In an interview with Bloomberg News in which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland denied reports of a rift with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, amid speculation he wants to replace her with Mark Carney, she also indicated the Liberals’ strategy for winning next year’s election.
At the edge of a east-end Hamilton park, Lisa Bartlett carefully wipes dirt off her belongings after heavy rainfall partially collapsed and flooded her tent.
Living in an encampment is hard, said Bartlett, 50.
It’s often uncomfortable and unsafe, she added.
She wears a whistle she around her neck and carries a can of hairspray to ward off anyone who seems dangerous.
“… The latest Nanos federal ballot tracking has the Conservatives now at 41.0 per cent, 15 points ahead of the Liberals at 25.7 per cent. The NDP, meanwhile, are sitting at 17.3 per cent, the Bloc at 8.9 per cent, the Green Party at 4.2 per cent and the Peoples Party at 2.6 per cent.
Nanos says it’s young people, who he called a swing-voting block, appear to be deserting the Liberal government.
“In 2015, Justin Trudeau built his majority around many enthusiastic and positively minded young people who were progressive,” he said. “Fast forward now, and those same young people have deserted the Liberals and are looking at the Conservatives probably because of the anxiety and frustration they are having with the rising cost of living and housing.”
This is a moment of reckoning for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The question of whether to stay or go, or to deliver some other kind of dramatic change the Liberal caucus is clamouring for, is one of the most sensitive and solitary exercises a prime minister can undertake.
Sometimes the moment arrives when bitter internal rivalries push a leader out, as happened to Jean Chrétien. Sometimes it comes on the night of a general election defeat, as it did for Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
Canadian real estate didn’t get a boost from a recent rate cut. That’s good news, according to BMO’s latest research note. The bank broke down CREA’s June update on existing home sales, and believes this is what the Bank of Canada (BoC) would like to see. Cheaper credit didn’t suddenly spark exuberant demand, potentially clearing the way for more rate cuts. However, BMO warns the data is driven by just one major factor—people fleeing the country’s largest markets, Toronto and Vancouver. This same trend is also helping to boost prices in traditionally affordable regions, creating a split market driven by the same issue.
To boil down the economy of labor for his university students, Mikal Skuterud often poses them a basic question: Would they prefer to graduate when jobs are scarce or when workers are scarce?
They mostly vote for a time of worker scarcity. Workers can benefit in a vast job pool through employers’ competition to attract them — with better wages, for example — though this dynamic varies across industries, said Professor Skuterud, a labor economist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario who specializes in immigration.
“Labor economists tend to see labor shortages not as a first-order economic problem that governments need to solve,” he said.
In-house research conducted by the Privy Council Office found Canadian military members feel disheartened and abandoned by the state of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
Of those surveyed, each of them said they believe Canada is “on the wrong track” in national defence, per Blacklock’s Reporter. Findings were drawn from focus groups with retired veterans as well as active soldiers, sailors and air crew.
OTTAWA — A former aide to then prime minister Stephen Harper who oversaw major appointments is casting doubt on the Liberals’ explanation that the public service failed to properly vet Canada’s new human rights commissioner Birju Dattani.
Howard Anglin, who served as Harper’s deputy chief of staff, said that each appointment for the head of a major agency or board goes through layers of verifications from ministerial staff, the Privy Council Office (PCO) and the cabinet itself.
Who’s that guy? Pierre Poilievre may not be recognizable to some Canadians, but a lot of them still want to vote for him
OTTAWA — About a third of Canadians can’t put a name to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s face, a new poll suggests, even as his party commands at least a 17-point lead over Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in public support.
But Abacus Data CEO David Coletto says that’s not actually a problem for Poilievre, and instead signals one for Trudeau, whose floundering fortunes are driving big questions about how or if he can hang on to power — and who might replace him if he goes.
The Canadian government is defending its decision to spend a reported US$6.6-million on a luxury residence for its consul-general in New York, saying relocating to this condominium near Central Park will end up saving taxpayers money.
The New York Post reported that the three bedroom apartment, 11A at 111 W.57th Street in Manhattan, is located in an area referred to as Billionaires’ Row.
Party House is more like it.
A mile wide and an inch deep is one way to describe Canada’s current foreign-policy strategy. Since 2015, Canada has been balancing a range of priorities and initiatives. It has been working to build trade relationships and deliver on security commitments while also advancing progressive politics around the world.
Ron Sept is getting desperate.
He can’t afford a car, his prescription medications, eyeglasses or new clothes, he said. He’s stopped eating meat to save on groceries, which he can only buy with the money his son living overseas sometimes sends him. If you visit him in his one-bedroom apartment in Nanaimo, B.C., you’d have to sit on the floor, because he has one chair and no table.
Incumbent governments around the world are in trouble, and some parties are hitting the panic button as a result. Alongside dramatic electoral results in the U.K. and France, in just the last few weeks we’ve seen heated debates emerge around the leadership of both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden. Members of both leaders’ parties have called for each to step aside, hinting at much sharper feedback behind the scenes.
Dear The Right Honourable.
It certainly would aggravate even a normal person to hear, day in and day out, that the large majority of the population wants to see the hind end of you as you exit — and fast.
And even though you are by no means normal, it must gall your supersized ego.
As calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down grow louder, inevitably, talk of “rebranding” the Liberal party of Canada in a post-Trudeau era has begun. But let’s pause and consider the weight of that word: rebranding.
In marketing and politics, “rebranding” is often tossed around as if it were a magic wand, capable of instantly transforming public perception. This notion is not just simplistic; it undermines the complex reality of brand equity and the arduous process of shifting deeply ingrained public perceptions.
