democracy

The host of Democracy Now! stated United States’ staggering pandemic numbers can be attributed to Trump’s “complete incompetence and malevolence.”

Four more years of an inscrutable, unpredictable Donald Trump. Or a new chapter with a friendly, predictable Joe Biden.

The two federal byelections underway in Toronto will continue even as cases of COVID-19 soar in the city, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama made a point of highlighting his admiration for Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, saying the prime minister's approach to politics is close to his own.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, August 22, 2019, ahead of the upcoming G7 summit, tackling a number of hot-button issues, including relations with China and the detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor there.

The vague language of the Liberals' Elections Modernization Act opened the door for Elections Canada's wild overreach in defining partisanship.

"I don't know of any country that could be better positioned for an election than we are, which doesn't mean that we aren't invulnerable or that nothing wrong is going to happen," Elections Canada chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault told National Observer in an interview. "But I don't think that we could have a better system than we do now." 

The budget, the Liberal government’s last before an October election in which such efforts are expected to feature, would allocate $19.4 million over four years to launch and run a Digital Democracy Project to “support research and policy development on online disinformation in the Canadian context.”

Canada and Britain will co-host an international summit in London this summer on the growing threats to freedom of the press, and to promote better protection of journalists, The Canadian Press has learned.

Jody Wilson-Raybould’s resignation from cabinet does not look good for Justin Trudeau’s government, no matter how you twist and turn it. 

Rebecca Sarfatti, a Toronto-based activist originally from Venezuela, says the retirement income her mother living in Caracas receives every month doesn't cover the cost of bread and cheese for more than two days.

The federal government is stepping in to help the struggling Canadian media industry with new tax credits and incentives valued at nearly $600 million over the next five years.

The announcement by Ontario’s month-old conservative government to slash the number of councillors in Canada’s largest municipality has threatened to upend a core democratic process already in full swing, say experts and candidates. The question on everyone’s minds now is what checks are in place to thwart such a reconstruction and what Toronto’s democracy could look on the other side.

Political scientist Yasha Mounk warns of growing distrust for democracies in Europe and the United States.

The deal that emerged from the Trump-Kim summit has been criticized as having weaker language than in past North Korean negotiations. It turns out, it also has weaker language than the G7 statement that the Americans endorsed right before Trump fled Canada for Singapore.