Who will build the Trans Mountain pipeline—and at what cost?
Ottawa is set to take over the expansion project in August, with the clock ticking to find a buyer before construction ends, perhaps in 2021
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John Geddes
John Geddes is Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s and has covered federal politics and policy for more than two decades. He also writes regularly about art.
Why Trudeau decided to buy Trans Mountain—and hopes to sell it again soon
The feds cuts a deal to buy the pipeline and will bank on positive court rulings, but protests are another matter entirely
Q&A: MP Erin Weir on Jagmeet Singh kicking him out of the NDP
The MP said he accepts the finding that he made women uncomfortable in social situations, and hopes Singh will ’come to his senses’
Trudeau lowers expectations for swift, sweeping action on Indigenous issues
’We can do this quickly or we can do this right,’ he says, challenging First Nations leaders to set priorities and then sign on to new policies
Melinda Gates on gender equality, the G7, and Trudeau and Macron as ’next group’ of world leaders
The co-chair of the G7 gender advisory council says they plan to be about more than just talk
Toronto van attack: A subdued Justin Trudeau answers questions
Trudeau: ’All Canadians are with Toronto today in our hearts, in our prayers, in our thoughts’
The Supreme Court’s beer ruling doesn’t mean Trans Mountain is doomed
If provinces can restrict beer, why not bitumen? Deep legal thinkers don’t see it that way.
The ’free the beer’ ruling and the Supreme Court’s record of putting the brakes on change
On stock market regulation, Senate reform, even appointments to its own bench, the top court has disappointed those unhappy with the status quo
The Kinder Morgan pipeline meeting in three key quotes
Justin Trudeau on time pressures, John Horgan on legal strategies, and Rachel Notley on "harassing a project to death."
The fraught case of the National Gallery’s plan to sell a Chagall painting
How the federal museum’s scheme to sell one high-priced painting to pay for another fell apart