Nick Taylor-Vaisey

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Nick Taylor-Vaisey is a digital editor at Maclean's.

Ten things that slipped under the radar in Budget 2019

Ottawa builds a bridge, kills a bridge and goes to Dubai

March 19th, 2019

How powerful lobbyists built big-ticket budget items

Canada’s cities were big winners when the Liberals tabled their fourth budget. They met all the big players in government. Not all lobbyists were so lucky.

March 19th, 2019

This is where Canada’s 737 Max 8 jets flew the day an Ethiopian plane went down

Canada’s fleet of 737 MAX 8s were in the air constantly on March 10. One of them criss-crossed North America for almost 17 hours.

March 13th, 2019

Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle isn’t close to today’s biggest headline

Politics Insider for March 1: Liberals do their best damage control (and it goes poorly), Canada builds a new space arm (of course!), and Trudeau shuffles the deck chairs

March 1st, 2019

Save NAFTA? Check. What’s next for Canada’s top trade negotiator?

Steve Verheul was away from home constantly during NAFTA talks. But he’s been putting the business back into business travel—just ask the Americans.

February 25th, 2019

Where SNC-Lavalin’s push for deferred prosecution came up short

The firm lobbied hard in Ottawa, but it didn’t get precisely the deferred prosecution regime it hoped for and not everyone was open to its advances

February 22nd, 2019

SNC-Lavalin’s allies in its push to avoid prosecution

SNC-Lavalin’s arguments found an open audience, and its language in favour of remediation agreements was echoed widely

February 19th, 2019

The PMO condemns anonymous Liberals (who anonymously support the PMO)

Politics Insider for Feb. 15: Ottawa continues to take sides in the Jody Wilson-Raybould saga, and Donald Trump might really get the wall he’s always wanted

February 15th, 2019

Canada’s next NAFTA ‘charm offensive’ won’t look like the last one

Canada’s pro-trade pressure campaign used to target mainly Republicans. With Democrats in control of the House, that now needs to change

February 7th, 2019

Trans Mountain’s price tag: What’s a billion dollars between friends?

Politics Insider for Feb. 1: The PBO gives Ottawa’s Trans Mountain purchase a hard look, Doug Ford’s secret Super Agency revealed, and what is the Senate, anyway?

February 1st, 2019

The man who marks the edge of Canada

Joe Harrietha has faced off against wildfires, mosquitoes and melting permafrost as he and his team maintain thousands of Canada-U.S. boundary markers

January 10th, 2019

Richard Martel: The bench boss who found a new team

Nobody has won a parliamentarian of the year award faster than Martel, who was only elected in June. Talk about a rising star.

November 5th, 2018

How to destroy a lake without causing an uproar

A gold mine expansion in northern Ontario will turn a small lake into a tailings pond. For many in the area, it’s a win-win.

July 17th, 2018

How Canada’s military went viral after Donald Trump’s anti-transgender tweets

Documents detailing Canada’s response to Donald Trump’s tweets last summer banning transgender people from the military offered a stark contrast in policy—and a lesson in going viral

June 13th, 2018

These are all the places Ontario Liberals were beaten on election night

The Liberals lost most of their strongholds. They lost to three other parties. And most of the time, it wasn’t even close.

June 11th, 2018

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