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Does Canada’s embattled oil and gas sector have a too-cozy relationship with two of the country’s largest print-media chains? That, in a nutshell, is the working thesis of a two-part research essay by self-described “climate and coast defender” Robert Hackett, from Burnaby, B.C., and writer Hanna Araza, that hit the Rabble front page this week after making its virtual debut in the National Observer’s special report on the state of journalism in Canada. “As identified by the Cor...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 23, 2021 1:00am Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured speaking to reporters in September 2020, delivered her budget this week. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) Rebel Media, she may not have been prepared for site co-founder Ezra Levant to declare it the “worst budget in Canadian history,” and “a laundry list of socialist dreams that are stowing away in this crisis.” After going through all 724 pages of the “monstrous budget document�...

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left six worshippers dead, Ricochet contributor Sanaa Ali-Mohammedexplores the “systemic, institutional, and societal forms of exclusion (that) remain a daily reality for many Canadian Muslims.” This is partly due to lack of public funding for “anti-Islamophobia work led by the people and civil-society groups who understand the issue and experience it most severely,” she says. According to her research, �...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 29, 2021 12:01am After turning her YouTube spotlight on a barbershop in Innisfail, Alta., as it proudly (albeit temporarily, as it turned out) reopened for business earlier this month despite ongoing provincewide social-distancing restrictions, Rebel News Alberta bureau chief Sheila Gunn Reid spent the weekend chronicling yet another “lockdown rebellion … underway in small-town Alberta,” courtesy of the Whistle Stop Diner in a place calle...

How to engage social conservatives Andrew MacDougall: Sloans ouster highlights two key questions: Who speaks for Canada’s social conservatives and what are they trying to say? OToole arrives to a caucus meeting in Ottawa on Dec. 2, 2020 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick) Andrew MacDougall is a director at Trafalgar Strategy, and a former Head of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper God bless Derek Sloan. No sooner had Conservative leader Erin O’Toole found himself caught in yet another row a...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 20, 2021 5:50pm Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by News Media Canada. It’s time to level the digital playing field. Google and Facebook are using their monopoly to threaten and undermine local news. Other countries are taking action. It’s time for Canada to stand up to the web giants – and step up for local news. Learn more. Good evening to you. It’s inauguration day in the USA, with President Joe Biden sworn into office earlier thi...

iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Jan 20, 2021 4:10pm Rookie MP Derek Sloan was voted out of the Conservative Party on Wednesday. (Photo from Sloans Twitter) The Conservative Party caucus has voted to expel social conservative MP Derek Sloan after it came to light that a known white nationalist had donated to his leadership campaign.  Sources say a majority of 121 sitting Conservative MPs voted to remove him from their caucus on Wednesday. Sloan has represented the northeas...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Conservative MPs have voted to expel failed leadership contender Derek Sloan from caucus after hours of deliberations over his future in the party. The vote was held in an emergency meeting after it was revealed on Monday he accep...

A number of Conservative MPs welcomed the move

A number of Conservative MPs welcomed the move