Farewell, Richard “Badger” Brennan
After 43 years, five premiers and many, many stories, the Toronto Star’s Richard Brennan is retiring today as one of Canada’s longest-serving political reporters
Richard Brennan has never called a premier by anything other than his first name. Keith Leslie, long-time Canadian Press reporter covering Ontario politics and the Statler to Brennan’s Waldorf at Queen’s Park, remembers coming back to Toronto from Ottawa the morning after former Premier Dalton McGuinty won the election in 2003. They got on a bus at the […]
The Inside Man
Evan Solomon was an outsider with plans for a new kind of political television, but Ottawa’s toxic partisan culture changed his show—and him
Evan Solomon was an outsider with plans for a new kind of political television, but Ottawa’s toxic partisan culture changed his show—and him
The Harder They Fall
When Alberta reporters revealed a series of Alison Redford’s scandals, it created a domino effect and sent her tumbling out of office
When Alberta reporters revealed a series of Alison Redford’s scandals, it created a domino effect and sent her tumbling out of office
