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Morning Update: ArriveCan app subcontracting ‘illogical and inefficient,’ Trudeau says
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
politics
Ex-bureaucrat blames system for response to Vance allegation
Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick takes part in a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
PMO was alerted to Sajjan’s concerns about Vance in 2018
Chief of Defence Staff Jonathan Vance looks on as National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan makes his opening remarks at a news conference Friday, June 26, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
opinion
A minister who ducked when the allegation came his way
Campbell Clark
politics
Federal official faces investigation over alleged anti-Semitic comments on social media
FILE PHOTO: In this photo illustration, a Facebook logo on a computer screen is seen through a magnifying glass held by a woman in Bern May 19, 2012. Picture taken May 19, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas Hodel/File Photo
report on business
Long-running legal battle over CRTC commissioner’s dismissal continues
Toronto, Ontario - October 15, 2020 --Raj Sloan -- Raj Shoan, former commissioner of the CRTC, poses for a photo in Toronto, Thursday, October 15, 2020. (Mark Blinch/Globe and Mail)
politics
Privy Council ‘concerned’ about claims surrounding Julie Payette
Governor General Julie Payette delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate chamber, Thursday, December 5, 2019 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Ethics watchdog dismisses conflict-of-interest allegation against ex-Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick
Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick arrives to testify to the House of Commons justice committee, in Ottawa, in a March 6, 2019, file photo.
politics
Federal Court of Appeal narrows release of Senate-scandal documents
The Senate chamber sits empty on Sept. 12, 2014. The Federal Court of Appeal says the government does not have to release parts of a 2013 confidential memo for Stephen Harper written by the country's top bureaucrat because it constitutes legal advice.
opinion
The Mark Norman case fizzles – and Trudeau must take responsibility
Konrad Yakabuski
rob magazine
Is SNC-Lavalin worth saving? ‘Big time,’ says former government insider and CN Rail ex-CEO Paul Tellier
CEO Paul Tellier of CN Rail in his Montreal offices, Feb 2019
canada
Political interference ‘uncommon, but it happens,’ head of Crown counsel association says
On Feb. 7, The Globe and Mail published allegations that former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould, seen here on Feb. 27, 2019, came under pressure from senior officials in the PMO to put a stop to the federal prosecution of Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin on bribery and fraud charges.
opinion
Laurentian Consensus at the centre of Trudeau’s missteps in the SNC-Lavalin affair
John Ibbitson
canada
Michael Wernick has a long history in Ottawa, even if it has been in the shadows
Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick waits to appear before the Justice Committee meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 21, 2019.