As food inflation hits 8.8 per cent, experts expect market volatility, continued high prices in fall
With food price inflation outpacing Canada’s annual inflation rate, experts say everything from high fuel and fertilizer costs, to labour shortages in manufacturing and transportation, to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine will continue to stoke market volatility and higher prices in the months to come. Conservative MP John Barlow (Foothills, Alta.), his party’s agriculture critic, […]
Canadian Greens concerned federal party establishment ‘disenfranchising’ potential new leaders and hurting its chances to grow
With just a little more than a week before the application deadline to run in the Green Party of Canada’s leadership election, strict bilingualism qualifications and fears the proposed leadership review process will only create further power struggles have party critics, former leadership contestants, and party organizers losing hope that the party actually wants to […]
Four years in, Canada-Saudi diplomatic impasse shows no signs of resolution, but trade continues
After a now-infamous tweet criticizing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record in 2018 led to the fracturing of relations between Ottawa and Riyadh, a Middle East expert and Canada’s last ambassador to Saudi Arabia say the diplomatic impasse isn’t likely to end anytime soon. With the rising tide of authoritarianism around the globe, the Liberal government […]
Committee hearing exposes rift within RCMP, but observer says political interference claims in mass shooting investigation a red herring
Recent testimony from current and former RCMP employees before the House Public Safety Committee has shed light on tensions between “downtown” command in Ottawa and senior RCMP leadership in Nova Scotia in the days after the April 2020 mass shooting that began in Portapique, N.S. But a veteran political observer says claims of political interference […]
‘A disastrous error’: Pope Francis issues apology to residential school survivors in Canada
The residential school system was “a disastrous error incompatible with the gospels of Jesus Christ,” said Pope Francis as part of a historic apology he issued on behalf of the Catholic Church on Monday to survivors of the residential school system in Canada. The Pope gave the apology at the site of the former Ermineskin […]
Conservative Party shuts off money transfers to Brown campaign without specifying why, claims Brown’s campaign manager Mykytyshyn
The Conservative Party has suspended money transfers to disqualified leadership candidate Patrick Brown’s campaign without specifying why, claims the Brown campaign, but a party spokesperson says it has explained the reason and won’t disclose it right now. According to the Conservative Party’s leadership election rules, money raised by leadership candidates first goes to the party […]
If Conservatives fail to win next federal election, party would split, say some Conservatives
If the Conservative Party fails to win the next federal election—its potential fourth loss under a fourth leader—the party would split up or would need a serious reworking, say some Conservatives. “I’m a member of the Conservative Party, a strong [member of] the Conservative Party, and I want the Conservative Party to win the next […]
Members of Black class action lawsuit call for feds to ‘come to the table with tangible actions’ after PM’s apology to No. 2 Construction Battalion
The apology comes in the midst of an ongoing, multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuit representing current and former Black federal public servants seeking long-term solutions to permanently address systemic racism and discrimination in the bureaucracy.
Calls to combat Islamophobia prominent in record-setting June for federal advocacy
Representatives of Canada’s Muslim population were on Parliament Hill in June calling on Ottawa to do more to combat Islamophobia during an advocacy event held on the anniversary of the fatal attack against an Ontario Muslim family. “That attack forever changed the way that Muslims view their relationships with Canada and the country as a […]
Del Duca, Schulte, Ferri considering run for Vaughan mayoral race
Former Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca, former federal Liberal cabinet minister Deborah Schulte, and incumbent deputy mayor of Vaughan Mario Ferri are each considering running for the city’s top job in the fall municipal election. “I have not decided yet, but I am certainly considering it,” said Schulte, in an interview with The Hill […]
