“One more,” Justin Trudeau’s communications director said.
She was letting me know my interview with the prime minister, in his office on the third floor of Parliament’s Centre Block, was about to end. […]
Canada would be seen as a “banana republic” if it scrapped a $15-billion deal to sell armed vehicles to Saudi Arabia, Justin Trudeau says.
“People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won’t immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it,” the prime minister said in an interview in his office in Parliament’s Centre Block. “Because we’re not a banana republic.” […]
by Tim Harper Wendy Robbins called it the elephant in the room and she was not going to give up […]
A federal conference will bring together perspectives on Lyme disease from key stakeholders, including patients’ groups, the medical community, government organizations, and individual Canadians. The conference was kicked off Monday by the Honourable Dr. Jane Philpott, Minister of Health and the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Dr. Gregory Taylor, and will inform the Federal Framework to address the disease. […]
If one had to describe the mode of Justin Trudeau’s government six months into its first mandate, it would be cruise control rather than full throttle.
Whether by design or by necessity the Liberals are dealing with a heavy policy agenda by pacing themselves. […]
The storm over the Liberal handling of a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia is a gift to an NDP caucus still reeling from the summary execution of its leader at the hands of party members.
It is also confirmation that fate does not always smile on politicians in a timely fashion. […]
By the time he stood at the podium to address the NDP convention Sunday morning, Thomas Mulcair must have known he was in deep and likely irreversible trouble.
It took little more than a minimum of political acumen to pick up the negative signals that preceded the vote on whether to seek a new leader. Mulcair did not lack for antennae in the corridors of the convention.
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NDP gives its leader the boot, plunging the party into its most divisive debate in decades – and he’s likely just the first casualty
The fix was in for outgoing NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair before the convention that led to Sunday’s vote even opened. […]
The Battle of Vimy Ridge 99th Anniversary Commemoration Parade was held Sunday afternoon at the Edmonton Garrison Lecture Training Facility. […]
As the New Democrats prepare to pronounce on Thomas Mulcair’s leadership, here is a prediction:
Regardless of how the NDP leader scores on a confidence vote Sunday, there will be little or no cause for celebration at the party’s gathering in Edmonton. […]
Former cabinet minister Kellie Leitch has become the first official candidate to replace Stephen Harper as Conservative leader, sounding the starting gun on a race that will stretch over 13 months. […]
If Thomas Mulcair were the leader of the Conservatives or Liberals, he would have cleaned out his office long ago.
But he leads the federal NDP. No pushing, please. We have a process. […]
When the former Conservative government agreed to hand over private banking information of Canadians to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the Liberals led the growing chorus of indignation.
Their opposition started meekly but strengthened. They tried to amend the law, which they portrayed as a loss of sovereignty and an unnecessary bow to American pressure. […]
Justin Trudeau is said to have hit on the idea of running deficits last July while brainstorming with aides just weeks before the election call.
The following month, in late August, he unveiled that plan and, according to Trudeau, that was the day he believed he won the election. […]
As the New Democrats ponder the future of their federal party and its leadership, here are a few inconvenient truths they might have to face up to.
1. Yes, the NDP lost the last federal campaign on a fiscal and social platform that the Liberals could have written. The key planks of yearly balanced budgets and a national child care program were lifted from outdated red books. It was a decidedly middle-of-the-road document. […]
OTTAWA-When Canada lost its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat to Portugal in 2010 it was widely seen as a humiliation, an embarrassment, the dagger through the heart of Stephen Harper’s foreign policy. […]
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