Articles by Sharan Kaur
Sharan Kaur: Conservative MPs who amplified the fake Shaun Chen scandal owe him an apology Original
Sharan Kaur served as deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently partner at communications firm Henley Strategies. She is a political analyst for CTV News and CTVNews.ca. Two stories about departing Liberal MP Shaun Chen circulated last week.
Sharan Kaur: The U.S. bourbon boycott worked—now Ottawa needs to make a deal Original
Sharan Kaur served as deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently partner at communications firm Henley Strategies. She is a political analyst for CTV News and CTVNews.ca. Eighteen months ago, Canadians did something quietly remarkable: we stopped buying American liquor almost overnight.
Sharan Kaur: Canada needs visionary leaders, not transit projects held hostage by spite
Sharan Kaur served as deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is a former head of crisis communications for Saudi Aramco. She is a political analyst for CTV News and CTVNews.ca. I live in downtown Toronto, not far from Billy Bishop Airport. I am a frequent user, and I have always wanted to see the island airport expand.
Sharan Kaur: Carney’s visit to Saudi Arabia breaks free of Canada’s ‘cycle of self-righteousness’ Original
Sharan Kaur is a former head of crisis communications for Saudi Aramco. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s historic visit to Saudi Arabia marks the first time a Canadian prime minister has set foot in the country in over a quarter of a century. For too long, Canada’s foreign policy has been trapped in a cycle of self-righteousness, pretending that we can only do business with nations that mirror our exact Western moral standard. That era of performance-based diplomacy is over, and it is about time.
The Questions, One Headline Left Me With
Inspired by one headline, shaped by many conversations, and driven by one question: What if women’s issues were men’s issues? ~SHARANDEEP KAUR Inspired by the Hindustan Times article “If Only Afghan Women Were Men, We Would Care More” by Nishtha Gautam. Press enter or click to view image in full size The article unsettled me. Because it didn’t give me an answer, it gave me a question that stuck with me. What if the issues we call ‘women’s issues’ today were, instead, men’s issues?
Sharan Kaur: the myth of the ‘Liberal recession’ and how political spin distorts Canada’s economic data
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Words matter in politics. Few carry the weight of ‘recession’, a term that doesn’t just describe an economic condition, but conjures one in the public imagination. Mass layoffs. Shuttered businesses. Families in crisis. You don’t even need to prove a recession is happening to cause harm with the word.
Sharan Kaur: Why top economists are rejecting the ‘recession’ narrative
14 hours ago Federal financial regulators have been working to cut back restrictions on banks, publicly held companies, and financial representatives. The argument is that it’s all necessary to cut friction on business and let it grow. This argument has frequently fallen apart in practice, whether the conditions …
Sharan Kaur: Why the 14 Liberal MPs need to own their dissent on the Carney-Smith deal
After a historic agreement between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney, one that ended years of federal-provincial animosity and sent a clear signal to industry that Canada is open for business, 14 MPs appeared to choose ideology over nation building. As CBC News reported Friday, 14 Liberal MPs sent a letter to the prime minister at the end of April, objecting to the deal and the concessions being given to Alberta.
Sharan Kaur: Why the 14 Liberal MPs need to own their dissent on the Carney-Smith deal
Social Justice 8 hours ago Nonprofit fraud isn’t surging. Enforcement is Fortune - Sarah Webber, The Conversation • 8h Nonprofit fraud is in the news a lot these days.
Sharan Kaur: Why 14 Liberal MPs need to own their dissent on the Carney-Smith deal
After a historic agreement between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney, one that ended years of federal-provincial animosity and sent a clear signal to industry that Canada is open for business, 14 MPs appeared to choose ideology over nation building. As CBC News reported Friday, 14 Liberal MPs sent a letter to the prime minister at the end of April, objecting to the deal and the concessions being given to Alberta.
