New year, old problems for Trudeau
If you are the prime minister, what you do is viewed from many different lenses, some of them highly partisan and critical.
MPs look to legislate progress on TRC calls to action, harsher sentences for assaulting health-care workers
Conservative MP Ben Lobb’s Bill C-234 will be among the first items on the House’s private members’ business agenda after being controversially amended by the Senate in December.
Catching up with Fisheries Minister Lebouthillier’s team
Paul Carrigan, a former general manager for the Port of Sydney Development Corporation in Nova Scotia, is now a special adviser to Minister Lebouthillier.
As 10 Grit MPs decide not to run again, more expected to bow out ahead of likely ‘most difficult election for Liberals since 2015’
So far, 14 incumbent MPs have decided not to re-offer. The number will probably rise in the coming months as an election nears. ‘This will be the most difficult election for a Liberal and any Liberal federally since before 2015, and it’s a combination of factors,’ says pollster Nik Nanos.
Biden should stop financing an unconscionable war
The nightmare scenario—an all-out regional conflict involving Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and potentially Iran on one side, with Israel and the U.S. on the other—is no longer a long shot.
For something completely different: a little good news
Despite the threat of a reversal of our halting progress on climate, reconciliation and social equity under a future Conservative government, continuing worry about the rising cost of everything—and the upsetting prospect of an end to snow—there are sprigs of hope.
Arseneault right to push on oath of office
Liberal MP René Arseneault’s private member’s bill has been criticized by monarchists and embraced by Canada’s republicans, but Arseneault is right to push, at the very least, for a conversation on this. Charles III’s ascension to the throne upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 merits reflecting on the role of the Crown in modern Canadian society.
Self-described ‘Iron Man’ of Canadian politics, Chrétien turns 90, and politicos near and far wish him well
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien, who led the country from 1993-2003 winning three consecutive majority governments, will celebrate his 90 birthday on Jan. 11, and the ‘Little Guy from Shawinigan’ is still at it. Former prime ministers, premiers, and political leaders, meanwhile, are wishing the straight-talking Chrétien well.
Hutchings to take part in talk on energy, emissions, and the economy in Atlantic Canada on Jan. 18
MONDAY, JAN. 8 House Not Sitting—The House is adjourned for the year and is scheduled to return again on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. It’s scheduled to sit for a total of 121 days in 2024. It will sit Jan. 29-Feb. 17, and will break for two weeks (Feb. 20-March 3). It returns for one week […]
Here’s to better decision-making in the new year: William Perry
Problems are problems only because they are situations that we are struggling to solve. Although many of us look for the good, much today appears broken. In my experience, the most common ways we get stuck solving problems include not possessing the skills to do what we want; being afraid of making a wrong decision; and […]
