Announcement from National Editor Matea Gold and Deputy National Editor Phil Rucker:
Politics
Dan Eggen named senior politics editor at The Washington Post – The Washington Post
Dan Eggen is taking on an expansive new portfolio as senior politics editor, helming The Post’s coverage of the White House, Congress and campaigns across the country. Dan will also oversee much of our political enterprise and government accountability coverage.
Dan is well suited for this role after working on the Politics desk for the past decade. He has established himself as one of our sharpest and most agile editors, elevating our daily report by driving scoops and accountability reporting on some of journalism’s most competitive beats. He was the unrelenting force behind The Post’s revelatory coverage of Donald Trump, from the first days of his campaign through the final days of his presidency. With his zeal for a killer story, adroitness at landing a breaking story on deadline and compassionate management style, Dan has earned the affection and loyalty of his reporters.
As Washington Editor, Dan has overseen the White House and Congress teams as they have reported on President Biden’s struggles to contain covid, exit Afghanistan and tame inflation and the internal battles reshaping both political parties. Dan has helped shape our coverage of the war in Ukraine and was a key editor of The Post’s sweeping Jan. 6 investigation, “The Attack: Before, During and After,” which received the George Polk Award for national reporting and the Toner Prize for excellence in political reporting. In recent weeks, he has helped drive a stream of exclusive reports on classified presidential records that ended up at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida as well as the “Texting through an insurrection” narrative using Mark Meadows’s text messages to reconstruct the events of Jan. 6.
Dan became an editor in 2013 to run The Post’s White House coverage and then served as campaign editor for the 2016 presidential race. Over the next four years, Dan led our award-winning White House coverage, conceiving of and shepherding compelling tick-tocks that took readers inside the administration, as well as ambitious investigations that documented how the Trump White House mishandled the covid pandemic and other crises. Dan also helped edit some of the coverage of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election that received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2018.
Dan joined The Post in 1997 as a Metro reporter in the Manassas bureau and then worked in the Fairfax bureau before joining the National staff in 2001, at the dawn of the George W. Bush administration. As a Justice Department reporter over the next seven years, Dan played a central role in covering the 9/11 attacks, the war on terrorism and the 9/11 commission. He was part of a Post team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 for its coverage of the war on terrorism. He covered the last year of the Bush White House in 2008 before covering money in politics and the rise of super PACs during the first term of the Obama administration.
Dan spent most of his childhood in Minnesota, earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota and previously worked as a reporter at the Des Moines Register and at the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the NDP is caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre when it comes to their stance on the consumer carbon price.
Trudeau says he believes Jagmeet Singh and the NDP care about the environment, but it’s “increasingly obvious” that they have “no idea” what to do about climate change.
On Thursday, Singh said the NDP is working on a plan that wouldn’t put the burden of fighting climate change on the backs of workers, but wouldn’t say if that plan would include a consumer carbon price.
Singh’s noncommittal position comes as the NDP tries to frame itself as a credible alternative to the Conservatives in the next federal election.
Poilievre responded to that by releasing a video, pointing out that the NDP has voted time and again in favour of the Liberals’ carbon price.
British Columbia Premier David Eby also changed his tune on Thursday, promising that a re-elected NDP government would scrap the long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to “big polluters,” if the federal government dropped its requirements.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
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Quebec wants to curb excessive tipping.
Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, has tabled a bill to force merchants to calculate tips based on the price before tax.
That means on a restaurant bill of $100, suggested tips would be calculated based on $100, not on $114.98 after provincial and federal sales taxes are added.
The bill would also increase the rebate offered to consumers when the price of an item at the cash register is higher than the shelf price, to $15 from $10.
And it would force grocery stores offering a discounted price for several items to clearly list the unit price as well.
Businesses would also have to indicate whether taxes will be added to the price of food products.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
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Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin has announced he’s leaving the Coalition Avenir Québec government to sit as an Independent.
He announced the decision shortly after writing an open letter criticizing Premier François Legault’s government for abandoning its principles of smaller government.
In the letter published in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, Chassin accused the party of falling back on what he called the old formula of throwing money at problems instead of looking to do things differently.
Chassin says public services are more fragile than ever, despite rising spending that pushed the province to a record $11-billion deficit projected in the last budget.
He is the second CAQ member to leave the party in a little more than one week, after economy and energy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon announced Sept. 4 he would leave because he lost motivation to do his job.
Chassin says he has no intention of joining another party and will instead sit as an Independent until the end of his term.
He has represented the Saint-Jérôme riding since the CAQ rose to power in 2018, but has not served in cabinet.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
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