By Leah Schnurr October 19, 2015 OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is moving back to the house where he grew up. The Liberal leader, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, led his party to victory in a
By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel October 19, 2015 MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning
By William Thorsell October, 2015 Not in recent times have Canadian voters had an opportunity to “throw the bastards out” in the classic phrase. Elected officials generally leave office before such public urges get to them. Brian Mulroney stepped down five months
On September 19, Mayor Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Alberta, presented at the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium, an annual event showcasing leading thinkers, hosted by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and its co-founders and co-chairs, John Ralston Saul and the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson. As
TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA October, 2015 Canadians are committing an act of insanity. Insanity being doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different result. On October 19 millions of Canadians are marching to the polls to repeat a time honoured tradition: throw
The shambles of Canada’s democracy, and paralysis in the face of existential economic, environmental and civil threats to the country I call home, drove me from being a lifelong, carefully non-participatory journalist observer of politics, into activism during this federal election. I signed, for the first time in my
Today Canadians head to the polls for Canada’s 42nd federal general election. The campaign, one of the longest in Canadian history, has been ugly and divisive. Canada’s three traditional parties, the incumbent Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats, are challenged not only by the Greens and, in the
By David Suzuki October, 2015 When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is today. Women and minorities couldn’t vote, nor could Indigenous people who had lived here from time immemorial. In 1942,
In the first of two Frontlines posts this weekend, F&O offers our weekly lineup of eclectic reads and stunning images for your weekend pleasure. Watch for our Focus on Canadian politics, prior to the federal election Monday Oct. 19. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015, Natural History
by Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica October 2015 How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on