Ottawa goes meek and gentle with Beijing
Terry Glavin: The Trudeau government’s newfound faith in ’appropriate discussion’ is the Canadian equivalent of ’thoughts and prayers’—an easy out when dealing with the China lobby
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At the global security gathering in Halifax: Up the down escalator
Paul Wells: Top defence officials gathered at the annual Halifax Security Forum to discuss the big threats. This year’s preoccupation: A re-election of Donald Trump.
Trump to Trudeau: Show me the military money
Politics Insider for Nov. 25: Scheer cleans house, a job without a description and the U.S. government sends a ’blunt’ letter to Ottawa
10 subtle and (not-so-subtle) signals from Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet
Anne Kingston: Days after the swearing-in of the federal cabinet (and after volumes of analysis), telling details from the day itself remain overlooked
Muddled is the Trudeau message on Bill C-69
Politics Insider for Nov 22: Make Freeland foreign minister again, the rail strike becomes political and Liberals on different pages about environmental review legislation
How Trudeau’s cabinet has changed since his first trip to Rideau Hall
This group has more Ontarians and far less Prairie representation. And it’s just a little older, on average.
Making sense of Trudeau’s cabinet picks
Politics Insider for Nov. 21: How little things change, Freeland’s big job and the cabinet shakeup in Trudeau’s words
For the record: Trudeau on his new cabinet and the disgruntled West
He touts his working relationship with Freeland, his new natural resources minister, and innovation in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Why Trudeau’s cabinet is still all blurry on the western front
The PM wisely avoided a stunt move like appointing an unelected Albertan. And he spoke of the energy industry with some overdue respect.
Jonathan Wilkinson and a stick of dynamite
Shannon Proudfoot: The new minister of environment and climate change has a very hard job—and an intriguing background well suited to it