May 7 2023 — Geoffrey Stevens — The Record — Every year, tens of thousands of visitors come to Ottawa, and for many the highlight is the daily question period in the House of Commons — a 45-minute demonstration of democracy in action, or so they are led to anticipate. They are misled. There was a time when question period could be instructive and even […]
Apr 30 2023 — Stephanie Levitz — The Record — Former Ontario PC MPP and federal Conservative leadership contender Roman Baber is attempting a political comeback. Baber will seek the federal Tories’ nomination in the riding of York Centre to be the candidate who tries to unseat current Liberal MP Ya’ara Saks in the next federal election.
Mar 19 2023 — Geoffrey Stevens — The Record — No one in their right mind would have volunteered for the job of the “special rapporteur” to chart a path through the tangled web of accusations, leaked intelligence reports, public controversy and political partisanship that surrounds allegations that agents of the Chinese state interfered in the two most recent federal elections. Only a rare individual, […]
Jan 8 2023 — Geoffrey Stevens — The Record — Pierre Poilievre says one of his first acts when (not if) he becomes prime minister will be to shut down the CBC. There’s nothing surprising about his commitment. Fear and loathing of the public broadcaster has been baked into the identity of the federal Conservatives. To them, the CBC — its management, producers, reporters, program […]
Sep 21 2022 — Eric Blais — The Record — What do Montreal’s Anglophones have in common with Quebec City’s Francophones? More than you might think. Anglo Quebecers are hybrids. Their attitudes are often closer to those of Francophone Quebeckers than those of Anglophones in the ROC. This can also hold true of their political persuasion. There are growing signs many will vote for the […]
Aug 4 2022 — The Record — A Kitchener man has pleaded guilty to threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a raucous campaign stop in Cambridge last year. The man, in his early 30s, pleaded guilty in Kitchener court on Thursday and will be sentenced on Oct. 20. Waterloo Regional Police previously said they began an investigation into alleged threats made toward […]
Jun 19 2022 — Geoffrey Stevens — The Record — Rt. Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Prime Minister of Canada. Dear Prime Minister Poilievre, This may be presumptuous, but I want to be among the first to congratulate you on becoming the 24th prime minister of Canada. As your website, pierre4pm.ca, made clear from the get-go, you did not run just for the leadership of the Conservative […]
Apr 5 2022 — John Milloy — The Record — Premier Doug Ford doesn’t want you to see his ministerial mandate letters. In fact, he is so determined that you never see them that he is taking his case to the Supreme Court of Canada — all on the taxpayer’s dime. With so many other things to worry about — high gas prices, rising COVID-19 […]
Sep 14 2021 — Alex Ballingall — The Record — Polls suggest the Conservatives and Liberals are locked in a tight race for the final sprint to election day, as Erin O’Toole made his most pointed attack on Justin Trudeau since the start of the federal campaign. According to the latest numbers from The Signal, a statistical model that analyzes public polling data to forecast […]
Mar 12 2021 — John Milloy — The Record — Remember high school debating? Teams of bright students trying to make the strongest argument while tearing apart their opponent’s case. I have fond memories of being on a debating team. Not only was it great fun, but one of the girls I once debated against ended up becoming my wife (strangely, we each remember our […]
Oct 30 2020 — Jenn Jefferys — The Record — Has anyone else noticed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems tired lately? Like, really tired? A global pandemic, a climate crisis, BIPOC resistance, Donald Trump’s possible re-election — all this is enough to stress anyone out. Add on the ongoing WE scandal and violent racial and economic tensions rising in Nova Scotia and you’ve got […]
Oct 5 2020 — John Milloy — The Record — In 2003 I was elected to Queen’s Park as part of a government promising fixed election dates. Ontarians would now know that each election would be held four years from the last one. I privately disagreed.
Sep 21 2020 — Jenn Jefferys — The Record — For ambitious feminists living in this country, the challenges facing our head of state in recent weeks have been difficult to watch. Julie Payette has faced several waves of criticism since she was first invested as Canada’s 29th Governor General in October 2017. Initially it was just from news media. But more recently — and […]
Aug 30 2020 — David Olive — The Record — In the short space of the next four weeks, the Trudeau government will design not just a proposed economic recovery plan for Canada, but a lasting economic renaissance only a notch or two shy of Sir John A. Macdonald’s National Policy in its impact. The government will present highlights of its plans for pandemic economic […]