Emma Paling

1 week ago | readthemaple.com | Emma Paling

In key regions where Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives made gains in last month’s election, voters face higher-than-average increases in housing costs, a growing homelessness crisis and the threat of tariff-induced mass unemployment. Voters in Kitchener and Windsor, Ont. chose change, even if that meant booting out beloved incumbent MPs, including one who had represented his community for 23 years.

4 weeks ago | readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Alex Cosh |Davide Mastracci

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is getting an easier ride at media events during the current election than Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney, an analysis by The Maple finds. The data shows that despite Poilievre’s constant complaints that the media go easy on his Liberal opponents, the opposite is true in this election campaign.

1 month ago | westendphoenix.com | Emma Paling

FROM APRIL/MAY 2024 ISSUE OF WEST END PHOENIXPrivate equity firms are targeting low-income apartment buildings across the city as the ultimate investment: buying them out, evicting tenants and renovating the empty units. The new rents, subject to increases without controls, are so high that they’re sending some residents to the food bank Michael Cuadra has lived with his parents in the same Weston apartment building since he was eight years old. For much of that time, it was a good place to live.

1 month ago | readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Emma Paling |Alex Cosh

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is a Zionist lobby group that has a stated priority of “strengthening the Canada-Israel Friendship.” It has aimed to do so in several ways, including lobbying MPs and taking them on fully paid trips to Israel. I’ve published several articles on CIJA’s activities since 2022, including a list of the 10 MPs most lobbied by CIJA and a breakdown of MPs CIJA has taken to Israel.

1 month ago | readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Alex Cosh |Peter McFarlane

It might sound hard to believe, but a London-based bookie had a hand in sparking Canadian media’s early fascination with Prime Minister Mark Carney. The year was 2011, and the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had just resigned after being charged with attempted rape in the United States. The London bookie, William Hill, took bets on his successor and included Carney on the list of possible candidates. The odds were long, ten to one.