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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | David Moscrop |Max Fawcett |Laurie Adkin
Three weeks from election day, Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives are well ahead of their opponents in the polls. That ought to give any sensible person pause. The province is home to 16 million people. It creates roughly 40 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product. It houses major industries, including automobile manufacturing, mining, real estate, and finance. In sum, the stakes are high in Ontario.
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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Laurie Adkin |Chris Hatch |Rosa Galvez
U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is posed to swallow us all up? The salient responses to Trump’s threats reveal once again that no Canadian government takes seriously the unfolding transformation of the Earth’s climate.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Kyle Duggan |Max Fawcett |Laurie Adkin
The federal Liberal caucus is meeting today and tomorrow on Parliament Hill as the party searches for its next leader. Candidates who want to run to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader are almost out of time to confirm their bids. Leadership hopefuls face a 5 p.m. deadline to declare they will run and submit their paperwork. The party can take up to ten days to officially approve their candidacies — and none of them have been officially approved yet.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
canadiandimension.com | Laurie Adkin
Since my January 8 commentary on the EDI (un)developments at the University of Alberta, more information has been revealed about why the decision was made to replace “equity, diversity, and inclusion” initiatives with a “new framework” called “access, community, and belonging” (ACB). It is clearer than ever that the impetus for this move was political and ultimately aimed at placating the province’s far-right politicians.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Max Fawcett |Laurie Adkin
Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has secured the endorsements of four more current and former cabinet ministers. On Tuesday, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree and former housing minister Sean Fraser all threw their support behind Carney on social media.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Kelly Malone |David Moscrop |Laurie Adkin
Canadian officials are adopting a different tone after President Donald Trump ordered a study of the United States' trade relationship with Canada, pushing the threat of devastating tariffs down the road — temporarily. "We need to move from a defensive position to offensive in the sense that we have a lot of good things to put on the table in that discussion," Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said at the cabinet retreat in Montebello, Que., on Tuesday.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Rosa Saba |David Moscrop |Laurie Adkin
The University of Guelph is leading the creation of a network meant to spur investment in Canadian agri-food innovation, including developing new technologies to address pressing issues like climate change. The university received an almost $16.3 million government grant over five years to support the platform, called Sustainable Food Systems for Canada, or SF4C. The platform is designed to help agri-food entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Sarah Ritchie |Kyle Duggan |David Moscrop |Laurie Adkin
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Donald Trump's suggestion that he will impose sweeping tariffs on Canada on Feb. 1 is "nothing new," and insists Canada has plans ready for several possible scenarios. LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly stepped out of a cabinet meeting in Montebello, Que. to deliver a statement to reassure Canadians after the newly installed U.S. president signed a stack of unrelated executive orders Monday evening.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Laurie Adkin |David Moscrop
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith won't be at president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural ceremony on Monday after all, due to bitter cold weather forecasted for tomorrow in Washington, D.C.Smith, who is spending five days in Washington on a diplomatic trip, was scheduled to attend the event.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Sarah Ritchie |Max Fawcett |Laurie Adkin
Federal cabinet ministers are gathering in Montebello, Que., today as Donald Trump returns to the White House. Trump has pledged to sign an executive order on inauguration day to impose 25 per cent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico. When he first made the threat, the president-elect said the tariffs were a response to what he called inaction by both countries on keeping migrants and illegal drugs out of the United States.
