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Editor’s Rant: A flipped script

Borrow from the playbook of a volatile, unpredictable public figure at your peril

By Dave Bedard June 7, 2025

In hindsight it may have been a bad idea for the opposition leader to borrow heavily from the playbook of a volatile, unpredictable public figure and hope that figure remained a stable and consistent friend to Canada through a Canadian election cycle.

FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo

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Trudeau says he will step down after new Liberal party leader named

By David Ljunggren, Ismail Shakil, Reuters January 6, 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he intends to step down as leader of the ruling Liberals after nine years in office but will stay on in his post until the party chooses a replacement.

File photo of Chrystia Freeland with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on March 28, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Patrick Doyle)

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Freeland resigns from cabinet

By Jonah Grignon December 16, 2024

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday morning she will be stepping down from her position as finance minister and resigning from cabinet.

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Second day of CAPI conference tackles ESG

ESG will be key to sustainability reporting in coming years

By Jonah Grignon October 3, 2024

Day two of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) Canadian Agri-Food in a Sustainable World conference in Ottawa focused on environment, social and governance (ESG) requirements. Panels covered ESG and the changing Canadian ag landscape from national and global perspectives.

Veteran minister and MP Lawrence Macaulay was appointed minister of agriculture and agri-food on July 26. Photo: Canada.ca

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Bibeau out, MacAulay in as AAFC Minister

Veteran P.E.I minister to take over Canada’s top ag role as Trudeau shuffles cabinet

By Jonah Grignon, GFM Network News July 26, 2023

Lawrence MacAulay will be replacing Marie-Claude Bibeau as Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. It will be his second turn in the role, having previously served between 2015 and 2019. The announcement came at a Wednesday swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall, where Prime Minister Trudeau’s anticipated cabinet re-shuffle was unveiled. MacAulay, who represents the […] Read more

File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

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U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

By GFM Network News February 11, 2022

Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday. The closure of the Ambassador Bridge, North America’s busiest international land border crossing and a vital […] Read more

File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)

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Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Headway in one area, another protest elsewhere, minister says

By GFM Network News February 9, 2022

Windsor/Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — Truckers blocking U.S-Canada border crossings risk hurting the auto industry and agriculture, the White House said on Wednesday as Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day demonstration against coronavirus mandates. After nearly two years of pandemic measures in many countries, opposition has sprung up in different ways with copycat protests in […] Read more

Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)

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Pandemic protestors block Windsor border crossing

Commercial traffic being diverted to Sarnia

By GFM Network News February 8, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — The busiest land crossing between the U.S. and Canada was jammed on Tuesday after Canadian protestors blocked lanes on Monday over their government’s pandemic control measures. While traffic in both directions was initially blocked, U.S.-bound lanes have since reopened, Windsor Police tweeted. Drivers demanding an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates […] Read more

Romana Didulo, the self-declared “Queen of Canada” and a leading Canadian QAnon figure, leaves after speaking on Parliament Hill as truckers and supporters continue to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Ottawa on Feb. 3, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Patrick Doyle)

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Canada rules out use of troops against truck blockade

More protests planned

By GFM Network News February 4, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government will not use troops against protestors whose nearly week-long demonstration against coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. More than 200 trucks and other vehicles have been blockading downtown roads in the nation’s capital since last Friday […] Read more

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Ottawa’s Agriculture Day gathering a sector-wide affair

By GFM Network News February 14, 2020

Agriculture Day celebrations across Canada on Tuesday included a conference in Ottawa with roughly 500 attendees from across the ag sector. Hosted by Agriculture More than Ever, the event aimed to bring together people involved in agriculture, food and agribusiness. “We’re having a gathering to celebrate Canadian agriculture and food and the contributions that we […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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