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Trudeau’s only mistake in admitting a mistake is not doing it sooner

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd after taking part in a fireside chat with Michael Scheldrick, co-founder and Chief Policy, Impact and...

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A textbook case of a system set up for waste and abuse

Travellers use their phones as they line up at the Ottawa International Airport on Dec. 23, 2022. The scandal around the ArriveCan app, which was used...

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Stuck in the middle, and risking union support

Cranes sit idle at the Port of Montreal on Nov. 12. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon had to do something to stop...

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Sprinkle a little notwithstanding on every governing headache

Ewan Sauve, right, press attache, walks along as Quebec Premier Francois Legault walks to a news conference prior to question period at the...

08.11.2024 5

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Same Trump. Different Canada. Different world

Donald Trump smiles at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, on Nov. 6, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Evan Vucci/The...

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Parliament has no motivation to make the process of government work

A Canada flag is backlit atop the East Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 31. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Just before lunchtime on...

01.11.2024 10

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Trudeau seeks to dodge the verdict of his own party

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period, in Ottawa, on Oct. 29. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press It’s obvious why Justin Trudeau...

30.10.2024 20

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Conservative housing proposal puts Liberals on the back foot

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 28. PATRICK DOYLE/The Canadian Press The Conservatives promised...

29.10.2024 6

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The day Justin Trudeau (sort of) admitted a mistake on immigration

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 24 Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press For a moment,...

25.10.2024 6

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Liberals limp out of confrontation without closure

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., on Oct. 23. Patrick Doyle/Reuters Is the Liberal...

24.10.2024 10

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Now it’s Poilievre facing the fire on foreign interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Oct. 21. Sean...

23.10.2024 30

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MPs try to tell Justin Trudeau his personal magic has become a toxic touch

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears as a witness at the federal inquiry into foreign interference in Ottawa on Oct. 16. Some of the Prime...

21.10.2024 40

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Trudeau came to the foreign-interference inquiry to hurl a grenade at his opponent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa on Oct. 16. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press ...

17.10.2024 9

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From the start, India’s expelled high commissioner came to talk tough with Ottawa

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to participate in the Intergovernmental Leaders Forum in Ottawa on May 8, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian...

16.10.2024 6

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Marc Miller and a mea culpa makes a rare success

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller speaks during a news conference, Sept. 18. By capping the number of new international...

14.10.2024 10

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Bill Blair doesn’t know what happened in his office, and he’s fine with that

Minister of National Defence Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet in Ottawa, on Oct. 7. Justin Tang/The...

12.10.2024 6

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Former Liberal aide’s testimony on 54-day delay for CSIS warrant leaves a blank space

Zita Astravas, former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Public Safety, arrives to appear as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa...

10.10.2024 3

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What happened in Bill Blair’s office during unexplained 54-day gap?

Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet in Ottawa on Oct. 7. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press Things went...

09.10.2024 7

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Poilievre moving down a sliding scale toward admitting he’ll cut some Liberal social programs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 2. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Nine months ago, Conservative...

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Brighter signs on affordability just as Liberals run out of time

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal fundraiser in Mississauga, Ont. on Sept. 27. Affordability concerns have been clobbering Trudeau’s...

30.09.2024 20

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Trudeau and Macron, both challenged at home, set for talks about a rough world

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the press as he arrives for the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations...

25.09.2024 10

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Everyone is running against Trudeau except Liberals who are running away

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises to speak during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 18. Blair Gable/Reuters New Brunswick...

23.09.2024 10

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The Bloc kills election suspense to play its deal

Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet speaks to journalists in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 18. Blair...

19.09.2024 10

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For Trudeau, the message from the by-election results is not about change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 17. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press There was, almost in passing, an...

18.09.2024 5

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An unstable Parliament where the issue is Justin Trudeau

There were two sides to the speech Pierre Poilievre gave in front Conservative caucus on Sunday, one in each official language. For the first 11...

16.09.2024 10

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Justin Trudeau says he’s staying, but his government acts like time is almost up

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal Party fundraiser event in Halifax on Aug. 27. Trudeau will face a fretful and strained caucus in...

09.09.2024 20

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Jagmeet Singh opens the Jack Layton playbook for a longshot election gamble

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh gives remarks during a press conference, in Toronto on Sept. 5. Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press Jagmeet Singh’s...

