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Global News
16-07-2025
- Global News
Man charged after death threats made towards Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown
Police in Peel Region say they have arrested and charged a 29-year-old man in connection with alleged death threats made toward Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown. Police say they initially learned about threats made toward the mayor and his family toward the end of June, which is when they first began to provide protection for the Browns. On Tuesday, police say they arrested a man from Brampton before charging him with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. Police do not believe there are any other people involved and say they are no longer concerned there is a 'an active threat to the mayor, his family or the community.' Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy A release from Peel police did not provide any details as to why the threats were made or how they learned of them. Story continues below advertisement At a press conference on Tuesday, Peel Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich confirmed the Browns had been under protection from the police service. 'We have received and are investigating a threat that was made not just against the mayor, but his family as well,' Milinovich said. 'Because of the nature of that threat, we felt it was prudent, out of an abundance of caution, to supplement him with police security until that threat was investigated appropriately.' Milinovich was speaking to reporters at a press conference announcing that Peel police had busted a ring of people who had been conducting home invasions. The mayor was also on hand but also provided little insight into the nature of the threats as the investigation is ongoing. Brown did say that this was not the first time he had such issues. 'This is not the first time I've received a death threat,' said Brown, who was formerly an MPP and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. 'I did so a number of years ago. I'm sure it won't be the last. And it certainly won't change my approach. 'I certainly want my family to … be safe, and I believe they are. But it won't change my approach to be outspoken about public safety and to do my job accordingly.'
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Montreal Gazette
12-07-2025
- Business
- Montreal Gazette
Charest talks Trump: ‘This is a wake-up call for Canada'
The Corner Booth Jean Charest has worn many hats in his political career, from Quebec premier to leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party. These days as a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney's council on Canada-U.S. relations, Charest is focused on American President Donald Trump. Made up of leaders in business, innovation and policy, the council is tasked with advising the prime minister and his cabinet during this sensitive time in international relations. Fresh from Trump's latest tariff threats that risk devastating Quebec's economy, Charest joined hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to discuss his latest, and perhaps most critical, political battle yet. 'Mark Carney got a mandate to face up to Trump, but also to change our economy,' Charest said. 'And this is a wake-up call for Canada. And I'm of the school of those who really believe that we'll thank Trump in 20 years.' Although it happened in an unwanted way, Charest said Trump's tactics will 'force us to change the way our economy operates, to be more productive and get our act together to be able to build infrastructure, because we were fairly complacent.' Charest also discussed what leverage Canada has over the U.S. at the negotiating table, the 'only bad choices' Canada has when it comes to counter-tariffs, and what he learned from losing the 2022 Conservative Party leadership bid to Pierre Poilievre. And, of course, Brownstein and Rand had to ask if Charest had any interest in entering another race: the one for mayor of Montreal this November.
Global News
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Global News
Former UCP MLAs trying to resuscitate Alberta's once-dominant PC Party
See more sharing options Send this page to someone via email Share this item on Twitter Share this item via WhatsApp Share this item on Facebook Two former members of Alberta's governing United Conservative Party are resuscitating the province's once-dominant Progressive Conservative Party. Former infrastructure minister Peter Guthrie and legislature member Scott Sinclair were booted from caucus earlier this year for pushing back against the Premier Danielle Smith's government and now sit as Independents. Sinclair says the province's two-party system has become too divisive, and they want to galvanize support from Albertans who feel they don't have a political home. Former NDP premier Rachel Notley ended the PC's 44-year dynasty in 2015, prompting conservatives to merge the Wildrose and PCs into the United Conservative Party. Story continues below advertisement Sinclair told the Ryan Jespersen podcast that Smith has morphed what was supposed to be a mainstream, big tent party into a separatist party. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Guthrie said on the podcast that Smith has turned her back on accountability while spending too much money on a growing, bloated bureaucracy. The two are aiming to gather the 8,800 signatures needed to register as a political party with Elections Alberta.
