J.D. Tuccille: Americans no longer trust the news media. Bari Weiss is here to save it

As amusing as former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley’s public tantrum was after his firing from CBS News, it’s impossible to know whether the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, will succeed in her mission to remake and revive the once-respected media colossus. Even less clear is whether she could help CNN, which rumour has it she…

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Poilievre gets some good news — but it’s not about the Conservatives

Pollsters said it’s likely that the NDP’s new leader, Avi Lewis, is also having an effect on the party’s poll numbers. Andrew Enns, executive vice-president for polling firm Leger, said Lewis’s controversial idea about government-run grocery stores as a remedy for rising food prices, for example, is at least presenting a new idea and getting his party some attention. “It’d be hard to take that…

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