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 […]
Jul 17 2020 — Jenn Jefferys — The Record — I’ll never forget the impeccable grace by which a close friend once reacted to a bundle of sage that was for sale at a chain department store, not long before shopping in stores became so complicated and anxiety-inducing. Half Mohawk and half Anishinaabekwe, my friend was justifiably furious as this sacred medicine was to be […]
Jul 6 2020 — John Milloy — The Record — As Canada emerges from COVID-19, our public policy to-do list is very long: long-term care; precarious workers; systemic racism in policing and other institutions; jobs; and poverty — to name just a few. Justin Trudeau better step up — right? Get with the program, people. Canada is a federation in which responsibilities are divided between […]
Jun 11 2020 — Jenn Jefferys — The Record — There’s no swab test for the illnesses in the looming echo pandemic, but they pose a threat just as urgent as COVID-19. Mandatory isolation orders, though imperative, have fractured tangible human connection for months. The front-line is burnt out, businesses are collapsing, and parents are justifiably exhausted. The coronavirus has made life difficult even for […]
Jun 10 2020 — John Milloy — The Record — Ontario’s next election is only two years away — is Doug Ford beatable? Although the last few weeks have been rocky, most Ontarians appear pleased with our premier. Like the citizens of Whoville on Christmas morning, we celebrate how a pandemic has caused the heart of the man — who once joyfully cancelled a minimum […]
May 7 2020 — Alex Boutilier — The Record — As Canada’s closest allies call for a probe into China’s early handling of the coronavirus outbreak, Ottawa is steering clear of the issue — and for good reasons, experts say. The federal government is calling for a comprehensive “postcrisis review” into the COVID-19 pandemic, including the virus’s origins and how countries and the World Health […]