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. […]
Welcome to the era of deficits and dreams.
Some of the dreams are deferred, but the deficits seem cast in stone. […]
Federal Conservatives have moved with astonishing speed and depth in their repudiation of the Stephen Harper years.
Some senior members of the party now talk of the need for carbon pricing. They back the Liberal inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. They talk of a national anti-poverty strategy, speak in more centrist tones and are showing Canadians a softer, more appealing style with Rona Ambrose as interim leader. […]
She died young and alone, never knowing justice.
That would come posthumously, 63 years after a simple gesture of defiance and courage helped change
this country. Yet her story remains little known. […]
We want to be liked; we want to be appreciated, but most of all we want to be noticed.
Sometimes we crave it so much we appear a little bit needy. In reality, though, it is not needy, it is necessary. […]
Justin Trudeau is about to be the man of the moment in Washington.
But official Washington’s attention span is notoriously fickle and the prime minister’s challenge will be to parlay the South Lawn pomp and the red carpet into enduring Canadian influence after Barack Obama leaves the White House.
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When Canada’s premiers sit around the table with the prime minister, the elephants will always find a way to squeeze into the room.
Maybe because it has been so long, we’d simply forgotten.
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A joint committee dealing with the most emotional of issues to come before this Parliament has boldly opened the door to assisted dying for adolescents and children in this country. […]
It was merely a matter of time before someone in Justin Trudeau’s picture-perfect, properly balanced cabinet – a collection of the celebrated, the cerebral and the politically untested – was going to have to show their mettle with their finger stuck in a light socket. […]
by Tim Harper As the Stephen Harper years piled one onto another, debate grew in the capital over how much […]
Before Justin Trudeau arrived to rebuild the foundation, the Liberal house was sagging badly and threatening to collapse.
It remained standing because Bob Rae held it together. […]
Meet the most important MP you may not have heard of, the co-chair of the most important Parliamentary committee no one seems to be noticing. […]
When he landed in Alberta for two days of meetings this week, Justin Trudeau had a number of options.
I suppose he could have charismatically willed the price of oil back up to $100 per barrel. […]
“It’s time to take our country back,” says Donald Trump.
“Canada is back,” claims Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. […]
Justin Trudeau makes his most important domestic trip in his short life as prime minister this week when he heads to Alberta.
Prime ministerial visits are usually of the in-and-out variety. Trudeau will spend two days in Edmonton and Calgary, meeting with the oil industry and those providing social services in the province, then sit down with Premier Rachel Notley. […]
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