Canadian Politics

Editorial

The danger within

January 16, 2025

It is neither the place nor the desire of The Catholic Register to mouth off in the mode of political partisanship. But being Catholic, we are justified in piping up about death and resurrection.

Trudeau to resign, Parliament prorogued

Quinton Amundson · January 6, 2025

A Catholic university political scientist says Justin Trudeau seems to have seen himself as the last man standing in Ottawa — until he wasn’t.

Editorial

Trudeau resignation might be too late for charities' sake

January 6, 2025

Fundamental political leadership demanded that Prime Minister Trudeau unequivocally declare before Christmas whether he would try to continue leading Canada or resign.

The Mustard Seed

Finding leaders in the arms of the Angel

Glen Argan · January 3, 2025

The Globe and Mail interviewed business leaders about Dominic LeBlanc’s appointment as finance minister, so it set the parameters for the resulting story. These men are entitled to their opinions, but their assumption that Canada’s finance minister needs to be “one of us” shows a lack of regard for broader concerns.

Government implosion almost certain with NDP vowing to bring down Trudeau

Quinton Amundson · December 20, 2024

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh declared today in a letter shared to social media that he and his party will join Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and Yves-François Blanchet’s Bloc Québécois in bringing down the Liberal Government with a non-confidence vote.

Online harms change overshadowed by Trudeau drama

Quinton Amundson · December 17, 2024

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau precariously hanging on to power following the Dec. 16 resignation of his formerly trusted lieutenant Chrystia Freeland as Minister of Finance, a growing revolt within the Liberal ranks and calls from Opposition benches for the PM's resignation and an election, there's been no lack of drama on Parliament Hill.

Editorial

Naming it

November 8, 2024

As a Catholic newspaper committed to telling non-partisan truth in charity, the Register would never seek to interest its readers in generic badmouthing of Justin Trudeau as an “idiot” and an “imbecile. We need only look south of the border to witness what festers in, erupts from, and corrupts the body politic when such schoolyard insults become the public office invective of the day.

Peril hangs over pregnancy centre charity status

Quinton Amundson · November 8, 2024

The federal government has tabled legislation that, if passed, would compel pregnancy care charities to make public disclosures to keep their registered charitable status.

New Premier to reverse New Brunswick gender changes

Policy 713 didn't sink Higgs, polls show

Quinton Amundson · October 31, 2024

New Brunswick Premier-designate Susan Holt said one of her first orders of business will be reversing the parent-friendly changes to the province's gender policy when it comes to schools.

Gird your loins for gruelling politics

Lea Karen Kivi · October 21, 2024

The duty to engage in politics is not negotiable in John McKay’s view. “You have the absolute right not to vote”, the Scarborough-Guildwood MP asserts with this warning to those politically asleep at the wheel, “and I have the absolute right to impose a $100 fine on your tax return.”