Politics Insider for Mar. 2: Canada bans Russian ships from entering its ports; Pierre Poilievre calls European leaders ‘weak’; Jason Kenney stops municipalities from imposing their own public health rules
Tag Archives: Chrystia Freeland
The Emergencies Act: What’s ‘seriously endangered’?
Paul Wells: Five PMs have had the Emergencies Act and declined to use it. The question now is whether Trudeau has met the ‘stringent test’ laid out 34 years ago.
No, really, we’re totally fighting for democracy
Paul Wells: On Ukraine, the Liberal government’s actions and rhetoric are starkly out of proportion. It is government by champion self-aggrandizers.
This just in: The PM has been phoning cabinet ministers
Paul Wells: Canada faces some hard questions on the Ukraine file. The latest release from the PMO suggests this government has nothing to say about it.
Freeland pledges $30 billion in pandemic spending
Politics Insider for Dec 15, 2021: A major fiscal update; sobering Omicron news; and Singh pivots on Bill 21
Opposition pressing Liberals to address inflation ahead of fiscal update
Politics Insider for Dec 13, 2021: The war over Bill 21; fiscal update predictions; and Ottawa backtracks on South African COVID tests
A new Chrystia Freeland biography signals possible Liberal leadership ambitions
Politics Insider for Nov. 25, 2021: Freeland has a new book; Erin O’Toole gives a ‘fiery’ speech; and some inflation talk
All together now: Childcare is not a boutique women’s issue
Shannon Proudfoot: Politicians have repeatedly referred to childcare as a mother’s problem, undercutting the essential fact that we all have skin in this game
Chrystia Freeland kills COVID-19 income supports and announces replacements
Politics Insider for Oct. 22, 2021: Liberals plan a ‘targeted approach’; the CPC gets stuck on vaccines; Moe problems
A young Chrystia Freeland impressed Soviet Russia’s KGB
Politics Insider for Oct. 12, 2021: The finance minister’s notable past; Premier François Legault’s power; and a Canadian Nobel prize winner