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Justin Trudeau and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Image: Screen shot of the news conference/rabble.ca.
Justin Trudeau, boyish, beardless and in campaign mode, shows up to bestow $1.5B on Calgary LRT
David J. Climenhaga | The Kenney government confirmed yesterday it would fork over its share of the cash for the first phase of the LRT line opposed by many UCP supporters, but the premier skipped the PM's news conference.
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A long line-up at an election polling station. Image: Can Pac Swire/Flickr.
The consequences of a pandemic federal election
Hawa Y. Mire | Canada has a hard long road to recovery -- and an election right now just isn't part of it.
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Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland after introducing Budget 2021. Image credit: The Office of the Prime Minister
Get ready for an unnecessary election
Karl Nerenberg | Why bother having a fixed-date election law if no one will heed it?
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Justin Trudeau landing in Brussels. Image credit: Justin Trudeau/Twitter.
A new NATO centre on climate and security in Canada will not lead to climate justice
Brent Patterson | To build peace, we need to end the war against nature and stop the killing of land and environmental defenders.
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Electric car at charging station. Image credit: andreas160578/Pixabay
The dirt under the hood of clean electric vehicles
Ken Grafton | The Trudeau government is promising net-zero emissions by 2050, but the prevailing paradigm of sustainability through electric vehicles has fatal flaws.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his recent virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Image credit: Adam Scotti/PMO
Canada doesn't need U.S. permission to call China and bring the two Michaels home
David J. Climenhaga | If we send Meng Wanzhou to the United States to disappear into its penal gulag, Canada will be written off as irrelevant by the leaders of the world's second-largest economy.
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Joseph R. Biden -- when it comes to Alberta's demands, the new U.S. president can afford to laugh a little. Image credit: The White House
Jason Kenney tells Justin Trudeau to make U.S. pay off his gambling debts
David J. Climenhaga | We're lucky, in truth, that Jason Kenney's gamble didn't cost us more. He was ready, after all, to blow another $6 billion of our money on this doomed project.
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Prime Minister Trudeau attends question period in September 2020. Image: Adam Scotti/PMO
Get ready for an unnecessary federal election in 2021
Karl Nerenberg | Here we are, a mere year and a quarter from the last federal election -- and in the midst of a frightful and deadly pandemic -- yet, believe it or not, Ottawa is full of election talk.
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Why did China's government detain Kovrig and Spavor from among 300,000 Canadians?
David J. Climenhaga | Soon after Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the RCMP two years ago, Chinese state security officers arrested two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
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Justin Trudeau in 2019 with then-foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland. Image: CanadianPM/Twitter
Trudeau's fake feminist foreign policy targets progressives
Yves Engler | The Liberal government's marketing of its foreign policy drains all meaning from the word "feminist," and sometimes convinces progressives to support policies driven by U.S. interests.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference on October 1, 2020. Image: CanadianPM/Twitter
Canada and U.S. responses to COVID-19 hard times are poles apart
Karl Nerenberg | American lawmakers refer to emergency COVID measures as economic stimulus. In Canada, as in Europe, they are more likely to consider such measures to be simply social programs.
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Justin Trudeau speaks in a televised address after the throne speech. Image: Video screenshot/PMO​
Trudeau rallied Canadians to fight the second wave of COVID-19 but his throne speech lacked detail
Karl Nerenberg | Based on the speech, it is hard to believe that there was any need to cut the previous parliamentary session short -- except to put a stop to committees that were looking into the WE affair.