Sharan Kaur: Ottawa and Alberta just struck a carbon deal that could actually move the needle Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Alberta and Ottawa just did something nobody expected, and it actually matters. For years, the story of Canadian climate policy has been a familiar one: Ottawa sets ambitious targets, Alberta pushes back, and the country lurches forward with neither the unity nor the urgency the moment demands. Today, that story finally has a new chapter.
Sharan Kaur: Ottawa and Alberta just struck a carbon deal that could actually move the needle
12 hours ago The research question was almost embarrassingly simple: If Viagra works by relaxing smooth muscle tissue in the penis to allow blood flow, could CBD do something similar for women? The answer, it turned out, was yes. That discovery led Carolyn Wheeler and her co-founders to build Vella Bioscience …
Sharan Kaur: Our laws are a paper-thin shield against AI deepfakes targeted against you Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. I have grown accustomed to the digital noise that comes with being a woman in the public eye. My inbox is a toxic repository, a daily flood of vitriol about my race, my politics, my appearance, my sex. I often have my image manipulated with AI.
Sharan Kaur: Language rights are important. So are the system failures that cost 2 lives at LaGuardia Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Like many of you, I watched the footage and listened to the audio from the devastating Air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport in a state of disbelief. Two people are dead. Families are shattered. Dozens are injured. An entire industry is shaken. I have spent years preparing leaders and companies for high-stakes crises.
Sharan Kaur: Canada’s most embarrassing maintenance problem Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. For years, the dismal state of 24 Sussex Drive has been a recurring punchline, a symbol of political paralysis, and a quiet national embarrassment. I spent years inside the machinery of government, close enough to watch good policy die, not from bad ideas, but from political timidness. The file on 24 Sussex is one I know well.
Sharan Kaur: PM Carney was right to walk back support for a war with no exit strategy Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. In the world of global diplomacy, the distance between a targeted mission and a regional conflict is often measured in days. For those of us who have lived and worked in the Middle East, watching the current escalation is not just a matter of tracking headlines. It is a visceral experience.
Sharan Kaur: Why moderates are fleeing the CPC, and what it says about Poilievre
The walls of Parliament shook this week with yet another floor-crossing of Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus. This wasn’t just a procedural shift in the halls of Parliament, it is a stark symbol of a new, unsettling reality in Conservative politics. While floor-crossing is a historical reality and, let’s be honest, Liberals have crossed to the Conservatives before, the difference here is the context.
Sharan Kaur: Why moderates are fleeing the CPC, and what it says about Poilievre
Beer, breakfast, both? Canadians to rise early to cheer for hockey gold against U.S. From bar stools to church pews, Sunday best to pyjamas, hockey fans across the country will be rising bright and early to watch their team play for …
Sharan Kaur: Tumbler Ridge tragedy exposes how culture wars can corrupt our capacity for grief Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. The sirens have faded, but the searing emptiness left by the horrific shooting in Tumbler Ridge remains. We are left staring at the shattered remnants of lives cut short—neighbours, friends, family—whose only crime was to be present when violence abruptly took nine innocent lives and wounded many others.
Sharan Kaur: How Mark Carney commanded the room at Davos, and declared Canada’s independence Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. For months, Mark Carney’s critics have dismissed him as bloodless; a central banker fluent in basis points but deaf to the anxieties of the average Canadian; a technocrat who lives in spreadsheets rather than the hearts of voters.
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Sharan Kaur: Carney’s China trade deal isn’t betrayal — it’s survival Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. The predictable chorus of disappointment following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement to lower trade barriers with China has already begun. But it is time for a wake-up call.
Sharan Kaur: By cheering on Trump’s Venezuela raid, Poilievre undermines our rule of law Original
In the calculus of modern-day populism, there is no greater currency than the decisive act. In an unprecedented moment this past week, the world watched as U.S. President Donald Trump cashed in, deploying American special forces to snatch illegitimate self-proclaimed leader of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro from Caracas and deliver him to a New York jail cell. In the immediate aftermath, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre did not hesitate to add his own signature to the transaction.
