Sandy Garossino

Sandy Garossino is a former Crown prosecutor and prominent media commentator, whose bold commentary is read by millions across North America. Her writing provides depth on topics where the media's analysis of controversial and urgent topics misses the mark. Winner of 'Best Column' in Canada in the 2016 Canadian Online Publishing Association's awards, Garossino's podcast, Judgment Call, launches soon on National Observer.

85 Articles

Exposing the Canadian oil sector’s victim complex

Part 4 of a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations.

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Politics | November 29th 2019

Tides is not the 'funding and co-ordination juggernaut' behind anti-pipeline activism

Part 3 of a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations.

Race Against Climate Change

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Politics | November 29th 2019

Alberta is the ‘whipping boy’ of foreign philanthropy and other myths

Part 2 in a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations.

Race Against Climate Change

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Politics | November 28th 2019

Jason Kenney foreign-funding conspiracy theory is false and we can prove it

Part 1 of a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations.

Race Against Climate Change

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Politics | November 28th 2019

Dismantling Jason Kenney's foreign-funding conspiracy theory

Every core tenet of the Alberta premier's paranoid policy is flatly and demonstrably false.

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Energy, Politics | October 3rd 2019

Jason Kenney and the global assault on environmentalism

Anyone who looks closely at the Alberta premier's inquiry into foreign-funded advocacy groups can clearly see it's a farce.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino in Opinion, Politics | September 13th 2019

The serious $70 BILLION climate plan you’ve heard nothing about

Cancelling the pipeline expansion wouldn't have affected emissions, but the Liberals' $70-billion climate plan will ⁠— provided they're in power long enough to implement it.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino in Opinion, Energy | June 27th 2019

Jason Kenney's shrewd canard

Jason Kenney knows perfectly well that it's all a canard, but he also knows how politics works. Avoid questions about your weak climate strategy by attacking your critics' integrity.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino in Opinion, Politics | April 25th 2019

The hidden key to the SNC-Lavalin scandal

Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis, Business, Politics | March 8th 2019

Canada's pawn in the Xi-Trump cyber game

As it happens, we probably do have a way out of this, but not through conventional diplomatic channels, writes Sandy Garossino. This mess needs to get back in front of a judge.

By Sandy Garossino in Analysis | December 20th 2018