Sandy Garossino
About Sandy Garossino
Sandy Garossino has been focused through 2023 on researching the relationship between Canada and China and this work will be released in January 2024. Previously, she was been the public affairs columnist for Canada's National Observer, responsible for some of CNO's most groundbreaking investigations. She is a former Crown prosecutor and prominent media commentator, whose bold writing is read by millions across North America.
Her writing provides depth on topics where the media's analysis of controversial and urgent topics misses the mark. She is the winner of 'Best Column' in Canada in the 2016 Canadian Online Publishing Association's awards, and was a finalist for the Jack Webster Award for 'Best Column' in 2019.
The serious $70 BILLION climate plan you’ve heard nothing about
Cancelling the pipeline expansion wouldn't have affected emissions, but the Liberals' $70-billion climate plan will — provided they're in power long enough to implement it.
Jason Kenney's shrewd canard
Jason Kenney knows perfectly well that it's all a canard, but he also knows how politics works. Avoid questions about your weak climate strategy by attacking your critics' integrity.
The hidden key to the SNC-Lavalin scandal
Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.
Canada's pawn in the Xi-Trump cyber game
As it happens, we probably do have a way out of this, but not through conventional diplomatic channels, writes Sandy Garossino. This mess needs to get back in front of a judge.
Reflections on one of this year's most painful photographs
One day those who haven’t yet been born will look at these pictures and marvel that no one gathered there knew what would happen next.
PRINCE SCARFACE: How long can he last?
This Khashoggi business has turned into a laughable parody of a Monty Python dead parrot sketch.
Inside the mind of a mass killer
Toronto has been struck again, laid low by another mass killer. What experiences drive people who kill indiscriminately? National Observer's Sandy Garossino interviews a renowned criminologist for answers.
Stop whitewashing the bloodstains from BC's Dirty Money Laundromat
First we have to bring up the bodies. So many bodies.
The truth behind the story engulfing Canada's Sikh politicians
Trudeau's India visit tarnished by a hysteria with a long and deep historical context the media completely misunderstood, parroting racist, anti-Sikh rhetoric that was dangerously damaging.