Sharan Kaur: Why 2025 changed everything in Canada’s political playbook Original
As we close the book on 2025, the Canadian political landscape is not just altered, it is unrecognizable. For those of us within the “bubble,” this year served as a reminder that the old playbooks are obsolete. In 12 months, we witnessed the fall of a populist juggernaut, the erasure of a major party’s official status, and a pivot toward an economic realism that only few saw coming.
Sharan Kaur: No, Canada didn’t ‘bow to the bros’ — it grew up | Flipboard
2 hours ago Canada needs to be prepared for the risk the United States may announce its withdrawal from the trilateral USMCA trade deal as a negotiating tactic, according to a legal expert who is testifying on the agreement at public hearings in Washington this week. Barry Appleton, a Toronto lawyer who is …
Sharan Kaur: No, Canada didn’t ‘bow to the bros’ — it grew up
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Let’s set the record straight: Mark Carney is not Justin Trudeau; and that is a good thing. The continued fixation of former Trudeau-era loyalists in insisting that Carney is pandering to the ‘bros’ because of his “rejection” of the word ‘feminist’ in Canada’s foreign policy reeks of nostalgia for a government that often mistook optics for substance.
Sharan Kaur: Canada’s strength lies in diversity, not in closing doors
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. J.D. Vance is wrong. Multiculturalism didn’t stall Canada; it built the very nation he now lectures us about. There’s a new wave of politics sweeping across North America that is loud, resentful, and rooted in the idea that someone, somewhere, is taking something from you.
Sharan Kaur: Inside the Conservative Party’s Culture of Fear
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Canadian politics has never been for the faint of heart. Every party has its fractures, leadership wars, and moments of chaos. But what’s happening inside the Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre isn’t normal turbulence. It’s institutional decay disguised as discipline. Let’s be clear: what’s unfolding inside the halls of Ottawa isn’t strategy — it’s rot.
Sharan Kaur: What Poilievre’s accusations against Trudeau, RCMP reveal about his leadership
Poilievre, wrong on facts again, this time about jobs By Tom Parkin October 15th,2025 BURLINGTON, ON Unemployment is up in Canada, most sharply in Ontario, where joblessness has gone from 5.1 per cent to …
Sharan Kaur: Ontario Liberals need new blood, not recycled names
There is increasing speculation within the Ontario Liberal Party about the timing of its leadership race to replace Bonnie Crombie. Some executive members are advocating for a swift contest, while others are arguing for a longer timeline to attract a more diverse slate of candidates. Opinions differ, with some favouring a sitting member as the new leader, while others insist that fresh perspectives are essential to revive the party from its prolonged state of stagnation.
Sharan Kaur: Canada must evolve from digital colony to digital nation Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. For the past two decades, Canada has been a polite bystander in the global digital economy. We have allowed foreign technology companies to build empires on our soil, extracting value from our intellectual property and our data, while giving little back beyond sales offices and public relations campaigns.
Sharan Kaur: Poilievre pushing a toxic narrative on Canada’s foreign worker policy
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Pierre Poilievre recently proposed cancelling Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program. Why? His rationale: Young Canadians are struggling to find stable employment, and their chances are being further compromised by the ongoing influx of foreign workers.
Sharan Kaur: Carney cannot simply inherit Trudeau’s playbook. He needs to write his own. Original
Sharan Kaur served as the deputy chief of staff for former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is currently a principal at Navigator. Mark Carney takes office in a world that looks nothing like the one Justin Trudeau governed in. The Trudeau era, for all its ambitions, was rooted in the politics of the 2010s: climate-first mandates, progressive policy, and a deep faith in multilateralism. But in 2025, the global stage has shifted.
Navigating Nuance: Carney’s Bold Diplomatic Shift at the G7
In an increasingly uncertain world, particularly in the wake of recession-inducing anxieties unleashed by fluctuating U.S. policies, Carney's invitation underscores the need for Canada to broaden its diplomatic outreach. We live in a world where issues are often polarized into stark binaries of right and wrong, good and evil. While such distinctions can provide comfort, they frequently fall short of capturing the nuances of global geopolitics.
