Bernard Valcourt

Election night’s biggest winners and losers

By its very nature, election day sees candidates fall into two camps: winners and losers. Here were the ten most significant or surprising ones.

True crimes, faulty statistics and Aboriginal women

Colby Cosh on deciphering data on missing and murdered Aboriginal women

Bernard Valcourt’s biggest haters in Alberta

The Ermineskin Cree submitted their salary disclosure—but hardly silently, claiming government ‘coercion’

Bernard Valcourt: A street fighter heads back to the streets

For the Tory MP—popular in his home province, and armed again with a senior cabinet job—the time for diplomacy with First Nations groups is over

It’s deadline day for First Nations financial disclosures

New law ‘leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth’

Editorial: A surprising boom in Aboriginal heritage

While some may seek to exploit ethnic mobility for their own gain, there’s something hopeful about the breaking down of barriers

The Royal Proclamation celebrates its 250th birthday

The big news: The feds pay attention to the “seminal document” for at least a single day.

A small cabinet shuffle

Bernard Valcourt becomes the new minister of aboriginal affairs

Cabinet (mini-)shuffle: Mulroney-era veteran moves up a notch

After 18-year hiatus, Bernard Valcourt rises into a sensitive position

Never mind that cabinet shuffle

Julian Fantino and Bernard Valcourt move and the PM says that’s it

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Today’s generalities

Bernard Valcourt becomes the latest cabinet minister to try to explain what will come of the unexplained employment insurance reforms in the budget bill.

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This year’s models

Welcome to live coverage of this morning’s cabinet shuffle, wherein we find out which backbenchers we have to pretend to take more seriously for the next little while.