While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Kevin Carmichael.
History is more dramatic after the fact. In real time, it moves slowly. Cabinet ministers resign when they fall out of step with the boss. But they don’t quit the morning they are scheduled to table an important document in Parliament. The timing of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s resignation was as shocking as anything else. It was dramatic. We’ll be...
The federal government intends to re-up a large investment tax break rather than let it expire, according to two people familiar with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s plans for Monday’s fall economic statement. Donald Trump’s tariff threats have received most of the attention since he won the U.S. presidential election in November. But his pledge to lower taxes also represents a...
Pierre Poilievre was five years old when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won the most seats ever in a federal election. Maybe that’s why his statement on the former prime minister’s death contained some revisionism. The Mulroney years are still too recent to have received thorough historical treatment. But after four decades, the details are beginning to get fuzzy...