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 Moira Welsh.
Mark Carney’s Liberals will be running a member of the provincial NDP in an upcoming byelection in Scarborough Southwest. The federal Liberals announced Tuesday morning that Doly Begum, the New Democrat MPP for the riding and the provincial NDP’s deputy leader, will be their candidate in the byelection to replace Bill Blair, who stepped down yesterday.
Almost half of the 17 unions that endorsed Premier Doug Ford for re-election got nearly $40 million from the controversial Skills Development Fund despite low-ranked applications, according to secret data obtained by the Star.
The criteria used by the Ford government to hand out millions of dollars through its controversial Skills Development Fund remain a secret as a new Star analysis shows 17 unions and industry groups that endorsed the Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million. There is no transparency on how the various labour and trade organizations were graded despite...
Less than two weeks after Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie resigned after a dismal 57 per cent leadership review, another potential replacement has stepped forward to say — maybe. When reporters on Parliament Hill asked of his interest in the top provincial job, MP Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre) said, “I’ve been approached by a number of people and encouraged to run...
In the political version of self-flagellation, the Ontario Liberals have released an internal review of their campaign loss in last winter’s snap election called by Premier Doug Ford. The report, which analyzes the Liberals’ third consecutive loss to Ford’s Progressive Conservatives, focused on new leader Bonnie Crombie, who brought dazzle to fundraising events but also created a “ripple of negative...
Well, that was illuminating. I spent three weeks following (in the virtual sense) the campaign speeches of Canada’s national political leaders.