Winnipeg Free Press
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Former United Conservative MLAs resuscitating Alberta's once-dominant PC Party
EDMONTON – Two former members of Alberta's governing United Conservative Party are resuscitating the province's once-dominant Progressive Conservative Party. Former infrastructure minister Peter Guthrie and legislature member Scott Sinclair were booted from caucus earlier this year for pushing back against the Premier Danielle Smith's government and now sit as Independents. Sinclair says the province's two-party system has become too divisive, and they want to galvanize support from Albertans who feel they don't have a political home. Former NDP premier Rachel Notley ended the PC's 44-year dynasty in 2015, prompting conservatives to merge the Wildrose and PCs into the United Conservative Party. Sinclair told the Ryan Jespersen podcast that Smith has morphed what was supposed to be a mainstream, big tent party into a separatist party. Guthrie said on the podcast that Smith has turned her back on accountability while spending too much money on a growing, bloated bureaucracy. The two are aiming to gather the 8,800 signatures needed to register as a political party with Elections Alberta. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Provincial Liberals hunt for relevance — and a leader
Opinion In recent months, there has been much discussion regarding the current predicament and near-future prospects of Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party. Hard questions have been asked. Hands have been wrung. Eyes have rolled. Heads have been scratched. Having been emphatically defeated and deservedly humbled after seven years of austere policy-making under the leadership of Brian Pallister and, briefly, Heather Stefanson, the PCs have elected a new leader, offered apologies of a sort for the most noxious positions adopted during the last provincial election campaign, and pledged to bring a more palatable brand of conservatism to Manitoba politics. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Acting Manitoba Liberal Leader Cindy Lamoureux. As the ruling NDP continues to ride high in public-opinion polls, it's the PCs' turn to reflect and rebuild. In time, inevitably, they will rise again; such is the cyclical nature of the process in a province in which politics is essentially a two-party affair. But there is another entity seeking to undergo a period of reflection and, hopefully, eventual rebirth. And for the Liberal Party of Manitoba, the issues at hand are of a more urgently existential nature. Rather than 'What's next?' the future-focused question for Manitoba Liberals is more along the lines of 'Is there one?' As the party readies for the search for its next leader, it must grapple with the fact its lone elected member — Tyndall Park MLA Cindy Lamoureux — does not want the job. 'After much consideration,' she said in a statement released last week, 'I have made the decision to not pursue the leadership. I will continue to focus my attention on serving the constituents of Tyndall Park and will remain on as the interim leader until a new leader has been elected by the party membership.' That leaves the Liberals in the unenviable position of heading toward the next provincial election — which is expected in October 2027 — with a leader who does not hold a seat in the house and, based on recent electoral history, has at best a middling chance of winning one. Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. 'We've had some rough times (but) we still are a viable party,' party president Terry Hayward said last week. 'A bit reduced, I would admit that.' In fact, it has been decades since the Liberals' role in Manitoba politics has been anything but reduced. The modern-history high point came in 1988 when, under the leadership of Sharon Carstairs (and thanks largely to the unpopularity of then-premier Howard Pawley's NDP), the Liberals secured 20 seats and served as official Opposition to Gary Filmon's minority PC government. The brush with relevance was short-lived, however; the next two votes (1990 and 1995) resulted in Tory majorities, and as then-NDP leader Gary Doer strategically pushed his party from the political left to the centre, the Liberal seat count dwindled from 20 to seven to three and, by 1999, to a single seat. Since the turn of the century, Manitoba Liberals have not held more than three seats in the legislature. The nature of modern Manitoba politics is that whichever party, PC or NDP, wins power does so by presenting a moderate version of its ideology to voters in the city of Winnipeg, where elections here are won or lost. And with centre-left and centre-right positions effectively staked out, there's simply no ideological real estate remaining for what's supposed to be this province's middle-ground alternative. That's the existential challenge facing whomever seeks and wins the leadership of the Liberal Party. And despite Hayward's assurance that 'there is a needed third voice here in Manitoba,' it's currently difficult to discern which route a return to relevance might follow, and what that voice would sound like.
