Alex Ballingall, TorontoStar

Alex Ballingall

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  • TorontoStar
  • The Standard
  • WR Record
  • PeterboroughExaminer
  • Hamilton Spectator
  • Brampton Guardian
  • GuelphMercuryTribune
  • National Observer
  • The Mississauga News

Past articles by Alex:

‘Overwork, fatigue and stress’: Greens’ Elizabeth May hospitalized

May’s husband John Kidder said the long-time British Columbia MP spent a “few days under observation” in a hospital outside Victoria. → Read More

Hackers attacked the Canadian government 2,300,000,000,000 times last year

The Communications Security Establishment says its online defences search for unusual activity like efforts to deploy malware, map government computer systems, and extract information. → Read More

Pierre Poilievre says Canadians will pay way more for gas. The Trudeau government says not so fast

The incoming Clean Fuel Regulations, set to begin on Canada Day, are just the latest example of the policy fight over climate action and affordability. → Read More

Canada will eliminate extreme heat deaths, Trudeau government says as it sets new goals to fight climate change

The strategy comes with a host of new targets, but no new money, to prepare Canada for the dangers and damages of a warming world. → Read More

Trudeau government spent millions on private lawyers for work related to the Emergencies Act

Lawyers hired for work related to Ottawa’s controversial use of the Emergencies Act to quash last year’s “Freedom Convoy” protests. → Read More

Former Global News journalist defends reporting on Chinese political interference: ‘The story stands’

Sam Cooper, who recently left Global News to start his own online publication, said he stands by his reporting with his former media organization. → Read More

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives want to ‘destroy’ this rival — and what else you need to know about Monday’s federal byelections

Each riding has its own dynamic at play, from a battle with the far-right in the Conservative heartland to questions about Liberal enthusiasms in previously rock-solid red regions. → Read More

‘We are running out of time’: Trudeau Liberals under fire after Star reveals slow pace of climate action

The Star found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals failed to spend billions of dollars they pledged on a host of climate-related initiatives. → Read More

The Trudeau government has pledged billions to fight climate change. A Star reality check found much of that money hasn’t been spent

The federal government failed to spend billions of dollars it pledged on a host of climate change initiatives in recent years, raising questions about one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s core policy commitments and the massive funding publicly devoted to it. → Read More

Chrystia Freeland says Canada will suspend work with Beijing-based bank after allegation of Chinese government control

The federal government will “immediately halt” all activity with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as it reviews allegations the Beijing-based international institution is really controlled by China’s authoritarian regime, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday. → Read More

Pierre Poilievre’s plan for tackling climate change remains hazy

The Conservative leader is quick to attack Justin Trudeau’s climate-change proposals, so what does he plan to do? → Read More

Erin O’Toole blasts former Governor General David Johnston for ‘disappointing’ study of foreign interference

The former Conservative leader is the latest to cast doubt on the federal government’s “special rapporteur,” tasked with deciding whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call the public inquiry that opposition parties have demanded for months. → Read More

Too fast or too slow? No one seems happy with Trudeau government’s plans for clean electricity

Saskatchewan said Tuesday that the province needs another 15 years to meet Ottawa’s plans for net-zero power grids, while an association of utilities says the federal government needs to clear regulatory hurdles to build clean electricity projects faster. → Read More

Ottawa blamed for blocking green energy project in Nova Scotia

A spokesperson for the federal fisheries minister said the government is looking to improve the approval process for tidal energy, as Ottawa pledges billions in tax credits to spur the creation of emissions-free power generation. → Read More

Justin Trudeau says Liberal policy to fight misinformation goes too far

The prime minister dismissed a controversial policy his own party endorsed at its convention last weekend. → Read More

Hillary Clinton, Jean Chretien take shots at Pierre Poilievre at Liberal convention

‘No, Mr. Poilievre, Canada is not broken,’ former Liberal PM Jean Chretien tells the packed audience in Ottawa. Hillary Clinton accused the Conservative Leader of wanting to turn back the clock → Read More

I didn’t intentionally release ‘Freedom Convoy’ leader’s cellphone records, Crown lawyer says

Moiz Karimjee, an assistant Crown attorney in Ottawa, is pushing back on allegations the disclosure was deliberate. → Read More

Justin Trudeau’s former health minister slams his government for delay in lowering drug prices

Jane Philpott says her reforms to lower drug prices should be enacted before a national pharmacare program — and that a failure to do so would be “unwise.” → Read More

Liberal MP rejects ‘irresponsible’ allegation that China helped him get elected

Han Dong is rejecting what he calls “inaccurate and irresponsible” allegations that China helped him get elected as part of a campaign of interference in Canadian democracy. → Read More

Social media fuelled the ‘Freedom Convoy,’ and 4 more findings you need to know from the Emergencies Act report

Justice Paul Rouleau’s report diving into the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to rein in the so-called Freedom convoy landed Friday, shedding light on what led to the decision and whether it could have been avoided. → Read More