Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau Has Gambled On The Reelection Of B.c.’s Liberal Government

... to the provincial vote, a Mainstreet poll published a few days ago showed the NDP and the Liberals tied at 37 per cent in voting intentions. Clark has beaten longer odds. The New Democrats had a double-digit lead on her party at the start of the last election campaign. She has an approval rating that her Ontario colleague Kathleen Wynne — who routinely finishes last on the provincial popularity scoreboard — can only envy. Her NDP rival has to worry about bleeding support to the Green party. But large swings in voting intentions over the short period of a campaign have become familiar features of Canada’s electoral dynamics with the chips not always falling where they were expected. As Trudeau’s victory demonstrated, it is a foolish incumbent that counts on a split in the opposition vote to prevail. The B. C. Liberals are asking for a fifth consecutive mandate. Two decades is a long time for a party to be in power — even under two leaders. This week, Clark brought in the latest of a series of balanced budgets. But if balanced budgets were key to ...

When It Comes To Pizza Toppings, Canada's Pm Justin Trudeau Is #teampineapple

... the line. — Adriana Heguy (@Adriana Heguy) February 25, 2017. Some tweeple thought the issue would escalate. teacher: who can tell me how world war 3 started. student: ok well first canada and iceland beefed on twitter about pineapple pizza. — jake (@jakebeckman) February 24, 2017. Meanwhile, someone actually had a Hawaiian pizza delivered to Iceland's embassy in London. Many thanks to the loyal supporters of #pineappleonpizzas for this delivery today, along with a clear message! __link__/slj YEJWRo R. — Embassy of Iceland (@Icelandin UK) February 22, 2017. In case you were wondering, the Hawaiian pizza topping was actually invented by a Greek-Canadian called Sam Panopoulous in 1962. He says he never imagined that 55 years later, his humble creation would still be making headlines. "Pizza in those days was three things: dough, sauce, cheese, and mushroom, bacon, or pepperoni. That was it," says Panopoulos. "You had no choices; you could get one of the three (toppings) or more of them together." At his small restaurant, Panopoulos says he often threw together combinations for toppings to see what worked. Canned pineapple chunks were ...

Pm Justin Trudeau Gets Rock Star's Welcome At Woodbridge Community Centre

... Community Centre in Woodbridge Monday afternoon. Feb 27, 2017. Trudeau in Vaughan. Steve Somerville/Metroland. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks at the results of this youngster's selfie with him during a tour of Father Ermanno Bulfon Community Centre in Woodbridge Monday afternoon. Feb. 27, 2017. By Adam Martin-Robbins. Throngs of Vaughan residents, young and old, packed Father Ermanno Bulfon Community Centre hoping to shake hands and, in some cases, snap a selfie with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday afternoon. Trudeau dropped by for a quick meet-and-greet with local residents at 3 p.m. Feb. 27 after spending a day in the GTA that featured stops at Brampton city hall and Mississauga city hall, followed by a round-table discussion on the automotive industry at the Automotive Parts Manufacturer Association Head Office in Toronto. Dozens of people packed in the main lobby of the community centre, bursting into loud cheers as Trudeau made his entrance shaking hands and posing for photographs. One group held a hand-written banner that read: PM Trudeau thanks for keeping Canada great. During the tour, Trudeau visited a room filled with bingo players before ...

Liberal Party’s Meddling In Byelections Risks Harming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Brand

... are also crying foul after the party retroactively set Feb. 14 as the cut-off date to recruit members for a March 4 nomination vote. One of Trudeau’s senior advisers, Mary Ng, is running for the Liberal nomination in the riding vacated by former immigration minister John Mc Callum. Her rivals claim the move is designed to give her an edge on the competition. In his days as leader, Jean Chrétien made no apologies for parachuting star candidates in some of the party’s safest seats. Immediately prior to and just after the 1995 Quebec referendum , Chrétien appointed Lucienne Robillard, Stéphane Dion and Pierre Pettigrew to safe Montreal seats. At the time he desperately needed more francophone Quebecers at the cabinet table. It is far from certain that an open nomination process would have resulted in the selection by local Liberal members of any of the three ridings. Chrétien used the same route to ensure he had more women in his candidate line-up. He took hits for short-circuiting the process but at least his rationale for doing so and his method were transparent. Chrétien also took responsibility for imposing his choice on ...

