Sport portfolio a bright light during cabinet’s growing pains

The feds have seen the opportunity global sports performances provide to advance the country’s reputation, open doors for diplomacy and trade, and boost our global status.
Adam van Koeverden
If the prime minister and Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden lean in here they could produce some big wins from which we’d all benefit, writes Tim Powers.

OTTAWA—There was both fanfare and criticism when Prime Minister Mark Carney rolled out his second cabinet last week. In the early hours after the swearing in, the government pushed hard in noting 24 new faces in the cabinet, and argued it was smaller than former prime mini...

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