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 Tonda MacCharles.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life, behind closed doors. At an emergency meeting Monday...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took an indirect dig at Donald Trump ahead of a first ministers’ meeting Wednesday on how...
As Canadian politicians jockey to position themselves as the best to deal with a mercurial incoming U.S. president Donald Trump...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s team came away from a Mar-a-Lago Friday night dinner with Donald Trump with no guarantee but...
It’s Show-Don’t-Tell time. The Trudeau government’s strategy in the face of Donald Trump’s latest 25 per cent tariff threat is...
Don’t let anyone tell you the re-election of Donald Trump is not a jolt to Canada’s political landscape. Or that...
Word came unexpectedly in January 2017 that President Donald Trump wanted to talk to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Officials scrambled...
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is testing a group of digital ads and is producing a series of broadcast advertising, including...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all smiles as he walked into a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, where dissidents in...
Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau’s economic platform adviser, says he plans to enter elected politics but won’t say when, where or...
More than 20 and as many as 40 of the Liberals’ 153 members of Parliament have signed a letter calling...
An Indian government spokesman insisted Thursday the crisis in the Canada-India relationship was triggered by “baseless allegations” against Indian diplomats...
Is it déjà vu all over again? That’s a loaded question for the half dozen Liberal MPs who were part...
With no new campaign director, no new ad campaign rollout, no major cabinet shuffle, and no change at the top...
Federal Liberals and New Democrats blasted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Wednesday, saying his statement that Israel should proactively strike Iran’s...
In a nearly hour-long interview, Trudeau gave more revealing answers to fellow political traveler Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith than he...
Leaders of the world’s top economies agreed Wednesday that Israel has a right to defend against Iran’s missile attacks as...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could see his government fall next week after the Liberals offered the Conservative Official Opposition the...
Mark Carney’s appointment as economic platform adviser to Justin Trudeau has prompted criticism by Conservatives and sustainable finance market watchers...
The summer ride is over. So too is the Justin Trudeau listening tour. The prime minister spent much of two...
Trailing in the polls and suddenly facing the prospect of an early federal election, many Liberals say there is a...
Several ministers who spoke to the Star said nobody at the cabinet table is actively elbowing him out, but a...
A top adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden urged Canada to consider heavily subsidized Chinese electric vehicles as not just...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pumped hot air into an old and baseless conspiracy theory about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is concerned about threats against his family and at one point sought increased security...
This is a moment of reckoning for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The question of whether to stay or go, or...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pushed to make serious changes to rescue the Liberals’ political prospects during a call with...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been working the phones to tamp down any caucus discontent, as his team convened a...
David Axelrod, a top American Democratic political strategist, wasn’t talking about Canada or Justin Trudeau when he outlined a pessimistic...
Canada’s EV-building strategy will cost Ottawa and provinces about $6 billion more than announced, the federal parliamentary budget watchdog says...
It’s a fascinating political petri dish under the microscope by parties, pollsters and pundits alike. Candidates and campaign volunteers will...
If Canadians thought Trump 1.0 was crazily chaotic, they should expect Trump 2.0 will be crazily methodic. About all of...
It seems only a matter of time before an elected official in Canada gets seriously hurt. In March, somebody set...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to...
Federal cabinet minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada was determined to put a human face — hers — on a political story...
The Liberals’ latest national defence plan was a full two years in the works, yet leaves major questions unanswered about...
A House of Commons committee has ruled that an “intimidation campaign” targeting Ontario MP Michael Chong “unequivocally” constitutes a contempt...
Canada will raise military spending by more than $8 billion over the next five years under a revamped military strategy...
Queen’s Park and Ottawa, which have jointly pledged billions in electric vehicle manufacturing subsidies, were jolted by Ford Canada’s move...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power promising a new era of federal-provincial co-operation, but now the Liberal leader finds...
You're going to see a lot of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his deputy and finance minister Chrystia Freeland, and other...
The Trudeau government will cease future arms exports to Israel even though a motion passed Monday by the House of...
Prime ministers always say they leave their political legacies to historians. But it’s their successors who largely write that history...
A Canadian company that makes light armoured vehicles says its shipments destined for police use in Israel, not military use...
The terrible showing by the federal Liberals in the Durham byelection won by the Conservatives demonstrates how much work lies...
A group of Canadian human rights lawyers and Palestinian Canadians who have lost family and friends in Gaza has sued...
A re-elected Donald Trump would likely act on his campaign warning to slap a 10-per-cent tariff on all imports, and...
The death Thursday of former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a joyfully combative and proud partisan, drew profound reflections...
The federal Conservatives are condemning Justin Trudeau for “letting down” Ukraine after the prime minister signed a new $3.02 billion...
The federal Conservative party’s nomination of Karen Stintz in the Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence has triggered an uproar among local...
The federal Conservative Party's decision to parachute former provincial cabinet minister Parm Gill into a Milton riding is being blasted...
A group of Black anti-racism activists were dropped from a meeting at the Supreme Court of Canada because of concerns...
A former Canadian ambassador to Washington says Justin Trudeau should ditch the anti-Trump “MAGA Conservative” rhetoric directed at the Liberals’...
Tempers flared in the House of Commons Monday over insults hurled across the aisle that MPs argued went beyond the...
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has flown to Israel to meet her Israeli counterpart, Canadian embassy staff, and Canadians seeking...
The federal government is considering airlifting Canadians out of Israel, the Star has learned. As the death count rose to...