Section: Macleans (Canada)
Trudeau says Canada-U.S. border to close at midnight: Full Transcript
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered his daily briefing from Rideau College on the coronavirus outbreak. The following is the transcript of his remarks, in English, for March 20, 2020. We’re in discussion with Canadian airlines to help Canadians stranded abroad come home. We will have more details to share but the first flight will be...
The easiest event to cancel: Trudeau and the premiers
This week’s question is: How do governments govern in a world where the monkeys are rioting in Thailand and the Iranian burial pits are visible from space? To some extent you don’t. I’m writing this on Thursday, I feel I should emphasize, because so far Thursday is already eight times as weird as Monday was, and I have a hard...
As if on cue, Republicans resume their Biden investigations
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider: America 2020 newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox. Warren is out: Just as this newsletter was about to send, news started breaking that Elizabeth Warren had decided to pull out of the race for the U.S. presidency. News is breaking at CNN as well as the New...
The minister of everything, Chrystia Freeland, takes on the coronavirus
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Minister of Everything Chrystia Freeland a new job as overseer of the federal COVID-19 response, and the deputy PM held her first press conference in that role yesterday alongside...
Biden Burns Bernie, Bloomberg Bombs
Joe Biden, lifted by a sudden burst of last minute support, has come from behind and emerged from Super Tuesday ahead of Bernie Sanders and the new front runner in the Democratic Primary race. Just a week ago Biden was being written off for his poor fundraising results and fourth place showing in Iowa. But as polls closed last night he had...
Biden Burns Bernie, Bloomberg Bombs
Joe Biden, lifted by a sudden burst of last minute support, has come from behind and emerged from Super Tuesday ahead of Bernie Sanders and the new front runner in the Democratic Primary race. Just a week ago Biden was being written off for his poor fundraising results and fourth place showing in Iowa. But as polls closed last night he had...
The UN, where rights abusers get to be on the human rights council
It would be a sufficiently damning indictment of the United Nations that on the 75th anniversary of the global body’s founding, the state of international multilateralism is in utter disarray and mass murderers, war criminals and their torture states enjoy almost total impunity from the reach of international law. But it gets worse....
A ‘final attempt’ to save Confederation
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox. When Andrew Scheer urged Justin Trudeau this week to “direct the RCMP” to end blockades strangling the nation’s railways, Trudeau and his public safety minister, Bill Blair, said they would not interfere in police...
Flight 752: A family torn apart
Dr. Shekoufeh Choupannejad and her daughters, Sara Saadat, 23, and Saba Saadat, 21, were facing a long, global hopscotch day of travel—Tehran to Kyiv to Toronto to Edmonton—that would begin with a pre-dawn flight out of the Iranian capital. Shekoufeh insisted that instead of driving them to the airport, Abbas Saadat, her husband and Sara and...
L’état, c’est Donald Trump
The Czar of the Deplorables remains the president of the United States, at least for Super Bowl weekend, but the impeachment trial of Donald Trump still was not formally finished at sunset in Washington on Friday, defying predictions that the Senate would wipe its hands of the whole grubby business in time for burgers and dilly-dilly on Sunday...
