Sandy Garossino

National Affairs Columnist Vancouver English

Analysis, Opinion, Energy, Politics, Culture

Sandy Garossino is a former Crown prosecutor and prominent media commentator, whose bold writing 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. She is the winner of 'Best Column' in Canada in the 2016 Canadian Online Publishing Association's awards, and was a finalist for the Jack Webster Award for 'Best Column' in 2019.

She is a frequent guest on radio and television shows, providing analysis on recent political events from Canadaland to Global TV

Sandy Garossino interviews Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Ottawa in 2018

90 Articles

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The capture of Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat is the GOP's best chance to block Democratic legislation over health care, abortion rights, marriage equality, immigration, gun and social media regulations, election finance reform, tax and climate change reforms.

Opinion

U.S. Election 2020

By Sandy Garossino | Opinion | September 22nd 2020

U.S. strong-armed Canada into calamitous Meng strategy

The moment President Trump bartered Meng Wanzhou for a trade deal, he turned our justice system into his personal hostage-keeper.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino | Opinion | June 30th 2020

Stephen Harper's power dissolves

From the wings, Stephen Harper may still control his chastened party, but Canadians have moved on.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino | Opinion | May 27th 2020

Where's Kenney's War Room money really going?

This is not adding up.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino | Opinion | February 13th 2020

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Kobe Bryant, an LA Story

Was it too much to ask that the family make it through just one day of unimaginable grief without someone dredging that up? In 2020, yes it was.

Opinion

By Sandy Garossino | Opinion | January 29th 2020

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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Analysis, Energy, Politics | October 3rd 2019