
Les Whittington
Ottawa Journalist and Author at Freelance
Writer at The Hill Times
Ottawa journalist and author. Writes weekly political column for Hill Times. Former Toronto Star national reporter covering Liberals, finance, economics.
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1 week ago |
buff.ly | Les Whittington
This plunge into totalitarian-style histrionics is just a minor manifestation of the upheaval in public norms radiating across the U.S. from Trump’s White House. Only five months into his new term, U.S. President Donald Trump has indeed moved quite a ways down the road to his own version of one-man rule, writes Les Whittington. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
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2 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Les Whittington
The potential for a conduit to load oil tankers in the dangerous waters of the northern B.C. coast actually ended more than three decades ago.
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Nov 21, 2023 |
nationalnewswatch.com | Les Whittington
In recent months, with the whole country screaming for action on housing affordability, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has stepped up its engagement with municipalities by offering direct funding for residential construction through the Housing Accelerator Fund.
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Oct 10, 2023 |
nationalnewswatch.com | Les Whittington
Large-scale military incursions or politically motivated attacks were subject, for the most part, to international condemnation in the decades after the slaughter of the Second World War. But the censure of this kind of organized violence seems to be weakening, most recently of course in the world’s half-hearted reaction to Russia’s bloody, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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Oct 3, 2023 |
nationalnewswatch.com | Les Whittington
At least it’s not as bad as Texas, where local governments are trying to figure out how to use the law to block women from passing through on their roads to obtain an abortion in a neighbouring state. But Canada’s right-wingers are still lining up to import whatever they can from the culture wars that American Republicans have put at the forefront of their political strategy.
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