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Canada’s immigration target has nothing to do with McKinsey or its former head, Dominic Barton, says Immigration Minister
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser rises during Question Period, Thursday, February 9, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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In sea of consulting contract problems, the Conservatives only dream of their whale
Campbell Clark
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The McKinsey controversy explained
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Dominic Barton says he had nothing to do with federal contracts awarded to McKinsey
Dominic Barton waits to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 in Ottawa. The committee is looking into consulting contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Dominic Barton to appear Wednesday before committee reviewing spike in federal outsourcing to McKinsey & Co.
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton makes his way to a committee room to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
opinion
McKinsey still can’t shake Dominic Barton’s reign of error
Konrad Yakabuski
world
Criminal charges against McKinsey cast spotlight on its business during former Canadian ambassador Dominic Barton’s tenure
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton makes his way to a committee room to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Dominic Barton tapped to advise Canada on Indo-Pacific strategy
Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton gets into a car near the Dandong city detention center after attending the guilty verdict hearing on Canadian businessman Michael Spavor on spying charges in the border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on August 11, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Morning Update: Ottawa turns to McKinsey to fix Phoenix pay system
A person makes a video call from their phone as they pass a pile of snow in front of Parliament Hill's Centre Block in Ottawa after a winter storm on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Canada’s former ambassador to China Dominic Barton cleared of possible ethics breach
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton makes his way to a committee room to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Morning Update: Ottawa pledges to review how abuse is dealt with in amateur sport
Canada's Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Watchdog asked to probe former China ambassador Dominic Barton’s job appointment
Dominic Barton, the Canadian-bred global managing director of McKinsey & Co., presented a set of recommendations on behalf of the Justin Trudeau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth.
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Morning Update: Provinces ramp up COVID-19 boosters as they try to head off Omicron surge
Fourth-year nursing student Mairin Asquin delivers a COVID-19 booster shot at Jabapalooza, a pop up vaccine clinic, in Ottawa, on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
politics
Dominic Barton met Rio Tinto executives months before firm named him chair
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton makes his way to a committee room to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
international business
Rio Tinto names Dominic Barton, outgoing Canadian ambassador to China, as chairman
Dominic Barton, Canada Ambassador to China, wearing a face mask gestures after meeting with Canadian Michael Spavor at a detention center in Dandong, China, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. Barton has tendered his resignation after two tense years in the job.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan
opinion
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly shows precious little understanding of her department
John Ibbitson
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Evening Update: Dominic Barton, Canada’s ambassador to China, is stepping down
Dominic Barton, chairman of an advisory committee to federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau, talks with reporters at the World Economic Forum Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. The Liberals are naming the man once tapped by the federal Liberals to provide the government advice on its budget plans as Canada's new ambassador to China. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Politics Briefing: Dominic Barton to step down as Canada’s ambassador to China
Dominic Barton, chairman of an advisory committee to federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau, responds to a question during an interview with The Canadian Press Thursday, May 19, 2016 in Montreal. The federal government's economic advisers are calling for more changes aimed at driving business investment and helping Canadians acquire new skills as they brace for the job-killing effects of technology's march.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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PM urged to seek out expert on China to replace Dominic Barton as Canadian ambassador
Dominic Barton, Ambassador of Canada to China stands near a barricade tape as he arrives at a detention center to meet Canadian Michael Spavor, in Dandong, China, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. A Chinese court has sentenced Spavor to 11 years on spying charges in case linked to Huawei. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Dominic Barton in ‘regular contact’ with Huawei to find a way to free two Michaels, Garneau says
Transport Minister Marc Garneau stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Monday, May 25, 2020. The federal government has named a legal expert as senior adviser to Global Affairs Canada on the shooting down of a passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
opinion
For the two Michaels, the road out of China may go through Washington
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Politics Briefing: Dominic Barton secretly met with U.S. officials on Wanzhou case
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton waits to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. Canada's ambassador to China says Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are physically and mentally well, and showing inspiring resilience as they near the end of their second year of imprisonment by the People’s Republic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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McKinsey denies MPs request for Chinese state-owned clients
FILE PHOTO: The logo of consulting firm McKinsey and Company is seen at the high profile startups and high tech leaders gathering, Viva Tech,in Paris, France May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
opinion
It is time for a Canadian Equitable Growth Institute
Don Drummond
opinion
Either way, Dominic Barton’s plea of ignorance makes Justin Trudeau look bad
Konrad Yakabuski
politics
McKinsey is open to settlement regarding opioid work in the U.S. and Canada
Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin, in Provo, Utah, on April 25, 2017.
world
Ambassador given ‘consular access’ to Michael Kovrig, the Canadian detained in China
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: People hold signs calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo
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Trudeau brushes aside questions about Barton’s McKinsey role and firm’s opioids work
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Canada’s envoy to China draws attention of U.S. Senate intelligence committee chair Marco Rubio
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 12: Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) walks through the Senate subway following a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on November 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. As President Trump continues to refuse to concede the Presidential Election to President-elect Joe Biden more Congressmen and women call for Biden to begin to receive classified national intelligence briefings from the Tump administration. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Ambassador visits detained Canadians Kovrig and Spavor in China
A man holds a sign with photographs of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have been detained in China since December, 2018, as people gather for a rally in support of Hong Kong democracy, in Vancouver, B.C., Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Almost two years in Chinese prison has not broken Michael Kovrig: Family statement after long-awaited consular visit
FILE - In this March 28, 2018, file image made from video, Michael Kovrig, an adviser with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based non-governmental organization, speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. China said Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, it remains firm in its insistence that Canada make the first move to end the detention of two Canadians, following a meeting of the two countries' foreign ministers. (AP Photo, File)
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Tory critic dismisses Chinese pandemic ‘excuse’ barring access to two Michaels
Conservative MP Michael Chong raises a point of order before the Finance Minister delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday March 19, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
morning update newsletter
Morning Update: Why Canada is closing the gap with the U.S. on COVID-19 daily death rates
Steven Ceh chats through a plexiglass shield with his 86-year-old mother Barbara on the terrace of the residence Au Fil de l'eau in Montreal, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Trudeau defends China envoy, says it’s 'totally normal’ to question Beijing’s conduct
Canada's ambassador to China Dominic Barton waits to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, on Feb. 5, 2020.
world
China is alienating foreign countries, damaging its global ‘soft power,' Canadian ambassador to Beijing says
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: The Embassy of the People's Republic of China is seen on May 12, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. China has suspended imports from four large red meat abattoirs, fuelling concern of a campaign by China against Australian producers in response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison's push for an independent coronavirus inquiry. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)
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Two Michaels and Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou have now been freed. The Canadians’ story so far
Released from China, Michael Kovrig is greeted by his wife Vina Nadjibulla on the tarmac at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Ont. on Saturday, September 25, 2021. (J.P. Moczulski/The Globe and Mail)