Oct 16 2019 — Bruce Campion-Smith — Toronto Star — No matter who emerges the winner from Monday’s election, the prime minister will take charge of a country divided by an acrimonious election. And those divisions won’t evaporate once the ballots are counted. Indeed, the election results threaten to further exacerbate political fault lines, along geography, gender and the key issues at play. Experts point […]
Oct 16 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Here’s a good-news, bad-news story from the 2019 federal election campaign — the Constitution has sneaked back into national political debate. It’s good news for the couple of hundred of us in Canada who really enjoyed the national-unity dramas of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It’s bad news, presumably, for the millions of other […]
Oct 16 2019 — Kevin Donovan — Toronto Star — The multibillion dollar estate of murdered philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman is part of the police investigation into their deaths, a homicide detective has told a Toronto court. “The information from the (Sherman) estate files is embedded…it is embedded within the ITO,” Det.-Const. Dennis Yim told the Ontario Court of Justice during an application from […]
Oct 16 2019 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — The federal Liberals are prepared to back Toronto’s new Ontario Line with billions in transit funding, the Star has learned. If re-elected on Monday, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will support the line that Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford announced in April.
Oct 15 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — At the centre of the affordability promises that dominate every party’s platform in this election campaign is a riddle: it seems like everyone has a job, so why is no one able to make ends meet? Employers in Canada have been on a tear, as Justin Trudeau reminds us several times a day. The numbers […]
Oct 15 2019 — Toronto Star — Prime Minister Andrew Scheer. It may take some Canadians a little time to wrap their heads around that prospect — and of course, there is that small matter of an actual election to get out of the way first — but the Conservative leader is clearly getting in that frame of mind. Over the past […]
Oct 15 2019 — Kevin Donovan — Toronto Star — The Toronto Police intelligence unit has been called in to the Barry and Honey Sherman murder probe and has recently made a “significant contribution,” according to documents filed in court in the high-profile case. The details of that contribution were not revealed by the police detective who filed the court document, but in it he […]
Oct 14 2019 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — With a week to go to the federal election, the only question still to be answered about the Bloc Québécois is whether it will finish first or second to the Liberals in Quebec next Monday. Neither Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, nor Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives had factored in the possibility of a Bloc resurrection in their game […]
Oct 13 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau and his Liberal team always knew that the 2019 campaign could never be a repeat of 2015. But the security scare at Trudeau’s Mississauga speech on Saturday night drives home just how much has changed in Canadian politics, the country and for the Liberal leader himself since he won the election four years […]
Oct 13 2019 — Alex Boutilier — Toronto Star — A Conservative proposal to make Canadians proactively justify travelling to “terrorism hot spots” is raising eyebrows among experts researching national security and foreign fighters. The Conservatives said Friday they’d create a “reverse onus” for Canadians travelling to regions with known terrorist activity to justify that travel. The party said the idea is aimed at making
Oct 13 2019 — Jaime Watt — Toronto Star — As we all gathered around to celebrate thanksgiving this weekend, I felt especially grateful for my incredible family and so lucky to have with us my amazing mother, a woman whose view of the world and commitment to the service of others has so profoundly influenced me and the person I have become. Sadly, in […]
Oct 13 2019 — Robin V. Sears — Toronto Star — There is a wide chasm between the views of progressive Quebecers and the rest of Canada about social inclusion. The divide is most sharply revealed over Bill 21. Many Quebecers cannot see the racial and cultural offence that the bill’s purported defence of “laicity” — a secular state free of religion — inflicts on citizens […]
Oct 12 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Election campaigns — especially this current one in Canada — are not the ideal training ground for political co-operation. They’re fiercely competitive, filled with all-or-nothing rhetoric and reward those who stand their ground in the face of criticism.
Oct 12 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — The Conservatives have finally shown on paper how they would achieve what they’ve promised for months now: a balanced budget within five years, by squeezing the civil service, tightening their fist around operating budgets and delaying billions in infrastructure spending. Released on the Friday afternoon before Thanksgiving weekend, just as advance polls opened across the […]
Oct 11 2019 — Alex Boutilier — Toronto Star — The Conservatives are promising $35.4 billion in spending cuts over five years to make good on their pledge to balance the federal books if they are elected to form Canada’s next government. Most of the big-ticket items in the election platform released Friday by Leader Andrew Scheer — a cut in the income tax, a […]