Etiket: Konrad
Column by Konrad Yakabuski: What if the Supreme Court invalidated Law 21?
The adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 40 years ago gave the Supreme Court of Canada greater power to strike down laws passed by duly elected representatives…
Konrad Yakabuski’s chronicle: The improbable mission of Mélanie Joly
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a big risk by appointing Mélanie Joly as Minister of Foreign Affairs last October. Six years after his declaration that Canada was “back”—a declaration that…
The chronicle of Konrad Yakabuski: The task of Jean-Yves Duclos
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not dare to follow the example of French President Emmanuel Macron, who created a controversy in his country by saying this week he wanted to…
The chronicle of Konrad Yakabuski: these multiculturalist mayors
In the Ontario of my youth, the city of Brampton was best known as the political stronghold of Bill Davis. Becoming the Progressive Conservative premier of the province in 1971,…
Chronicle of Konrad Yakabuski: toughen up
In office this week, the new United States ambassador to Canada was quick to express his desire to see Justin Trudeau’s government toughen up its rhetoric towards China. “To Canada…
Chronicle of Konrad Yakabuski: the last days of the monarchy
No one was surprised to see the Conservative MPs oppose this week the tabling by the Bloc Québécois Stéphane Bergeron of a motion to congratulate Barbados “for freeing itself from…
Angela Konrad, always on the lookout
“We go from political correctness to artistically correct”, launches the director Angela Konrad about the decision rendered by Judge Yannick Couture of the Court of Quebec affirming that the action…
Konrad Yakabuski’s Chronicle: The Value of French
Canada’s very first Commissioner of Official Languages, Keith Spicer, identified what he considered to be the source of Air Canada’s chronic deficiencies with regard to the obligations of the air…