Dec 8 2022 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — So, Governor Macklem, are we there yet? Since March, the Bank of Canada has now raised its key interest rate by 400 basis points — a full four percentage points — making good on its vow to “front-load” its battle against inflation. Borrowing money has not been this expensive since before the Great Financial Crisis […]
Dec 6 2022 — Toronto Star — Marit Stiles is the one and only. Stiles will be the next leader of the provincial New Democrats after she was the lone candidate to enter the party contest. The NDP’s 1 a.m. Tuesday deadline passed with no other entrants signing up — more than two months after the Davenport MPP joined the race to […]
Dec 4 2022 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre believes the voters whose support he needs to lead his party to government in the next federal election will not be reached via the mainstream media. His strategy is about to be tested.
Dec 3 2022 — Althia Raj — Toronto Star — Nobel Peace Prize-winning laureate Maria Ressa made the rounds of popular U.S. talk shows this week. The Filipino-American journalist, who helped expose ex-Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism and murderous anti-drug campaign, is a ferocious critic of Facebook for its role spreading anger and lies, and for radicalizing and dividing societies. “If you don’t have facts, […]
Dec 3 2022 — Tonda MacCharles — Toronto Star — “I don’t take edicts from you, you’re not my f—ing boss.” That’s what an Ontario cabinet minister snapped at her federal counterpart in February as he pressed for answers about how the province and Ontario Provincial Police would handle so-called “Freedom Convoy” protesters who had by then paralyzed downtown Ottawa for nearly two weeks.
Dec 3 2022 — Stephanie Levitz — Toronto Star — Gun owners whose weapons end up banned under a proposed sweeping new firearms bill could be eligible for compensation, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Friday, as the Liberals work to contain political pushback over their latest efforts to regulate guns. Whether newly banned guns would qualify for a buyback program already in the works […]
Dec 1 2022 — Duane Bratt — Toronto Star — The past week has seen quite the juxtaposition in Canadian politics. Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified under oath to the Public Order Emergency Commission over his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. On Tuesday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith introduced her signature piece of legislation: The Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act. Both […]
Dec 1 2022 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — Premier Doug Ford says auditor general Bonnie Lysyk should “stay in her lane” and audit government spending, not run undercover sting operations at casinos that rankle police. In his first public comments the morning after Lysyk’s annual report to the legislature, Ford expressed concern that she had moved far beyond her mandate to track government […]
Nov 28 2022 — Robin V. Sears — Toronto Star — Trudeau is often content to speak in bland, fluffy pronouncements — but on Friday, the veil slipped. Why have we never seen this person before? Through hours of often intense grilling at the Emergencies Act inquiry on Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed a side of himself few Canadians have ever seen. A politician who […]
Nov 27 2022 — Toronto Star — Next to the European Union, Canada is the world‘s second-largest producer of durum wheat, the grain that is used in semolina to make pasta and couscous. But is Canadian wheat as impeccable as we like to believe? Or is its cultivation tainted by the controversial use of the pesticide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup? […]
Nov 27 2022 — Eric Blais — Toronto Star — “Everything feels broken in the lives of ordinary Canadians.” It has become Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s mantra. He won the leadership of his party by promising to make Canada the freest nation on earth. Now he’s running to form the next government by promising to fix what he and his followers feel is broken. Strong […]
Nov 26 2022 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — A decade and a half ago, the publication of the findings of the inquiry into what was known as the federal sponsorship scandal signalled the beginning of the end of a dozen-year Liberal tenure. Justice John Gomery’s final report — and the blame it apportioned to Jean Chrétien’s government — led to the defeat of […]
Nov 26 2022 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau’s crises have been anything but ordinary in his seven years as prime minister. It was Donald Trump in his first term, a global pandemic in his second term and then, as if that wasn’t enough, a massive “Freedom Convoy” protest to kick off his third mandate. Trudeau is, in effect, the prime minister […]
Nov 24 2022 — Toronto Star — A lawyer for organizers of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” ran to confront a man outside of the Emergencies Act inquiry on Thursday whom he mistook for the person he has repeatedly accused — despite ardent denials and without providing evidence — of carrying a Nazi flag to last winter’s protests. The lawyer was also served […]
Nov 24 2022 — Toronto Star — Prime Minister’s Office officials say the former Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen told the prime minister there would be “significant concerns” to consider in meeting with convoy participants, a public inquiry heard Thursday. That statement contradicts Bergen’s recollection of a call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, she said in a statement sent to the Star. […]