Judy Trinh

Ottawa

National Correspondent at CTV News

National Political and Investigative Correspondent for @CTVNews. Previously with CBC News. Former Refugee. Hockey mom. DM me. IG: judyatrinh_

Articles

Conservative platform promises more than $100B in new measures over four years

2 days ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

The Conservatives have released their fully costed platform on Tuesday with more than $100 billion in new spending, with measures including a 15 per cent income tax cut for Canadians making an annual salary of $57,000 a year. The estimated price of the priorities Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has outlined during this election will cost taxpayers $100.6 billion in deficit spending over the next four years, despite the Conservative priority to reduce government spending.
Lack of costed Conservative platform is an ‘opportunity lost,’ says analyst

3 days ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

Two hours after sunrise on Easter Sunday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a campaign stop at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., to criticize the price tag of the Liberals’ election platform, which would cost Canadian taxpayers $130 billion in spending.
Here’s how Canada may be caught between the U.S. and China trade war

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

Canada’s semiconductor industry could soon be caught in the economic vice grip of the escalating trade war between the United States and China. U.S. President Donald Trump has begun the process of imposing new tariffs on the chips that are the building blocks of digital technology found in homes and offices, from televisions to ovens to cellphones to cars.
No new actions announced as Carney pauses campaign again over U.S. trade war

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

For the third time since the writ was dropped, Mark Carney detoured from the campaign trail this week to deal with Donald Trump’s trade war. But unlike the first two times, the prime minister did not outline any action that the government would take to respond to the changing nature of the tariffs.
‘If Poilievre can soften his edges, he could win’: Inside a Conservative rally in the Soo

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. — The two sisters, both silver haired and in their sixties, arrived at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Sault Ste. Marie later than they wanted. The line had already snaked around the corner of The Machine Shop – an event venue housed in a historic paper mill. Among the crowd, parents with toddlers bundled in toques, and burly steelworkers dressed in plaid. It was -5 degrees and colder with the windchill.
Will Mark Carney’s early missteps cost him crucial votes?

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

As Mark Carney enters week three of his campaign to be prime minister, the festering issues of foreign interference and corporate tax havens have exposed vulnerabilities in the Liberal Party and its leader, as he swings through British Columbia. Last Sunday, Carney stepped off his newly branded Liberal plane with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, at his side.
On the trail: Anatomy of a Carney meet and greet at a Georgetown watering hole

3 weeks ago | bnnbloomberg.ca | Judy Trinh

The public may not be aware that, while a group of national reporters accompanies Liberal leader Mark Carney during his campaign, not everyone gets to be present for each of his public events. In smaller venues, only the pool television crew and a Canadian Press reporter get to be our eyes and ears as to what is going on. But the combination of pool reporting and journalists on the outside gives our news audience a more complete picture of what is going on.
On the trail: Anatomy of a Carney meet and greet at a Georgetown watering hole

3 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

The public may not be aware that, while a group of national reporters accompanies Liberal leader Mark Carney during his campaign, not everyone gets to be present for each of his public events. In smaller venues, only the pool television crew and a Canadian Press reporter get to be our eyes and ears as to what is going on. But the combination of pool reporting and journalists on the outside gives our news audience a more complete picture of what is going on.
Carney won’t fire incumbent who suggested people collect Chinese bounty on Conservative candidate

3 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Monday he’s sticking with an Ontario candidate who suggested people try to claim a Chinese bounty on a Conservative candidate, despite calls from community groups and his political opponents to ban the candidate from running. Carney faced a series of questions during a morning housing announcement on Liberal incumbent Paul Chiang, and the growing calls for him to be barred from running in the riding of Markham-Unionville.
Liberal plane won’t be ‘wrapped’ in time for Carney’s inaugural flight

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Judy Trinh

In the mad dash toward a federal election, the Liberal party did not have enough time to get the campaign plane “wrapped.”The plane is an Air Canada Rouge charter – and while the colours match it has yet to be branded with the Liberal logo.