Apr 24 2019 — Toronto Star — The Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed that a letter from Justin Trudeau circulating on social media, showing his support for a new and controversial non-profit promoting Tibetan reunification with China, is fake. The Tibetan Association of Canada held a large inauguration celebration in Toronto on April 20, attended by a number of local politicians. In […]
Apr 23 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — It was bold and controversial at the time, and remains so today. Critics were quick to pounce when the federal Liberals presented their big and expensive tax-and-transfer package of the 2015 election campaign as an experimental remedy to income inequality and the populism it often spawns, They said the tax elements of the package — […]
Apr 22 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Elizabeth May’s marriage on Monday may be the start of an extended political honeymoon for her Green Party — starting in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday and quite possibly in Canada at large later this year. All signs currently point to this being a very good week for May and the Greens, part of a […]
Apr 21 2019 — Tiffany Gooch — Toronto Star — There were six women sitting at the table as first ministers when Ontario hosted the summer meeting of the Council of the Federation in 2013, steering the way forward on Canada’s biggest immediate and long-term challenges. Today, there are none.
Apr 21 2019 — Jaime Watt — Toronto Star — Just as it is for most people who do what I do for a living, our office is littered with television monitors tuned to a variety of news channels from around the world. And like it is for most of us, we become inured to the onslaught of images that come our way. Some real. […]
Apr 21 2019 — Robin V. Sears — Toronto Star — The wealthy are expert at hanging on to their wealth, often through concealing its existence in tax shelters, offshore, and in private corporations. It’s part of the reason our wealth inequality is now growing very fast. The Trudeau government is fond of bragging about how much its tax changes have done to bring tax fairness […]
Apr 20 2019 — Tonda MacCharles — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau is framing the next election in stark terms. The prime minister told Liberal volunteers and supporters last week the Oct. 21 vote will be “about what kind of country we want to live in, and who we want to be.”
Apr 18 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — It was a joke that only his father’s old friends would really get. Popping in for a surprise visit with veterans of Pierre Trudeau’s government at a lunch this week in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau said he had come up with the campaign slogan for the election later this year.
Apr 18 2019 — Toronto Star — Rubab Qureshi stood in the House of Commons this month and asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau how Canada plans to combat the rise of white nationalism and Islamophobia. That is, beyond words of condemnation. Qureshi was taking part in Daughters of the Vote, an event meant to encourage young women to become more politically active. […]
Apr 17 2019 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — And then there were none. As of the victory on Tuesday of Alberta’s United Conservatives, Canada’s first ministers’ club is once again male-only. Of the quartet of female premiers who led Canada’s largest provinces as recently as five years ago, not a single member is left at the table.
Apr 16 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau isn’t looking for a new Gerald Butts. It’s been two months this week since the SNC-Lavalin controversy claimed Trudeau’s right-hand man, and the Prime Minister’s Office is confirming that no new principal secretary will be coming in soon to replace Butts.
Apr 16 2019 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — Premier Doug Ford’s government has fired the opening salvo in its advertising blitz against Ottawa’s controversial new carbon-pricing scheme. As first disclosed by the Star, Queen’s Park is launching a taxpayer-funded campaign on television and radio, in print and on social media targeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan.
Apr 16 2019 — Heather Scoffield — Toronto Star — A month ago, tens of thousands of Quebec students inspired by a Swedish teenage activist abruptly left their schools and spilled into city streets across the province to demand action on climate change and place blame on their parents’ generation for neglect. It’s not just students on a tear.
Apr 15 2019 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — Of the premiers of the four larger provinces who signed off on Justin Trudeau’s climate-change framework three year ago, only Rachel Notley is left. That makes her the second most prominent Canadian political leader — after the prime minister — to support the notion that it is desirable to strike a balance between pipeline building […]
Apr 15 2019 — Bruce Campion-Smith — Toronto Star — In an Ottawa courthouse, where daily law-and-order dramas play out before judges, one court proceeding now underway could land on Justin Trudeau’s doorstep just as Canadians get ready to go to the polls. At the centre of the case is Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, a top-ranking officer charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking confidential […]