Conservative party should worry it’s attracting more than its share of haters
MONTREAL—While scores of Canadians were spending the summer smugly lamenting the ugly tone of the American presidential campaign, Canada’s Conservative party was allowing calls for the assassination of Justin Trudeau to be posted on its Facebook page. Don’t abandon this column to see for yourself. After The Walrus documented the posts, the party cleaned up […]
Little Liberals everywhere as two MPs have babies
There seems to be somewhat of a Liberal baby boom happening, with at least two Liberal MPs (that we know of) bringing new people into the world in recent days. Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith became a father for the first time last week as his wife Amy Symington gave birth to Mackinlay Erskine Symington-Smith. The […]
Final Hip show attracts high-profile attendees; ex-journo, NDP hopeful heads to Twitter
While his cabinet colleagues were milling around university dorms in Sudbury, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) spent Saturday night hundreds of kilometres away, enjoying likely the last concert of arguably Canada’s greatest rock band. The Tragically Hip closed out its Man Machine Poem tour on Saturday night in front of a raucous hometown crowd in Kingston. The […]
Bill Rodgers remembered: ‘It was 1978 and to six-year-old me, he was a star.’
It was show and tell day. As my friends clutched their favourite Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks, I held a business card in my hand, adorned with the colourful Channel 9 logo. Dad had just been hired as a reporter at CFTO-CTV in Toronto, transitioning from radio to what would become a 21-year career in television […]
Harper’s parting patronage clouds eastern pipeline debate
MONTREAL—In the dying days of his government, Stephen Harper went to considerable lengths to ensure that the National Energy Board panel tasked with vetting the controversial Energy East pipeline be made up of commissioners hand-picked by the Conservatives—regardless of the election outcome. In the months prior to the election call, Harper reappointed to various boards […]
Trade, jobs, economic growth, income equality: is the budget working?
OTTAWA—On Friday, Aug. 5, Statistics Canada released numbers for both jobs and international trade. Both numbers were discouraging and continued a trend of poor economic data. The top line job numbers were a loss of 31,200, but the most disturbing underlying number was that 71,400 full-time jobs were lost while the major gain came in […]
Canada’s unwritten constitutional conventions need to be written down, says GG
Gov. Gen. David Johnston says many of Canada’s unwritten constitutional conventions should be written down, giving Democracy Watch a valuable ally in its long-running campaign to force the federal government to establish written rules that restrict prime ministerial powers, ranging from calling an election to proroguing Parliament. “I think we do well by attempting to write more […]
Should the media publish photos of terrorists?
Media have one important job to do: report the news. Sometimes they also bring in people to help us understand the news and speculate on what it means. At times, outside experts contribute much-needed analysis and insight, and at others they provide little of value to the issue at hand. In reporting the news there […]
Prime minister takes in Vancouver Pride after Kelowna vacation, Jane Taber leaves the Globe for PR
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family walked in the Vancouver Pride Parade on Sunday but only after enjoying a vacation in the province’s Okanagan region. Mr. Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) and his family arrived in Kelowna on Thursday and soaked up the sun in the popular tourist spot until leaving for Vancouver on Sunday, reported […]
Get off Twitter, go and actually do something
TORONTO—Ah, the Twitter warriors. Sirius XM’s Charles Adler first drew it to my attention, on his popular satellite radio program. An octogenarian Roman Catholic priest was slaughtered by ISIS subhumans in France, his throat slit at the altar. Charles read out the Twitter response of Stéphane Dion, our minister of Foreign Affairs: “Saddened to hear of […]
