No one appears able to stop Benjamin Netanyahu from uprooting one million people from Gaza City
With both the Israeli PM and the U.S. president ignoring public opinion, it’s time for a political leader in the West to tell Benjamin Netanyahu you can’t crush the rights of a million people without serious consequences. Canada should stand up.
Canada-U.S. parliamentary group has been without a Commons co-chair since election: ‘very concerning’
The Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group has built deep links in Congress, but the annual general meetings to select the executives for interparliamentary associations have been delayed until the fall.
Carney’s 15-per-cent challenge: cutting and rewiring Canada’s federal public service
Departments grapple with conflicting data as they race to finish the pivotal expenditure review the prime minister will use to reallocate resources.
A defence industrial policy is a good offence
Canada could revisit its industrial policy and consider a new defence, dual-use, industrial policy. This would take advantage of the government’s already-announced commitment to ramp defence spending up to five per cent of GDP over the next decade.
Billions spent, little delivered: we need results-based budgeting
Rather than chasing headlines or diplomatic distractions, we should focus on delivering value—exporting food, medicine, energy, and innovation to the world’s fastest-growing markets: China, India, and ASEAN. The demand is there.
Battle River—Crowfoot byelection parallels a defeated prime minister’s attempt to return to House nearly 100 years ago
But local reaction has been much different. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been widely criticized for being a parachute candidate, while Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King was welcomed to Saskatchewan riding after losing in Ontario.
The house that Robertson built: a look at the minister’s team to date
Mary-Liz Power is director of policy to Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, while Reeha Korpal leads work related to the minister’s Pacific Economic Development Canada file.
Poilievre expands his message playbook as party preps for Parliament’s return
The Conservative defeat last election brings a new opportunity to move beyond the risk-averse messaging of a campaign, and seize the political moment.
Pride attendance may no longer be a litmus test for LGBTQ support, but absence still sends a message, say politicos
‘Pride is not necessarily welcoming to everyone anymore, and that’s the opposite of what it should be,’ says conservative commentator and transgender advocate Blaine Badiuk.
‘Everybody loves a comeback’: Pollsters say Conservative Leader Poilievre needs to keep his focus forward, show what he’s learned
As Poilievre cruises to a likely uneventful victory in the upcoming Battle River–Crowfoot, Alta., byelection, Abacus Data’s David Coletto says his party faces an uphill battle in opposition so long as focus remains south of the border.