06.09.2024 4

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The Liberals now face unpredictable jeopardy after NDP withdraws from alliance

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh take part in the federal election English-language Leaders debate in Gatineau, Que.,...

05.09.2024 6

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MPs call an ArriveCan witness and forget the key question

There was a burning question for Diane Daly, a civil servant who worked on the ArriveCan app project. But when she appeared before a Commons committee...

09.08.2024 4

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Kill a fallacy to save immigration

What is immigration for? Canada seems to be confused by that question. Right now, the country’s immigration system is digging out of a hole created...

05.08.2024 20

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Ottawa has to do something about immigration boom, but it doesn’t have any good options

Let’s look at the conundrum Marc Miller faces. The Immigration Minister must choose between bad policy and disaster. Mr. Miller announced in March...

01.08.2024 10

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Pierre Poilievre takes real ideas about the drug crisis and wraps them in nonsense

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to the media during a press conference in Montreal on July 12. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian...

30.07.2024 10

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The new candidate still has Biden’s big incumbent problem

U.S. Vice-President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at West Allis Central High School during her first campaign rally in...

24.07.2024 10

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The Trudeau Show is on summer hiatus

Minister of Labour and Seniors Steven MacKinnon participates in a media availability after a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on...

22.07.2024 10

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Trump’s America wouldn’t be interested in U.S. allies

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump shakes hands with vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance during the Republican...

19.07.2024 10

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Searching for someone to whisper in a leader’s ear

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Joe Biden stand together on the first day of the...

17.07.2024 10

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A cunning plan to leave the Finance Minister dangling by a thread

Sources told the Globe and Mail this week that the PMO is concerned Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is an ineffective communicator for the...

12.07.2024 4

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Doug Ford’s hierarchy of needs starts with beer first

Doug Ford was right on top of it. After only a weekend of Ontario’s liquor-board strike, he had made a video pointing folks to stores where they...

10.07.2024 7

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When Liberals talk about Poilievre, Trudeau drowns out the sound

A year ago, the Liberal plan to fight the 2025 election was based on making Canadians fear Pierre Poilievre. Now, they can’t even get a large...

08.07.2024 20

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When Liberals talks about Poilievre, Trudeau drowns out the sound

A year ago, the Liberal plan to fight the 2025 election was based on making Canadians fear Pierre Poilievre. Now, they can’t even get a large...

08.07.2024 10

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Trudeau dodges a list of leadership questions and leaves the biggest one hanging

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Montreal on July 3. ANDREJ IVANOV/Getty Images Justin Trudeau looked like a million...

04.07.2024 10

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Justin Trudeau’s leadership troubles aren’t going away

This is a period of Liberal reflection, we are now told by Justin Trudeau himself. That is naturally needed to digest his party’s gut-punch...

02.07.2024 20

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The Trudeau switch has been flicked for Liberals

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses for photos with community members at an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tsilhqot’in First...

28.06.2024 4

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For Justin Trudeau, everything new is the same old again

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after attending an announcement in Vancouver, on June 25. Chris Helgren/Reuters Eleven months ago,...

26.06.2024 5

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Despite softer tone, Elizabeth May agrees with Jagmeet Singh’s searing assessment of secret foreign interference report

Green Party leader Elizabeth May and MP for Kitchener Centre Mike Morrice arrive for a news conference, in Ottawa, on June 11. Adrian Wyld/The...

15.06.2024 10

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Singh says the Trudeau and Poilievre tolerate foreign interference

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to journalists before Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Feb. 26. Blair...

14.06.2024 10

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Elizabeth May sees no traitors around her, and at least she read the report

Green Party MP Mike Morrice looks on as leader Elizabeth May speaks while holding up a copy of a public security report during a news conference, in...

12.06.2024 10

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Even the spies think the rush to name foreign interference collaborators is rash

Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, speaks in response to three performance audit...

10.06.2024 10

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‘Witting’ involvement changes the nature of foreign interference

Witting. That’s the word in the latest report on foreign interference that changes things. In the latest review, we don’t just see cases of...

04.06.2024 20

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Missing cheers for a pipeline that’s delivering on the bargain

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