Mike Blanchfield
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Mike Blanchfield
Trudeau's new feminist foreign policy welcomed by new women envoys
The Liberal government's new feminist foreign policy could help it break new ground in international affairs when it assumes the G7 presidency next year, says Germany's ambassador to Canada.
Liberals accused of diabetes tax grab with apparent benefit clawback
Health groups joined forces on Sunday, October 22, 2017, with the Conservative opposition to accuse the Liberal government of trying to raise tax revenue on the backs of vulnerable diabetics.
U.S. not 'dictatorship,' time for Congress to commit on NAFTA: Liberal MP
Donald Trump needs to butt out as a hovering presence over the NAFTA talks and U.S. lawmakers must come clean about what they really think of the deal, says a veteran Liberal MP.
Canada passes Magnitsky human rights law, sparking Russian threats
Russia is accusing Canada of causing irreparable harm to their relations after Parliament formally passed the so-called Magnitsky Act targeting the actions of gross human rights violators.
Canada heartened by new congressional research report on NAFTA: source
The Trudeau government is taking a measure of comfort in a new report by the U.S. Congress that casts doubt on one of Donald Trump's priorities for renegotiating the NAFTA.
RCMP document targeting Muslims sparks criticism of Liberal asylum management
The emergence of an RCMP questionnaire targeting Muslim asylum seekers in Quebec sparked criticism Thursday that the Liberal government mismanaged last summer's massive flow of migrants from the U.S.
The art of not getting a deal: Trump tactics seen as way to kill NAFTA
A consensus is growing that a series of untenable U.S. bargaining positions is part of simple plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to lay the groundwork so he can walk away from the NAFTA trade pact.
Technology companies clash on cross-border flow of digital data under NAFTA
Some Canadian information technology companies are pushing back at warnings that the personal information of Canadians is being compromised in the renegotiation of the NAFTA.
U.S. dairy takes aim at Canadian supply management in round 3 of NAFTA
The first punches in what promises to be a bitter fight over Canada's protected dairy industry are expected to be thrown during this week's third round of North American Free Trade talks in Ottawa.
Former Canadian religious envoy condemns Suu Kyi's silence on fleeing Muslims
Canada's former religious freedom ambassador says Myanmar's Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the once celebrated Nobel laureate, has squandered her status by not standing up for persecuted Muslims in her country.