erin o'toole

4 min read 2021-12-14 00:45:04

Opposition pressing Liberals to address inflation ahead of fiscal update

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4 min read 2021-12-08 01:35:57

Après Justin, qui? In Maclean’s, Paul Wells observes a new subject in Liberal Ottawa—people are suddenly discussing a future after the current

5 min read 2021-12-07 01:10:08

Stuck in Africa: New federal travel rules have stranded some Canadians in southern Africa and forced others to fly to war-torn Ethiopia on their way

4 min read 2021-12-03 22:28:29

The first session of the 44th Parliament (finally) began last week, almost two months after September’s general election. While voting intentions

8 min read 2021-12-01 18:00:06

By Bruce Anderson & David Coletto We completed a national survey of 2,025 Canadian adults from November 25 to 30, 2021. Here’s a snapshot of

1 min read 2021-11-26 17:35:23

With a vote of 180 to 140, hybrid sittings will be returning to the House of Commons, which is bullshit and absolutely unconscionable, but the

1 min read 2021-11-25 05:08:16

And we’re back, after some nearly five months away, and to a full Chamber at that. Let’s hope it stays that way. Erin O’Toole led off,

1 min read 2021-11-24 17:31:21

In amidst all of the pomp and ceremony, there was very little that was unexpected out of yesterday’s Speech from the Throne, where Governor General

1 min read 2021-11-23 17:36:13

The 44th Parliament has been summoned, and nearly all MPs were back in the House of Commons yesterday – the exceptions being the one Conservative

1 min read 2021-11-22 21:54:09

The Liberals are threatening a showdown today as Parliament sits for the first time since the election amid uncertainty about the vaccine status of

1 min read 2021-11-22 17:37:44

There was sad news over the weekend that Senator Josée Forest-Niesing passed away from COVID. Forest-Niesing had been recently discharged from

1 min read 2021-11-20 17:41:37

I generally make it a policy not to talk about polls, but this one was just so disheartening that I feel the need to say something about it. Abacus

1 min read 2021-11-19 17:36:27

Well, that was the Three Amigos summit, and it doesn’t sound like there was any outward progress on Canada’s biggest request, which is getting

1 min read 2021-11-18 17:38:09

Inflation was the word of the day again yesterday, as it was the monthly release of Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index, and lo, it was once

1 min read 2021-11-18 00:34:13

So, as I was flipping through the day’s news to write up this newsletter, I read my colleague Paul Wells’s column about how Erin O’Toole has