Anthony Furey

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FUREY: Trudeau certainly can — and should — waive Lavscam cabinet confidences

While it’s typical for the best-laid plans of political operatives to go awry, few Liberal strategists likely predicted their first curveball would come on day one.

September 12, 2019 Columnists

Liberal Party leader and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on September 11, 2019.

FUREY: Thursday's debate is Jagmeet Singh's chance to turn it around

A third-place party down in the dumps, failing to capture the national imagination. Its leader a handsome fellow and snappy dresser but that’s about it. And debates? Don’t even think about it. Once he steps out on stage and has to duke it out with others, he’ll fall flat on his face.

September 10, 2019 Columnists

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to delegates and supporters at the Ontario NDP Convention in Hamilton, Ont., on June 16, 2019.

DON'T DEPORT US: North Korean defectors plead their case

“We have to do something. We cannot keep silent.”

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September 3, 2019 Canada

Rokbong "Rocky" Kim is pictured on Sept. 3, 2019. (Jack Boland, Toronto Sun)

FUREY: My media colleagues better get their anti-Scheer bias in check pronto

Politicians post a lot of stuff on social media. Some of it is newsworthy. Most of it is not. Some of them keep their accounts pretty official, simply posting funding announcements and community events. Others like to scrap it out on the petty issues of the day and vent their daily musings. Each to their own.

August 31, 2019 Columnists

Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer addresses journalists during a news conference in Toronto, on Thursday, August 29, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

FUREY: Tell the Liberal spin doctors that this isn’t Canada’s Flight 93 election

Shortly before Americans went to the polls in 2016, conservative writer and Trump supporter Michael Anton penned the now infamous and controversial essay titled “ The Flight 93 Election “.

August 27, 2019 Columnists

This image released by the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, on Twitter on April 07, 2017 shows President Donald Trump receiving a briefing on the Syria military strike from the National Security team via secure video teleconference on April 06, 2017 at the Mar a Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. President Trump, staring directly ahead, is surrounded at the table by (clockwise from left) Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, son-in-law Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Sitting a row back from the table are Sean Spicer, chief strategist Stephen Bannon, senior adviser Stephen Miller, national security aide Michael Anton, Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn. A military aide guards the door. (WHITE HOUSE/Getty Images)

FUREY: This latest Lavscam committee cover-up is arrogance on autopilot

On Wednesday, Liberal MPs used their majority on the ethics committee to vote down opposition attempts to have Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion testify.

August 22, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau points to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer while walking with the crowd during the Tintamarre in celebration of the National Acadian Day and World Acadian Congress in Dieppe, N.B., on Aug. 15, 2019.

FUREY: Pro-Beijing activism rears its troubling head in Canada

If the mention of Communism in Canada evokes anything at all in the minds of regular Canadians, it’s probably of the poor showings received by fringe parties like the Communists and Marxist-Leninists in provincial and federal elections.

August 19, 2019 Columnists

Protesters walk along a street during a rally in Hong Kong on August 18, 2019, in the latest opposition to a planned extradition law that has since morphed into a wider call for democratic rights in the semi-autonomous city. - Hong Kong democracy activists gathered August 18 for a major rally to show the city's leaders their protest movement still attracts wide public support despite mounting violence and increasingly stark warnings from Beijing.

FUREY: Here's why it's up to Jagmeet Singh to expose Trudeau's game

The latest developments in Lavscam are very bad indeed. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been found to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act. We’ve now gone from the realm of political messaging into the realm of lawbreaking.

August 17, 2019 Columnists

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

FUREY: In arguing with Dion’s ruling, Trudeau acts like he’s above the law

Almost from the beginning of Lavscam it was clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a smug and dismissive attitude towards the whole affair.

August 15, 2019 Columnists

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacts as he walks to the podium to speak with reporters about a watchdog's report that he breached ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case regarding SNC-Lavalin, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 2019.

FUREY: A rare example of actual fake news in Canadian electoral politics

It seems that not a day goes by without hand-wringing over the looming threat of fake news or misinformation in Canadian politics. Debate panels are convened. Investigative reports issued. Statements made by politicians.

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August 7, 2019 Columnists

Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer gives an election-style speech at the Northern Alberta Leader’s BBQ held at Millenium Place in Sherwood Park, on Friday, July 19, 2019. (Ian Kucerak/Postmedia Network)

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