Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In fact, there’s a lot about the summer of 2020 that boomerangs back to the long hot days of 2017, when Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Governor-General Julie Payette — each in their own ways — […] The issues we cover are important but not as important as our collective health. Then applauds herself when Liberal insider Rob Silver and Globe’s Tabatha Southey guffaw at her stunning wit: 1,000-or-so followers. Somebody’s trying to tell you something, sir. Over her long career she has worked at some of the top newsrooms in the country, from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail to the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. But on one occasion a couple of years ago, Harper made an exception to his rule during a Q&A on a stage in New York with Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker.Asked whether Canada had become more ‘conservative’ under his watch, Harper replied with an intriguing boast:“What’s most interesting politically about our coming to office and staying in office … the growth of Conservatism in Canada, our electoral support, has been largely, not exclusively, but largely by our penetration of immigrant voters … of so-called cultural communities,” Harper said.Mike Robinson’s sudden death at 65 left headline writers stumped: organizer, advisor and lobbyist didn’t do justice to his personality or his role in federal politics.The disastrous Brexit vote result may have changed the political calculus on an electoral reform referendum here at home.It only took one week for Justin Trudeau’s government to make a deal with the provinces on the Canada Pension Plan, settle an assisted-dying dispute — and find itself dragged back into a new round of controversy over how Canada treats its veterans.What do all these big, thorny issues have in common? She teaches classes in journalism and political communication at Carleton University. Author of four books, her latest — Shopping For Votes — was a finalist for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Canadian non-fiction in 2014.
By sheer happenstance, Abacus and the Leitch leadership campaign were out in the field in late August, doing some survey work that touched on Canadian values. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Special Guest-Host Before the Bell & Columnist, The Toronto Star Susan Delacourt is one of Canada's best-known political journalists. “It’s even more important to listen in government — and harder, sometimes in ways you don’t expect.”iPolitics publishes content everyday, throughout the day. Over at the Globe and Mail, columnist Gerry Caplan is making a case for May to be the next leader of the New Democrats. In the US campaign, Hillary Clinton’s health has become an issue. His videotaped farewell was entirely in keeping with the character we came to know over the past decade — disciplined, tightly scripted, alone and, above all, conservative in every sense of the word.Canada is not entirely finished with the first-past-the-post system for electing members of Parliament. Maybe they didn’t enter.By the time this week is over, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau probably will have had enough of socializing with reporters.The press gallery dinner on Saturday night, a garden party with the media on Tuesday night — Trudeau likely has chit-chatted with more reporters in 72 hours than Stephen Harper did in an entire year.Now, this isn’t going to be another column about how Harper was mean to the media. That’s a stretch, I think. Over her long career she has worked at some of the top newsrooms in the country, from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail to the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. Happy New Year and better luck in 2013. But for now I hope every will stay healthy and safe! (Example: “Stephen Harper loved humanity. She teaches classes in journalism and political communication at Carleton University.Before the Bell will be returning only after the green light has been given by our Public Health experts. Susan Delacourt is a premiere columnist for the Toronto Star and one of Canada's best-known political journalists. Susan Delacourt shared. It’s not the kind of thing that happens in Canada.The good news for Kellie Leitch — and she might need some right now — is that many Canadians believe this country needs young, female political leaders.The bad news is that most Conservatives — the people who make up the party Leitch wants to lead — do not share that view.These findings come from new research by Abacus Data. Over her long career she has worked at some of the top newsrooms in the country, from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail to the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. In this odd period in Ontario politics, the only thing more unpredictable than the voters is the politicians.It’s bad luck, according to one old superstition, to leave a building by a different door than the one you used to enter it.The former prime minister made his exit from political life the same way he entered it.