Andrew McIntosh

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Andrew McIntosh, Krista Hessey

Trudeau offers words of support to embattled minister Randy Boissonnault

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday expressed support for his embattled Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil. Reporters at the summit pressed Trudeau to explain why he maintains confidence in Boissonnault in light of new fraud allegations made against Boissonnault’s former business partner and other accusations that Boissonnault misrepresented his family’s Indigenous ancestry...

Andrew McIntosh

Friction among regional spies, shadowy CSIS HQ unit a challenge for new intelligence boss

Whoever takes over the top job at CSIS this fall will face deep fissures inside Canada’s intelligence agency that are hampering efforts to probe and disrupt Chinese foreign interference. Little-noticed items in two recent reports by federal national security oversight agencies pointed to the overriding problem and challenge: intelligence officers in a regional office are bickering with other CSIS staffers...

Andrew McIntosh

RCMP has questioned Han Dong’s financial agent in 2019 GTA Liberal nomination race

The RCMP has questioned a veteran Liberal political operative who handled the finances associated with Han Dong’s 2019 campaign for the federal Liberal Party nomination in Toronto’s Don Valley North riding. In November 2023, the RCMP met and questioned David Pretlove, an Ontario Liberal aide who was Dong’s financial officer for the 2019 nomination contest, but the police force won’t...

Andrew McIntosh

Suspended ArriveCan IT consultant selling second Ottawa office condo

An Ottawa-based technology company suspended from working for the federal government after becoming embroiled in the ArriveCan app contract spending controversy is unloading a second office condominium it owns near Parliament Hill. Global News has learned that the second property put up for sale by Coradix Technology Consulting Ltd. at 222 Somerset St. West in Ottawa’s downtown is worth almost...

Andrew McIntosh

Suspended ArriveCan IT consultant unloading $2.2M Ottawa office condo

An Ottawa technology consulting company suspended from working on federal government contracts after becoming embroiled in the ArriveCan app spending controversy is unloading a $2.2 million office condominium it owns near Parliament Hill, Global News has learned. Coradix Technology Consulting Ltd. put up for sale an office suite which it owns at 222 Somerset St. West in the national capital...

Andrew McIntosh, Kamyar Razavi

Trans Mountain given more billion-dollar lifelines as debt costs, risks to taxpayers soar

The federal government has quietly guaranteed between $1.75 billion and $2 billion in new commercial bank loans for the Trans Mountain Corporation so it will have enough cash to complete its long-delayed and massively over budget West Coast pipeline expansion. If that money is borrowed, the project’s total cost to the government will now sit at around $35 billion, seven...

Andrew McIntosh

Bombardier wins deal to supply U.S. Army with jet for spy plane prototype

After losing a major contract to Boeing at home, Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier Inc. has won a new deal to sell the U.S. Army up to three of its Global Express 6500 business jets so they can be transformed into an American spy plane prototype. Bombardier won the U.S. Army deal in mid-December, but it became public only after New...