Jun 18 2019 — Toronto Star — Canadian corporations failed to pay between $9.4 billion and $11.4 billion in taxes in 2014, according to the first comprehensive analysis of the country’s corporate “tax gap” — the difference between taxes legally owed and those collected — being released today by the Canada Revenue Agency. That means 24 to 29 per cent of all […]
Jun 18 2019 — Tonda MacCharles — Toronto Star — The federal Liberals will not legislate a national handgun ban, but will campaign next fall on allowing municipalities like Toronto to enact additional restrictions on handguns, says Bill Blair, the federal minister in charge of the file. Toronto got another sickening taste of gun violence Monday when four people were injured in a shooting during […]
Jun 16 2019 — Jaime Watt — Toronto Star — Two weeks ago, the Ontario Liberals began the long and arduous process of rebuilding their shattered party. Now reduced to a caucus of five — or what some impolite wags refer to as “the minivan caucus” — the party membership gathered in Mississauga to determine just how they will go about selecting a new leader […]
Jun 16 2019 — Robin V. Sears — Toronto Star — A few days ago, Lisa Raitt made a serious blunder. For no obvious reason, she decided to attack Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by saying there was no clear link between extreme weather and climate change. Thousands of angry tweets later she took down her provocative post. It’s not clear whether this will mean temporary damage […]
Jun 16 2019 — Penny Collenette — Toronto Star — Over six million Canadians tuned into the Raptors game on June 10. That game seems like a nightmare now, as it ended in one point heartbreak for the Raptors. Nevertheless, the pan Canadian audience was bonded by hope and tense with expectation. National unity does not get better than this. No one, except for the […]
Jun 14 2019 — Tonda MacCharles — Toronto Star — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Washington next week with a key aim: to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump it is in America’s own interests to stand up for the release of two Canadians jailed on security allegations in China. Trudeau travels to Washington Wednesday evening with a to-do list that includes nailing down the […]
Jun 14 2019 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — It was not for lack of being asked that Quebec premier François Legault declined to sign the letter five of his provincial counterparts and one territorial leader fired off at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week. The letter warned of an impending unity crisis should Trudeau proceed with two environment-related bills. It bore the signature […]
Jun 13 2019 — Toronto Star — Provincial MLA Lenore Zann says she’s vying for the Liberal party ticket in the fall federal election because she’s worried about the rise of right-wing politics in Canada. Zann has represented Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River at the Nova Scotia legislature as a New Democrat since 2009, but announced earlier this week that she was quitting the […]
Jun 13 2019 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — As Progressive Conservative MPPs privately complain to Premier Doug Ford about a “culture of fear” amid tongue lashings from his chief of staff, they are being urged to attend his annual “Ford Fest.” In an internal caucus email obtained by the Star, the premier’s office is reminding Tory members to come to the Markham fairgrounds […]
Jun 12 2019 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — If you liked Justin Trudeau’s promises to make pot legal in the 2015 election, wait until you see the free-drugs pledge in the 2019 campaign. Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s former health minister, has handed Trudeau and his Liberal team an unexpected flourish of ambition to insert into this fall’s election platform — a national, universal pharmacare […]
Jun 12 2019 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — In the wake of discouraging polls and unhappy with the rollout of the provincial budget, Premier Doug Ford is poised to shuffle his cabinet. The premier is expected to shake up his executive council after seven public-opinion surveys in the past month have highlighted problems for the Progressive Conservative government due to program cuts in […]
Jun 11 2019 — Robert Benzie — Toronto Star — The day after millions of Canadian basketball fans saw attack ads portraying Andrew Scheer as a puppet of Premier Doug Ford, the federal Conservative leader insists he is his “own” man. Federal Conservatives have told the Star they fear Ford’s declining popularity will hurt them in the Oct. 21 election, but in an exclusive interview, […]
Jun 11 2019 — Alex Boutilier — Toronto Star — Canadians are broadly dissatisfied with their options for prime minister in the lead up to October’s federal election, according to a new poll by Forum Research shared with the Toronto Star. The leaders of the three major political parties have a net disapproval rating, with just 34 per cent of respondents saying they approve of […]
Jun 10 2019 — Chantal Hébert — Toronto Star — After a week’s consideration, it seems Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not completely convinced after all that Canada’s treatment of its Indigenous peoples amounts to genocide. The latter was the main and most controversial finding of the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The prime minister had […]
Jun 10 2019 — Toronto Star — There’s a new excitement taking hold within Canada’s Green party as it sharpens its bold message with a full slate of candidates eyeing October’s federal election. A polling surge shows upwards of 10 per cent support nationwide and, perhaps more importantly, surveys suggest a substantially higher portion of Canada’s restless electorate — dispirited by hyperpartisanship […]