- Ontario will have to hike taxes or cut spending to meet fiscal targets, watchdog warns - Robert Benzie, Toronto Star
- Liberals drop capital-gains tax proposal amid family farm concerns - Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail
- Canada desperately needs a revived TPP as NAFTA talks falter - John Ibbitson, The Globe and Mail
- Justin Trudeau at the halfway point, or the precipice - Paul Wells, Macleans
- Morneau says ownership of assets doesn’t put him in a conflict - Rachel Aiello, CTV News
- Bill Morneau to announce tweaks to unpopular tax-reform proposals - CBC News
- Trudeau celebrates his second anniversary on the defensive - Aaron Wherry, CBC News
Damage Control
Loonie Politics Thursday: Morning Edition
- Two years in, Trudeau’s rookie ministers have accounted for much of the government’s grief - Chantal Hébert, Toronto Star
- Liberals continue tax change tour, narrow scope of passive-income measure - CBC News
- Religious language in Criminal Code too narrow: Wilson-Raybould - The Canadian Press, CTV News
- Trudeau defends Morneau’s use of ethics loophole to maintain ownership of shares in family business - Rachel Aiello, CTV News
- Jagmeet Singh plays the race card - Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun
- The idea of using private contractors to delete data called ‘stupid’ at gas plant trial - Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star
- Cowardly Quebec Liberals pretend disgraceful niqab ban isn’t really a niqab ban - Chris Selley, National Post
- Watch out for watchdogs who don’t like being watched - Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
- Warning issued not to destroy gas plants e-mails, court hears - Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun
- Jagmeet Singh hopeful Quebec’s controversial Bill 62 will be overturned - Catharine Tunney, CBC News
- Energy East’s demise could spell electoral trouble for Liberals in NB - The Canadian Press, CTV News
- The political corruption of the Wynne Liberals is a contagion - Mark Bonokoski, Toronto Sun
- Ontario to bid for Amazon HQ2 by investing in education, not offering incentives - Robert Benzie, Toronto Star
- Ontario says Quebec law on religious neutrality violates charter rights - The Canadian Press, CTV News
- Notley wins national award for advancing women in politics - James Wood, Calgary Herald
- Opposition hammers proposed changes to Access to Information law - Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press, CTV News
Washington Thursday
- McCain’s Amnesia on Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures - Jack Hellner, American Thinker
- Democrats Need to Move Left - Leonard Pitts, Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Former Trump campaign chief Lewandowski huddles with Senate investigators - Karoun Demirjian, Washington Post
- Bannon’s Bark Is Worse Than His Bite - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
- Trump repeats call for NFL players to stand during national anthem - Max Greenwood, The Hill
- Obama Returns to Campaign Trail to Rally Black Voters - Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, New York Times
- How Long Can Jimmy Kimmel Be the Hero of the Left? - Willa Paskin, Slate
- The Trump Doctrine: Obama Built It, I Broke It, You Fix It - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
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Loonie Business
- What the new mortgage rules mean for the lending market- Doug Alexander - Bloomberg News, Financial Post
- CMHC says it can withstand a severe shock as it passes stress test scenarios- CTV News
- Sears Canada extended warranties run out Wednesday- The Canadian Press, Toronto Star
- Delta says it had no role in Airbus-Bombardier deal- Reuters, CBC News
- Sale of water-treatment company not all smooth sailing- David Israelson, The Globe and Mail
Loonie World
- Kenya election official Roselyn Akombe flees to US- BBC News
- Iraqi army takes almost all disputed areas from Kurds- France 24
- EU leaders aim to let Theresa May down gently over trade talks- Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian
- Taliban attacks kill at least 69 across Afghanistan- Reuters, The Times Of India
- Catalan leader Puigdemont told to act with ‘good sense’- Al Jazeera
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Loonie Politics Wednesday: Afternoon Edition
- Bill Morneau discovers an elite, tax-dodging loophole exploiter: Himself - Kelly McParland, National Post
- Liberals set $50,000 a year threshold on taxing investments in corporations - Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail
- For Scheer and Singh’s 1st byelection tests, winning isn’t everything – but it helps - Éric Grenier, CBC News
- Morneau walks himself into a political crisis - Tim Harper, Toronto Star
- Liberals won’t act on proposals to aid news industry - Alex Boutilier, Toronto Star
Loonie Politics Wednesday: Morning Edition
- PC Leader Patrick Brown shuts down his party’s social conservatives - Toronto Sun
- Cash for access fundraising law should be widened, says ethics commissioner - CBC News
- Residential school survivors can proactively preserve documents: Bennett - The Canadian Press, CBC News
- Liberals to narrow scope of passive-income measure for private corporations - Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press, CBC News
- Special password to premier’s office computers never would have been given to an outsider, trial told - Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star
- The sad part is Morneau was supposed to be the adult at the table - Anthony Furey, Toronto Sun
- McGuinty’s statement on gas plants was untrue, key witness tells trial - Christie Blatchford, National Post
- Here’s why Bill Moreau didn’t sell his stock or set up a blind trust - John Geddes, Macleans
- Conservatives name former Rebel Media director as 2019 campaign chair - Catherine Cullen, CBC News
- Concerns raised as Liberals consider tougher French requirements for public servants - John Ivison, National Post
- As trade irritants pile up, Trudeau calls Trump to sell Bombardier-Airbus deal - Peter Zimonjic, CBC News
- Wynne Liberals broke every rule in the book - Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun
- Latest NAFTA round ends in a stalemate with plans to extend talks into 2018 - Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press, CTV News
- Ethics watchdog says blind trust for Morneau’s assets ‘not required’ - CTV News
- Trudeau’s damage control is both bizarre and insulting - Lorne Gunter, Edmonton Sun
- Ontario government ignored health warnings from its own engineers about Sarnia’s Chemical Valley, report claims - Emma McIntosh, Toronto Star
Washington Wednesday
- NBC’s Credibility Collapse - Eddie Scarry, Washington Examiner
- Trump Is Becoming a Failed President - Juan Williams, The Hill
- Donald Trump and the Wrecking-Ball Presidency - Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker
- Trump commends Senate health push, calls for fix to ‘ObamaCare mess’ - John Bowden, The Hill News
- From Carson to Kimmel: Collapse of the Late-Night Empire - Rich Lowry, New York Post
- What If Trump Wins on Obamacare and Taxes? - Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
- Federal Judge Blocks Latest Trump Travel Ban - Pete Williams, NBC News