‘Nothing revolutionary’: $3M government ad leans on campaign comms after loosening partisan prohibitions
Trudeau-era limits for government ads were scrapped last year alongside the launch of a multimillion-dollar campaign drawing on the Grits’ 2025 ‘Build Strong’ election slogans.
Interpreter dilemma: pushback continues against changes to federal exam, freelance contract terms
As of last March, 84 freelance interpreters were covering Parliament Hill. Only 37 such bids were received by the first deadline for submissions under its new standing offer.
How to foil Trump’s annexation of Greenland
NATO leaders should immediately offer the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland permanent membership in the alliance.
As Carney engages China, beware the bogeyman tropes
The threat of Chinese foreign interference is exaggerated and used as a scare tactic to resist better relations with Beijing.
China trip a ‘test’ for Carney, with EV tariffs the ‘elephant in the room,’ say former envoys
Canada should be ‘very careful’ about dropping its 100-per-cent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for Beijing removing its tariffs on Canadian canola, says former diplomat Stewart Beck.
Federal environmental impact assessments are in even more jeopardy
The federal environment assessment tool was always limited, with powerful enemies fighting back well before the Carney government wanted to curtail its usage.
Catching up with more former cabinet staffers
Former chief of staff Matthew Mann is now working for PepsiCo, while ex-policy adviser Emily Hartman is working for YMCA Canada.
‘A grain of salt’: unmasking Liberal floor-crossing talks carries potential risk for opposition MPs, say politicos
Although these kinds of revelations never tell the whole story, MPs are demonstrating they are open to being approached. But it also puts pressure back on opposition leaders who now know their MPs aren’t happy, say former strategists.
Anyone else tired of watching Donald Trump, and thinking, ‘gawd, I miss Dick Cheney’?
It’s all so venal and terrifying. So much so, we are reduced to making declarations out of statements that should be a priori in nature, but may very well be the overwhelming foreign policy debate of 2026.
Maduro’s arrest has put the world on edge
If you parse Marco Rubio’s statement from last weekend, anyone who is even a competitor of the U.S. in our hemisphere is a potential target of American foreign policy attention. No wonder Prime Minister Mark Carney has muted his comments on the Nicolás Maduro takedown. We could be next.
