Marie-Danielle Smith is an Ottawa-based writer for Maclean’s, hunting whimsy and wonkery on Parliament Hill. She has filed from faraway cities such as Tokyo, Beijing, Brussels and Winnipeg. She peddles pun-ditry.
Major portfolios are switching hands, and some new roles have been created. It points to shifting priorities and a new power balance in Trudeau’s Ottawa.
Kuujjuarapik in Nunavik, Quebec, is giving its local church—a symbol of the colonial project—a new afterlife by turning it into an interpretive centre to showcase local artifacts
Marie-Danielle Smith: For a while there it seemed possible that his more-centrist policy direction would see him win over swing voters in a way that his predecessor couldn’t
A new poll shows that all of the leaders succeeded in rallying their bases (Trudeau appealed especially to Quebecers), but it also finds voters increasingly tuning out