Teen mental health advocate who penned letters to MPs will talk to Justin Trudeau
Teen mental health advocate Noah Irvine will speak with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday about implementing a mental health secretariat in the Prime Minister’s Office, a Sept. 25 press release from Mr. Irvine said. The Sept. 29 phone call is set to come a few days after the 17-year-old met with Health Minister Ginette Petitpas […]
Power & Politics in search of new host as Barton signs off
Rosemary Barton made her last appearance as host of Power & Politics on Sept. 8, two days after CBC created a job posting for her position on the CBC job board. “I was part of the original team that created this program nine years ago now,” Ms. Barton said during her last episode. Holding back […]
Journalists: dig into PM’s substance, go easy on the style
The Trudeaus are celebrities; that doesn’t always make them newsworthy. The explosion of online publishing, opinion-centred media, and political tribalism has provided plenty of fuel for those wishing to dismiss or deride journalists. In Canada, that derision often includes accusations that members of the press are left-leaning loyalists to Justin Trudeau and the governing Liberals. […]
Conservative MPs, Senators echo Scheer’s condemnation of The Rebel, but many stay silent
Conservative MPs and Senators have mostly echoed their party leader’s disavowal of The Rebel, but many have stayed silent in response to calls for Conservatives to publicly distance themselves from the far-right Canadian media company criticized most recently for its coverage of a deadly white supremacist rally south of the border. After Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, […]
Is the alt-right movement dead in Canada, or merely sleeping?
OTTAWA—The northward drift of the American alt-right may have been stopped in its tracks in the aftermath of Charlottesville last week. Or it may actually be energized by the post-Charlottesville fallout. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Thursday that he would no longer give interviews to self-stylized right-wing online presence, Rebel Media, after it provided positive […]
Conservatives were right to step back from The Rebel
It’s been a troublesome couple of years for many Conservatives, particularly moderates. Besides losing government to the Liberals in 2015, there’s been a flirtation by some in the party, and among those aligned with it, with intolerance. In the 2015 election, the party campaigned for things like preventing Muslim women from wearing full head scarves […]
Barton named one of four new hosts of CBC’s The National, promises to stay ‘tough’ in new gig
OTTAWA—CBC’s Power & Politics host Rosemary Barton has been named one of four new hosts of the public broadcaster’s nightly flagship newscast The National, leaving politicos wondering who will replace her as host of Power & Politics, something the public broadcaster says it will have more to say on “in the coming weeks.” Ms. Barton—who has […]
Dr. Hook was right about the cover of the Rolling Stone
OTTAWA—Dr. Hook put it best. You haven’t made it until you appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. So, just like the eponymous song said, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have purchased five copies of last week’s mag for his mother. One picture is always worth a thousand words. And the full-page photo of […]
Beware the Twitter echo chamber trap
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Whenever I’m plagued with self-doubt or afflicted with uncertainty, I turn to that one source guaranteed to provide me with the spiritual peace of mind I seek. It’s called Twitter. Yes, that particular social media outlet can always be relied upon to justify my points of view, to confirm my biases and to vindicate […]
Grit MP Fry suggests misinformation led to PM’s quick rule-out of broadband tax
Liberal MP and Canadian Heritage Committee Chair Hedy Fry has suggested that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t fully understand what the committee was recommending when he shot down the idea of new taxes on broadband distribution. That recommendation—to expand an existing five per cent levy on TV service providers, which gets put toward producing Canadian […]
