A rundown of Innovation Minister Champagne’s 19-member ministerial team
Champagne’s office includes Boyan Gerasimov as director of policy, and Thi Tran as director of parliamentary affairs and issues management.
Maintaining relationship with NDP of ‘utmost importance’ as struggling Liberals prep fall economic statement, say observers
‘The government’s numbers—even when they’ve got good things to say—don’t seem to really benefit from what they’re saying or doing,’ said pollster Darrell Bricker.
Senators float scrapping regional offices
Senators have been able to open a regional office—akin to an MP’s constituency office—for more than a decade. Currently, only four such offices exist.
Liberals look to press committee colleagues on Alberta’s pension proposal
After two unsuccessful attempts were met with a filibuster, Liberal MPs say a Finance Committee motion to celebrate the CPP will return.
Still losing the war on climate change all these years later
The likelihood of the carbon tax becoming a game-changing problem for the government was advanced by the prime minister’s failure to effectively explain to Canadians how it works.
With deep divisions on Israel-Hamas war, could foreign policy become a ballot-box issue?
‘I think foreign policy will be a bigger issue in this election than it has been in the last several elections,’ says pollster Frank Graves.
Marc Garneau would have been the right PM for these times
If the former Liberal MP had a brand, it was ‘consistency’—which Canada could use right now.
Liberal pandering hasn’t opened Pandora’s box of voter support
According to a recent Abacus Data poll, only 13 per cent of respondents said the policy changes on carbon pricing will make them more likely to vote Liberal.
NDP-backed petition on trans rights surges as Tory Leader Poilievre strikes out at ‘Trudeau’s radical gender ideology’
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah says advocates and organizations serving Canada’s trans and gender-diverse community fear their hard-won progress could all be lost with a change in government without sustained funding beyond the next election cycle.
The revolution will not be televised—it will be on TikTok
TikTok is the place for youth, for racialized communities, to speak on issues that are routinely left on the cutting-room floor by narrow-minded mainstream media editors.
