Trudeau and Scheer reduce Canada’s national politics to a game of legal chicken
HALIFAX—As Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer reduce Canada’s national politics to a game of legal chicken, a remarkable statement was made by the prime minister. In reference to the opposition leader’s alleged lies about the PM in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, this is what Trudeau had to say: “You can’t be lying to Canadians, and I think […]
Liberals’ base could be smaller than Conservatives’, poll suggests
The Liberal base of committed, core supporters may be smaller than the well from which the rival Conservative Party is drawing, a recent poll suggests, and the Grits also lag the Tories by a nose when soft support is accounted for. One quarter of adult Canadians who took part in the Campaign Research survey said […]
Gould eyes U.K.’s ‘duty of care’ proposal for regulating tech companies
PARLIAMENT HILL—Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould says she’s taken an interest in the U.K.’s recently proposed plans to hold social media platforms accountable to a code of practice, as Ottawa considers whether to pursue more regulations. “What we must avoid is to have laws, policies that are not flexible enough for the future,” Ms. Gould […]
Don’t overlook the ‘exhausted majority’ in political coverage, journalist says
Journalists can do more to appeal to the so-called “exhausted majority,” those who are ideologically flexible, amid this sense of increased political polarization, says a Toronto Star journalist. “It is an option to try to define issues in such a way that we can speak beyond the black and white of stories and find commonalities […]
Trudeau’s Liberal team drowning in a poop storm of their own making
OTTAWA—SNC-Lavalin seems to be kryptonite to the Liberal government’s ability to communicate reasonably and effectively. Everything the government touches related to this file always takes them two steps backwards and rarely forward. Witness their behaviour last week as they were trying to change the channel—something to date they have been brutally ineffective at doing. First, […]
‘We’re in ambition mode’: Champagne says infrastructure funding free from politics
Infrastructure funding is being being spent free from political considerations, says Infrastructure and Communities Minister François-Philippe Champagne, but his Conservative critic says money is going to where Liberals want votes in October. “I often say when you look at infrastructure, this is not about politics,” Mr. Champagne (Saint Maurice–Champlain, Que.) told The Hill Times on […]
Status of government bills
HOUSE OF COMMONS Second reading: C-5, An Act to Repeal Division 20 of Part 3 of the Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1 C-12, An Act to amend the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act C-27, An Act to amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 C-28, An Act to amend […]
Eighty years after Franco took power, Spain riled by re-emergence of far right
MALAGA, Spain—It was in this heavily populated, sun-drenched part of Spain east of Gibraltar that an ultra-conservative political party recently emerged on the national scene for the first time in four decades. Wins in several districts in a regional election in December by Vox gave it a role in the new coalition government in Andalusia, […]
Canadian peacekeepers haven’t faced any attacks in Mali, commanders say ‘we present a pretty credible deterrent’
Despite being a part of what’s known to be the United Nations’ most dangerous peacekeeping mission, the Canadian peacekeeping force in Mali has never been under hostile attack, say the mission’s former and current Canadian commanders. Nearly 200 peacekeepers have been killed since the campaign started in 2013, but Travis Morehen, a colonel in the […]
‘This is cultural genocide’: activists call on Liberals to act now to fix Indian Act sex discrimination
The government’s lack of action in the face of multiple calls to strip the remaining vestiges of sex discrimination from the Indian Act before the election is tantamount to cultural genocide, say Indigenous women and activists who descended on Parliament Hill April 9. But the Liberals won’t shift from existing timelines, which have a report […]
