Sep 25 2023 — Sheila Copps — Hill Times — Protests and counter-protests on the rights of children to use their chosen pronouns were held across the country last week. New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh led a counter-protest in Ottawa, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to X (formerly Twitter) to condemn “hate and its manifestations,” and reiterate his support for the 2SLGBTQ+ community […]

Sep 25 2023 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — After the first week back in Parliament, it is obvious that all three leaders of the national parties have their work cut out for them. The prime minister has the most obvious problem. Justin Trudeau’s press these days reads like a savage review of a Broadway flop. Maybe he’s playing rope-a-dope with Conservative Leader Pierre […]

Sep 24 2023 — Michelle Rempel Garner — Substack — Over the summer, something remarkable happened. Women, across every voting demographic, started migrating their voting intention away from the Liberal government. But that trend shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that economic data from that period suggests that high interest rates and sustained high inflation – particularly in the cost of fuel and groceries – […]

Sep 24 2023 — David Coletto — Substack — I get to ask thousands of Canadians, hundreds of questions each week and I’ve been doing this for 13 years now at Abacus Data. At no point in that time have I seen the kind of shifts and surprising results in our surveys than I do today. Take for example the rapid shift in vote […]

Sep 24 2023 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister paid tribute to the 17th Prime Minister on this date in 2020 in the House of Commons. John Napier Turner, a cabinet minister under Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, who served as PM in 1984, had passed into history only a few days before. You can read Justin Trudeau’s tribute below. Arthur Milnes is […]

Sep 23 2023 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It was a tough-talking Sir Wilfrid Laurier who spoke to a gathering of the  Methodist General Conference being held in Ottawa on this date in 1914. The First World War had started a month previously with the German invasion of Belgium. Germany’s attach was in violation of the Treaty of London, which guaranteed the neutrality […]

Sep 24 2023 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — The problem for the Liberals these days is that they’re trapped in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s world and it’s imploding around them. An illustration of this is an interview Immigration Minister Marc Miller did last week with The Hill Times in which he called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a “charlatan”, “snake-oil salesman”, “classless jackass” and […]

Sep 22 2023 — Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Is there a way out of this India story or are the two sides just too entrenched in their positions? Chantal and Bruce have their thoughts on the story that has dominated the headlines all week. And Doug Ford — does saying you’re sorry clean up the Greenbelt mess?

Sep 23 2023 — Andrew Perez — Globe and Mail — In June, violent riots overtook more than a dozen French cities after a police officer shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a French teen of Algerian and Moroccan descent who had driven through a red light while escaping police. The reaction in Canada was as predictable as it was self-assured. Many commentators said the destructive events […]

Sep 23 2023 — Kelly Cryderman — Globe and Mail — Danielle Smith has always been on the side of Alberta going it alone with a provincial pension. What we didn’t know until this week is what a stunningly big chunk of the pie the Premier would seek in that separation from the Canada Pension Plan. The Alberta claim is so huge – Ms. Smith’s United […]

Sep 22 2023 — CBC — CBC — It was supposed to be a parliamentary sitting about affordability and public safety but quickly became about India and allegations of a politically motivated murder. How does this all influence the political pulse of the week?

Sep 22 2023 — Sushant Singh — The Walrus — ON JUNE 18, Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead as he left the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, at night. The forty-five-year-old was a prominent figure in the Sikh community in BC. He had moved to Canada from the Indian state of Punjab in 1997 and worked as a […]

Sep 22 2023 — Andrew MacDougall — Ottawa Citizen — As far as channel-changing gambits go, ginning up the murder of a Canadian citizen into an international conspiracy would be a bold one. Which is probably why Justin Trudeau isn’t lying about possible Indian government involvement in the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Sep 22 2023 — Heather Mallick — Toronto Star — Wednesday’s cross-Canada “gender ideology” protests and counterprotests about schools and sex education et al were something of a flop. That’s more of a compliment than an insult. Good: They were mostly peaceful, which is a triumph given that current gender quarrels are an American construct born of MAGA Republicans and thus about right vs. wrong […]

Sep 22 2023 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — A distinguished visitor arrived in Ottawa on this date in 2011 in the person of David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The highlight of his trip to Ottawa was the speech he delivered to a joint-session of Canada’s Parliament. “The relationship between Britain and Canada is deep and strong,” Cameron said. “At the Chateau […]