National Column: Treading water as the level is rising
by Chantal Hebert If you subscribe to the notion that governments are meant to walk their talk at budget time, […]
by Chantal Hebert If you subscribe to the notion that governments are meant to walk their talk at budget time, […]
For more than 20 years, a politician from Alberta has held the leading position on one side or the other in the House of Commons. That unbroken spell will come to a halt when the federal Conservatives pick a permanent successor to Stephen Harper in May. […]
To compare the leadership debates of the Conservatives and the New Democrats on the basis of the latter’s first all-candidates meeting is to engage in a study in contrast.
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Over his first 15 months as a rookie MP and Canada’s finance minister, Bill Morneau has mastered the art of the platitude. That could come in handy when he presents his second budget this month.
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Contrary to an increasingly popular Canadian belief, the Trump administration does not have a monopoly on so-called alternative facts. Nor did it invent the concept. […]
Alan DeSousa has been the mayor of Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough since it was created 15 years ago. Initially elected on the ticket of mayor Gerald Tremblay, he survived the corruption scandals that marked that era and was re-elected as part of Denis Coderre’s team in 2013. […]
Almost a year after the New Democrats made history of a kind by showing Thomas Mulcair the door, the party has finally corralled enough candidates to hold a proper leadership debate next month.
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Under the guise of the first large set of byelections since Justin Trudeau became prime minister, voters are about to turn a definitive corner on generational change on Parliament Hill.
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by Chantal Hebert The population of every province west of Ontario is growing at a faster rate than the national […]
by Chantal Hebert With Kevin O’Leary on stage, the Conservatives had their first chance to watch the full slate of […]
For more than a decade, Quebec has been the scene of a divisive and, so far, sterile debate as to what constitutes the reasonable accommodation of religious minorities by a secular state.
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Even as Canada’s leaders were addressing the House of Commons to express their solidarity with the country’s grieving Muslim community on Monday, the White House’s press secretary was arguing that the murderous attack on a Quebec City mosque was “a terrible reminder of why the president is taking steps to be proactive, not reactive” on national security. […]
Women in Parliament played key roles on both sides of the aisle this year
From leading the official Opposition to playing the lead role on files central to the government’s agenda, women finally made their way to centre ice in the federal arena this year, scoring or assisting on big goals for their parties. […]
Justin Trudeau would not be human if he had not wished the year-end news conference he gave on Monday on Parliament Hill to provide him – in the spirit of the upcoming holiday season – with an opportunity to celebrate the many missions he believes his government accomplished in 2016.
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by Chantal Hebert Consider this: The first federal-led attempt to put in place a pan-Canadian climate framework got off the […]
by Chantal Hebert If the federal Conservatives are looking for a leader liable to hold his or her own against […]
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