Anthony Furey
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FUREY: If the NDP takes Ontario, the bad economic headlines will only get worse
There are dark clouds forming on the economic horizon. A series of unfortunate events are lining up that could cause considerable trouble for the Canadian economy. Some of these are of our making, others are not. Some are in our control, and others are determined by circumstances out of our hands.

FUREY: Whatever happened to Trudeau’s promise of legislation for Trans Mountain?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told us back in April that he was going to come up with a remedy for the Trans Mountain pipeline debacle. One of them was going to be a financial remedy, which we now know resulted in the eventual purchase of the project from Kinder Morgan. But what about the other one? Whatever happened to that?

FUREY: The tariffs are also about how Trump’s preparing for war – and here’s what Canada can do
There’s been this assumption out that the Trump administration’s issuing of tariffs against steel and aluminum imports is solely about a trade war. It’s not. There’s something else going on. Something big.

FUREY: Pipeline purchase partly a ploy to ram through the carbon tax
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he nationalized the Trans Mountain project because he wants to move ahead with it. But what if that wasn’t the only thing he was trying to complete with Tuesday’s announcement that the feds were taking the project off of Kinder Morgan’s hands for $4.5 billion?

FUREY: Conservative Senators gear up to hit back at Trudeau’s aggressive push for 'independence'
The Conservatives in the Senate have had enough. For the past two years they’ve been brow-beaten for their political affiliation, for sticking to a tradition that’s been ongoing since Confederation – for not dropping their party memberships and signing up as one of Trudeau’s homespun “independent” Senators.

FUREY: Toronto to turn college dorms, community centres into refugee shelters
The City of Toronto has activated its emergency plan to deal with the spillover effect of asylum seekers crossing illegally into Canada at the Quebec border. The plan includes housing aspiring refugees in college dorms and local community centres.
