The first public act of the independent panel assigned to review the worst mass shooting in Canadian history was to provide political cover for politicians who refused to call a robust public inquiry with judicial powers....
At Friday's Covid-19 update, Premier Stephen McNeil implied that the Trudeau government rejected his entreaties to empower a robust public inquiry into the Portapique calamity....
The review of the worst mass shooting in Canadian history will have no power to subpoena evidence or compel testimony. It is not required to hold hearings. It is explicitly ordered to keep secret “all documents and information" it collects. This adds up to a disgusting abdication of accountability and responsibility....
"I've been treated as a bad person for so long, I feel I have to prove I'm not a bad person. Everything I do, I have to be aware of being proper, of not making a mistake."...
Grabher's critics are as indifferent to the free speech rights of those they disagree with as Joseph McCarthy’s apologists ever were....
What the pundits have missed, partly because Team Trudeau's initial ham-handed responses obscured it, is a defense that remains open to the PMO....
Charlie Phillips has to be the least known historically influential figure of our time. ...
Butts's statement also included what had been missing in the PMO's defense: a full-throated denial, devoid of weasel words. ...
Scheer tailored his remarks to a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative audience, but found himself in an audience of hard-core right wingers. ...
Throw another log onto the campfire of hatred for Muskrat Falls by which Newfoundland media and politicians have warmed themselves for years....