How Did A Canadian Pm Become A Style Superhero

... to write a style column about, of all things, the prime minister of Canada. Quite a turn of events for an American lady, considering a large part of my country’s identity has been built on treating Canada like our embarrassing, nerdy sibling, who we alternately bully and ignore. And now we have grown up to find that we’re living in a house run by a racist, orange idiot and we would really like to move into that nice, wholesome log cabin in the woods with our sibling, if only they’d take us – please? Please? Ah well, as that sage of the 90 s (and early 00 s) Ronan Keating so wisely put it, life is a rollercoaster. Or as the millennials put it on social media now, life comes at you fast. Why Justin Trudeau and other world leaders love a yoga pose. Read more. So, this is where we are now, with Trudeau being today’s geopolitical pin-up. It’s hard to think of a politician more made for this age than our Justin, the Disney prince made flesh: ...

Why The Left Coast May Be Writing Off Justin Trudeau

... defender of both Indigenous peoples and the environment. When I asked him about the Red Chris mine, an open-pit gold and copper operation that is the sister project to the infamous Mount Polley development, he didn’t mince words. “Putting a mine on Todagin Mountain is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel,” he says. Wade Davis: ‘What shocked me… one by one, every mega-development that the B. C. people took issue with, [the Liberals] endorsed.’ Photo by Ryan Hill. Davis received an honorary degree from Mc Gill University where Gerald Butts, now the PM’s principal secretary, is a governor and member of the executive committee. He told Butts he would do anything to get Trudeau elected. Like a lot of Canadians, Davis was seized with a sense of urgent need to get rid of Harper. Butts eventually took him up on the offer. “I was asked by Gerry to introduce Justin and his ...

Justin Trudeau, Canada Get Shout-out In Donald Trump's Speech To Congress

... Trudeau everywhere with Donald Trump. The speech made no mention of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump blasted daily during his election campaign and now wants renegotiated. Earlier Tuesday, Republicans on Capitol Hill expressed uncertainty when asked when NAFTA negotiations might begin. Although lawmakers are supposed to be involved in the process, they said they hadn’t received direction from the White House yet. The uncertainty is heightened by the fact that one key player in trade negotiations, the United States trade representative, could see his Senate confirmation stalled for months, amid partisan wrangling and concern about his past legal work for foreign governments. It’s unclear whether Trump might instead lean on his newly confirmed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. However, the commerce secretary does not have legal responsibility for trade negotiations. And the key congressional committee that needs to be consulted is swamped with massive projects involving health ...

Feds Play Support, Not Lead, In Grassy Narrows Mercury Contamination

... MORE: Study claims mercury still leaking from mill near Grassy Narrows: chief. For its part, Health Canada says it has funded community research on mercury since 2000, adding this includes support for testing fish and other wildlife. In a statement late Wednesday, it also said it has paid for a community health assessment with Ontario since 2014. Ottawa must firmly commit to help clean up the toxic material, said Chief Simon Fobister, who met Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett on Monday. He said he hasn’t heard an official response to this request, adding his people are still suffering. “Minister Bennett was really mum on that,” Fobister said. “We are asking what their role is now.”. In a statement, Bennett’s office said it is providing access to expertise and information from other departments to help the reserve deal with the contamination, noting it is also working on renewing the Mercury Disability Board – a panel designed to implement settlement terms. Canada’s monitoring of risks to Grassy Narrows has been a terrible failure for decades, said David Sone, an environmental justice advocate with the group Earthroots. ...

Dreamy 20-something Justin Trudeau Is Here To Steal Your Heart

... out if there's a Trudeau-themed ride set up yet. This is just all too much. These pictures are enough to make you forget that Jordan Catalano ever existed. These pictures are enough to make you forget that you ever existed. Hot young Le BAE will give you an existential crisis. (And then graciously rescue you from that existential crisis because he's trained in philosophical CPR.). I can't handle this. First of all, how dare you! No one has ever looked this good as a late-teenager. Where is your acne? Why is your conditioner game on fleek? Who taught you how to smize? WHO TAUGHT YOU? How did we go decades without knowing about this hot front from the north? Keeping Justin Trudeau from America was an act of war. I'd like to speak to the president of Canada, please. You have some explaining to do. Just kidding. How could we stay mad at the place that brought us such beauty. It's just incomprehensible. It's like, instead of puberty hitting him like a ton of bricks, ...