Sharan Kaur: I witnessed the toxicity of Trudeau's PMO firsthand
Skip to Content Advertisement 1 As Bill Morneau's deputy chief of staff, I saw how Liberal staffers engineer behind-the-scenes leaks to undermine inconvenient ministers Article content Monday morning began with truly shocking news, and what may be the final nail in the Liberal coffin: the resignation of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland as deputy prime minister and minister of finance.
Sharan Kaur: Saudi Arabia has real problems, but boycotting it undermines the progress it's made
Advertisement 1 While far from perfect, the world must recognize that the kingdom has made profound changes in a very short period of time • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article content To those watching closely, the pace of Saudi Arabia’s generational shift in culture, perspective and policy is astonishing.
Malaysia is moving ahead with targeted subsidy reforms: Ahmad Maslan
bt@nst.com.my Malaysia is moving forward with targeted subsidy reforms that are designed to save billions of ringgit a year, said Deputy Finance Minister 1 Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan. He reiterated that the implementation framework for targeted subsidies is currently 75 per cent complete. Ahmad Maslan said that the framework for subsidy restructuring may be revealed this year when the 2024 Budget is presented. "One key challenge will be to formulate a foolproof and effective subsidy mechanism.
Opinion | Building transit shouldn’t be dependent on a localized issue — such as trees
Building a world-class city shouldn’t be hard when you live in a G7 country. I like to think of myself as a reasonable and rational Torontonian — a centrist in all ways. An urban planner by training, I ran far away from the profession in my younger years to save myself the disappointment that comes with trying to plan and build a livable city in a climate full of nimbyism and irrational politics.
Steve Smith ruled out of third Ashes Test - Times of India
Australia batsman Steve Smith has been ruled out of the third Test at Headingley due to the concussion he suffered at Lord's, Cricket Australia said on Tuesday. Highlights Steve Smith was struck by a Jofra Archer bouncer in the first innings at Lords and was replaced by 'concussion sub' Marnus Labuschagne for the second innings Smith made two centuries in the first Test at Edgbaston Steve Smith.
Indian team keeps Navdeep Saini as cover for Test series against West Indies - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Impressed with his skill-set, the Indian team management has decided to keep speedster Navdeep Saini as a net bowler for the two-Test series against the West Indies, aiming to groom him for future red-ball assignments. Saini, who plays domestic cricket for Delhi, made his T20 International debut against the West Indies in Florida and won the man of the match award in his maiden appearance.
Lisa Haydon announces second pregnancy by sharing a beautiful post which reads 'Party of four on the way' - Times of India
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J&K: Indian Army hits Pak post opposite Rajouri sector | India News - Times of India
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Hong Kong's divide: One protest for democracy, one for China
Pro-democracy protesters gather for a march in Hong Kong on Aug 17, 2019. Another weekend of protests is under...Read More HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters marched on one side of Hong Kong's famous harbor on Saturday to demand the government heed their demands. Across the water, a pro-government rally called for an end to the often violent protests.
Torrential rains lash northern states, alert sounded in Punjab | India News - Times of India
SHIMLA/JAIPUR/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Heavy rains lashed northern states with an alert sounded in Punjab following the release of excess water from Bhakra dam and the Yamuna nearing the danger mark in Delhi on Saturday, while normalcy was slowly returning to flood-ravaged Kerala, where so far 113 people have lost their lives. Andhra Pradesh too received heavy showers, with a swollen Krishna river leaving 87 villages and hundreds of acres of farm land under a sheet of water in two districts.
Qureshi criticises defence minister Rajnath Singh for his remarks on nuclear weapons | India News - Times of India
PTI | Updated: Aug 17, 2019, 17:51 IST Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on Aug.
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