “This is not […]
Sep 16 2019 — Andrew Coyne — Postmedia — Elections are defining moments for a nation: in deciding what it stands for, it also decides who and what it is. In the present election the issue on which we are being asked, most directly, to decide where we stand is Quebec’s Bill 21: the provincial law banning public servants “in positions of authority” from […]
Sep 16 2019 — John Ivison — Postmedia — Feet were tapping and snowy heads nodding, as Cracklin’ Rosie blasted over the PA system in a packed auditorium. This was verdant pasture for any Conservative leader — the jewel of Vancouver Island, where eagles nest and Canadians come to retire. The room was full of what one of my millennial colleagues rather ungraciously referred […]
Sep 15 2019 — Christie Blatchford — Postmedia — The recent brouhaha about Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey — Should Andrew Scheer fully disown her? Must McCaffrey herself fully denounce her pal Faith Goldy and distance herself from Goldy’s hard right-wing views and past affiliation with white supremacists? — made me think about the nature of friendship. Liberal Maryam Monsef, Canada’s first Muslim Cabinet minister, […]
Sep 15 2019 — John Ivison — Postmedia — Is there a body of voters in this country who were left in foam-flecked apoplexy by the new NAFTA deal signed by Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump last year — besides, perhaps, 13,000 dairy farmers? Andrew Scheer seems to think so. He held an impromptu press conference on his campaign plane at 35,000 feet above […]