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Mere hours after the Orlando mass shooting it was already clear that its political fallout in the United States would be both divisive and significant. The tragedy is inflaming an already polarized presidential contest. It may yet turn out to be a watershed moment in the campaign. […]
Those beautiful yellow blooms that brighten our meadows, pastures, ditches and lawns are really very pretty at the height of their season before those white puffs of seed raise their heads. If they weren’t so hard to remove from gardens, lawns, flowerbeds and even sidewalk cracks they could be appreciated for their fleeting spring beauty and then forgotten. However, we hoe them off, dig them out and even spray them in our lawns, hazarding our own health, our pet’s and the neighbours. […]
“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. […]
Been two weeks in a row now that I’ve got an email from the owner of this rag asking me to get my thoughts together on account of he’s going to need them for the paper. I told him he’d have to pay me double on account of it being Seniors’ Week when he asked me to write this, and I didn’t want to interrupt the festivities. […]
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.” […]
PM busy rebuilding relationships by Paul Wells The federal government plans “big announcements in coming weeks,” in Toronto and elsewhere, […]
Justin Trudeau was eight minutes late for our interview on Monday, which was no hardship, since we’d budgeted a comfortable 40 minutes and I was waiting in the cosy confines of his own office on the third floor of Parliament’s Centre Block. Framed photo of his dad in the corner, under a contemporary caricature of Wilfrid Laurier. Medallion in the shape of the Montreal Canadiens logo hanging from the bookshelf in the opposite corner. […]
As the Supreme Court’s deadline for assisted-dying legislation passed with no new law in place, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rejected claims his proposed law doesn’t go nearly far enough. […]
The time-sensitive production of a Charter-compliant federal law on medically assisted death was always going to be a logistical challenge for whomever was elected to power last October.
On that basis, the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government missed Monday’s court-imposed deadline to prevent a legal void is probably the least unexpected development in the legislative saga that has consumed MPs and senators over the first session of the new Parliament. […]
The federal New Democrats who showed Thomas Mulcair the door last April must have had various dream candidates in mind to replace him.
Almost two months later, most of those presumed successors have vanished into thin air. […]
Since the owner of this rag decided to go off to a political convention for a week, he told me I’d better put together some of my great wisdom for the paper. Now that the good weather is here, I ain’t felt much like writing my thoughts down on account of I’m enjoying tinkering with the old car and figuring new ways to keep the cats out of the missus’ garden so I don’t go to listen to her hollering about the neighbourhood cats going poo in the pansies. […]
by Thomas Walkom A Conservative senator wants to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals. That should be an […]
Much of the assisted-dying debate has focused on whether enough people in pain will be able to end their lives. In legal terms this is a good question. Why should some be denied their constitutional right to death? […]
PM’s campaign pledge to end first-past-the-post system likely to get more complicated
The Liberals will abandon their plans to overhaul Canada’s electoral system if they don’t have widespread public support, Minister Maryam Monsef says. […]
Last week’s G7 meeting in Japan was an opportunity missed.
The leaders of seven important countries, including Canada, had a chance to do something that would rekindle the sputtering global economy. Some, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canada’s Justin Trudeau, tried to convince the group to do just that. […]
There was never any doubt, of course, that this had become Justin Trudeau’s party. But had there been any remaining question of that anywhere in the land, it was removed as the prime minister tightened that grip on the Liberal party here Saturday. […]
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