Apr 21 2018 — Meagan Campbell — Maclean's — On Friday night, at the Liberal Party national convention in Halifax, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau addressed a crowd of party members, following an introduction by MP Rodger Cuzner. For half an hour, speaking at times directly to her family seated before the stage, Grégoire Trudeau told personal stories and reinforced the importance of volunteers on the […]
Apr 21 2018 — Evan Dyer — CBC — The Official Opposition barely mentioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign travel this week. Instead, Conservatives mostly used question period to rehash the PM’s excursion to India two months ago, and the unforced errors that plagued it. So the Trudeau government succeeded at least in not giving its enemies any fresh ammunition — which surely came […]
Apr 21 2018 — Bill Curry — Globe and Mail — The federal government is shelving its in-depth study of airport privatization after nearly two years of examining the multibillion-dollar potential of selling off the key federal assets. During a private meeting with airport executives in Ottawa this week, Transport Minister Marc Garneau confirmed that the Liberal government is not moving ahead with privatization at this […]
Apr 21 2018 — CBC — Liberal Party members have short-listed their policy priorities, with universal pharmacare, decriminalizing drugs and the sex trade, and an underwater tunnel link to Newfoundland making the cut. Today is the final day of a three-day convention in Halifax, an unofficial kickoff to the 2019 election campaign focusing on policy making and energizing the troops. About […]
Apr 21 2018 — Globe and Mail — As the infighting over the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline heats up, the courts may ultimately do what the politicians in Alberta, B.C., Ottawa and − recently − Saskatchewan have been unable to do so far. Pending rulings could set the stage for killing or saving the $7.4-billion expansion of the 65-year-old link between Alberta and […]
Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian government will lead the first trade missions for women, Indigenous and LGBTQ businesses and entrepreneurs later this year, International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Saturday. The announcement was part of a speech promoting the Liberal government’s progressive trade agenda at the party’s national convention in Halifax. Champagne offered no details about the missions, […]
Apr 21 2018 — CBC — Re-election campaigns — like the one the Trudeau Liberals will embark on next year — hang on a government’s ability to convince voters that it still represents positive change, Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said Friday. But since electoral success seems more and more these days to depend on offering voters something other […]
Apr 21 2018 — Daniel Leblanc — Globe and Mail — The Liberal base is trying to push the party leftward at the national convention in Halifax, hoping to get its leadership to adopt a progressive platform that addresses issues such as pharmacare and the decriminalization of the sex trade and possession of small amounts of illegal drugs. The pressure is coming from inside the Liberal […]
Apr 21 2018 — The Canadian Press — The president of Canadarm-builder MDA says setting up the company’s parent firm in the United States won’t have any impact on jobs in Canada. In October 2017, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, based in Richmond, B.C., became Maxar Technologies Ltd. after it acquired DigitalGlobe, an American satellite imaging company. Maxar’s headquarters were in San Francisco before […]
Apr 21 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Friday he has experienced racial profiling first-hand in Canada, and he’s calling on his fellow Liberals to fight racism. Speaking to delegates at the party’s convention in Halifax, Hussen said that, when he was younger, police cars would screech to a halt in front of him when he was out […]
Apr 21 2018 — CTV News — B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver says Alberta and Saskatchewan’s threats to cut off oil and gas to his province are just tough talk and nothing more. “This is a lot of bluster — a big lot of bluster — and it’s just not helpful, to be blunt,” B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver told CTV’s […]
Apr 20 2018 — The Canadian Press — A senior campaign official for the Ontario Liberals is apologizing for a crude comment he made on live television about Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford. David Herle, campaign co-chair for Premier Kathleen Wynne, appeared on a panel discussion on Toronto TV station CP24 on Friday, where he compared Ford to his late brother, former Toronto […]
Apr 21 2018 — James Wood — Calgary Herald — A former Tory cabinet minister and a Wildrose stalwart are among four United Conservative Party MLAs who won’t run in next year’s provincial election.
Apr 20 2018 — CP24 — The Ontario PCs would win a strong majority if a provincial election was held today, and the NDP would form the Official Opposition, a new poll suggests. Forum Research found that 46 per cent of decided or leaning voters said on April 18 that they would support the Ontario PCs if a vote were held […]
Apr 20 2018 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she’s open to looking at decriminalizing small quantities of drugs and easing Canada’s prostitution laws — both progressive policies that are popular with youth delegates at the Liberal Party convention underway in Halifax. Wilson-Raybould said she has learned through discussions with stakeholders and sex workers that legalizing prostitution is a […]