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.
Trudeau's toughest challenge
Yet even if Kinder Morgan clears the hurdle of a First Nations court challenge and First Nations activism, it must then confront formidable opposition from BC environmental activists. For better or worse, not every goal a government sets is politically achievable.
Who the hell is @RVAwonk and how is she cracking the Kremlin's code?
This was the year that transformed Donald Trump from buffoon candidate into president of the United States and sent the globe careening toward the precipice over which it now teeters. It was the year the world began to comprehend how deeply Russian propaganda has penetrated the American psyche. They used a wholly unexpected and lethal weapon — our own irresistible addiction to the Internet.
Where was the FBI on Trump?
As Americans and millions around the world sit transfixed by the news emerging from the Mueller investigation, one question seems glaringly absent.
How did a guy like Trump elude major scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS, gambling regulators and every other major police agency for his entire adult life?
The making of Jagmeet Singh’s winning brand
Jagmeet Singh approached the somewhat obscure Skyrocket, a boutique Vancouver branding agency co-founded by Mo Dhaliwal for help with his campaign.
Snake eyes for BC Lottery Corporation
If you thought only Donald Trump could drive a casino into bankruptcy...
Bonfire of The Rebel
It’s easy to forget that the storm consuming America over Charlottesville began when a democratically elected local council, after full public debate, voted to remove a Confederate monument.
Here's the one question your angry MP can’t answer about Omar Khadr
As Peter Kent, Michelle Rempel, Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer hold themselves out as experts on Omar Khadr, go ahead and ask them just one thing: how did Khadr do it?
What if Omar Khadr isn’t guilty?
For all the fury boiling up over news of his settlement, there's precious little insight or knowledge about the case.
French election scandal traced to Canada’s Rebel Media
Russia's hacking controversy still bubbles beneath the surface with deeply unsettled and unsettling global security implications.