Sue Allan

Toronto

Editor, POLITICO Canada via Maclean’s, iPolitics + Ottawa Citizen | @CDN_WPF l @KiplingerFellow | Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024 @risj_oxford

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Articles

Helen Farish: Former Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere

2 weeks ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Sue Allan

Cumbrian poet Helen Farish, who lives near Wigton, completed her PhD at Oxford Brookes University and went on to teach at Sheffield Hallam and Lancaster Universities and be Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere 2004-05.
Profile: Jakki Moore: founder of The Beggar’s Theatre in Millom

3 weeks ago | nwemail.co.uk | Sue Allan

2 1/1 Jakki Moore’s career encompasses writing, acting, directing and production in comedy, theatre and film. She studied performing arts in Carlisle before going on to Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and then working as a comedy agent and tour manager. She has appeared on national television including in Coronation Street.
Still not over it

1 month ago | politico.com | Mickey Djuric |Nick Taylor-Vaisey |Sue Allan

| Subscribe here | | Follow Politico CanadaThanks for reading Canada Playbook. Back to work. In today’s edition:→ New Democrats need a lifeline; Liberals need some phone-a-friends. → Advice for House rookies — yes, all of ’em. → Plus, a guide to the benches: Who is sitting where — and why. LOOK WHO’S TALKING — PETE HOEKSTRA just learned the hard way that although he’s the U.S. envoy to Canada, there’s no reliable way of speaking for DONALD TRUMP.
Louie Whitemore: award-winning set and costume designer

1 month ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Sue Allan

Louie Whitemore is an award-winning set and costume designer whose work spans theatre, ballet and opera, installations and site-specific productions. Her work now is both national and international, following a Technical and Production Arts degree from Scotland’s Royal Conservatoire, the prestigious Motley Theatre Design Course, and 18 years industry experience.
Carney vs. everyone

1 month ago | politico.com | Mickey Djuric |Sue Allan |Nick Taylor-Vaisey

After the pomp and ceremony, he’ll preside over a tight, three-week sitting in which he’s pledged to pass a “middle class” tax cut and reduce regulations on businesses to allow for more open trade within Canada. Both measures aim to offset Donald Trump’s tariffs, as Canada and the U.S. renegotiate a new trade and security deal. Carney will have to find his feet in Canada’s House of Commons while confronting pressing challenges and undergoing a crash course in real-world politics.
No honeymoon for Mark Carney

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mickey Djuric |Sue Allan |Nick Taylor-Vaisey

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is getting to work. Parliament has reopened in Ottawa after a nearly six-month hiatus. And the former central banker, who campaigned as a political outside and seasoned crisis manager, is up against a steep learning curve. Canada’s new prime minister will outline his priorities on Tuesday in a speech he’s recruited King Charles III to deliver.
Royal arsenal - POLITICO

1 month ago | politico.com | Mike Blanchfield |Sue Allan |Nick Taylor-Vaisey

| Subscribe here | | Follow Politico CanadaHappy Monday. Thanks for reading Canada Playbook. Let’s get into it. → The PM’s Trump cards? A king and queen. → First up in a high-stakes session? Electing a speaker. → Plus, DAVID PRATT shares a footnote on the Golden Dome. King Charles III held an audience with Prime Minister Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace on March 17.
Making airspace great again

1 month ago | politico.com | Mickey Djuric |Mike Blanchfield |Nick Taylor-Vaisey |Sue Allan

| Subscribe here | | Follow Politico CanadaThanks for reading Canada Playbook. Happy Friday. In today’s edition:→ DONALD TRUMP wants his Golden Dome. But he can’t do it without Canada. → A bipartisan posse of U.S. senators is here to meet the PM. → Plus, a delegation from Topeka, Kansas, just hit town. → And Conservative MP RANDY HOBACK talks Trump and trade. U.S. President Donald Trump announced this week that he has selected the path forward for the Golden Dome missile defense shield.
Carney’s A-Team assembles

1 month ago | politico.com | Mike Blanchfield |Nick Taylor-Vaisey |Sue Allan

| Subscribe here | | Follow Politico CanadaA NEW ERA FOR PLAYBOOK — Big news from POLITICO’s flagship morning newsletter in Washington: Today we launch The Playbook Podcast, hosted by Playbook Author and Managing Editor JACK BLANCHARD and newly named Playbook Chief Correspondent DASHA BURNS.
The decorative terracotta tableware inspired by the Solway landscape

1 month ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Sue Allan

After a long career in IT and management, Ric Lynn retired in order to follow his heart and study ceramics. In 2019 he established West Hill Pottery in Hastings, producing domestic ware reflecting the colours and textures of the south coast. He and his wife Claire then took the radical decision to move north, into one of the Solway Plain’s last few remaining clay dabbin cottages.