Matt Canham

Senior reporter, federal government

Matt joined The Tribune in 2002 and has mostly covered politics, including a seven-year stint as a D.C. correspondent.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney looks up at the hillside homes near Draper as he is joined by Draper Fire Chief Clint Smith, left, and Draper Mayor Troy Walker after an announcement to establish a wildfire commission during a news conference at Little Valley Trailhead in Draper on Friday, June 18, 2021. The commission would conduct a national review of wildfire policy and make recommendations to Congress.

Fires are intensifying, and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney wants a new national strategy to fight them

By Matt Canham | June 19, 2021, 12:22 a.m.

(Patrick Semansky | The Associated Press) President Joe Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, wants the U.S. to retaliate against Moscow if cyberattacks continue.

Utah’s Chris Stewart wants Biden to unleash a cyberattack on Russia if ransomware attacks continue

By Matt Canham | June 16, 2021, 11:47 p.m.

(Christian Chavez | AP) An older section of the border wall divides Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from Sunland Park, New Mexico, top, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.

Biden gives Utah’s Hill Air Force Base $24M Trump took for border wall

By Matt Canham | June 12, 2021, 1:01 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Justin and Amy Beagley spend time with their daughters Cora, 5, and Sedona, 2, near their home in Bluffdale on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The young couple wanted to have kids shortly after they married in 2012 but worried about their finances, so they put it off a few years.

Utahns are having fewer kids. Why that may be a problem and what we should do about it.

By Matt Canham | June 11, 2021, 10:08 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Rep. John Curtis, R_Utah, at the Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Curtis is calling for the creation of a GOP caucus on climate change.

Look who’s leading the charge for a GOP climate-change caucus: a Utah Republican

By Matt Canham | June 11, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

FILE - In this May 8, 2017, file photo, is Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. President Joe Biden said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, he plans to review the Trump administration's downsizing of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments in southern Utah. Bears Ears National Monument is on lands considered sacred to Native Americans who joined environmental groups in suing when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Utah delegation wants to meet with Biden before he acts on Bears Ears, Grand Staircase

By Matt Canham | June 9, 2021, 9:13 p.m.

(Erin Scott | The New York Times) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 27, 2021. Lee and his Utah colleague, Mitt Romney, voted on opposites sides on a technology bill that takes on China.

Utah’s Mike Lee, Mitt Romney split over tech investment to take on China

By Matt Canham | June 8, 2021, 11:40 p.m.

FILE - In this June 5, 1989, file photo, a Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. Thousands of students demonstrated for democracy in Tiananmen Square. Hundreds died when the government sent in troops. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener, File)

Why did Microsoft censor images of China’s ‘tank man’? Utah’s Mitt Romney wants answers.

By Matt Canham | June 8, 2021, 8:18 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Rep. Becky Edwards visits with one of her supporters, after launching her U.S. Senate campaign against Mike Lee in the Capitol Rotunda, on Thursday, May 27, 2021.

GOP rival Becky Edwards slams Mike Lee as too ‘strident,’ says Trump was rightfully impeached

By Matt Canham | June 5, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Rep. Blake Moore talks about his experience in the Capitol on Jan. 6 during a town hall meeting at the Weber County Library North Branch in North Ogden on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.

Utah Rep. Blake Moore describes scary day at the Capitol, defends his vote for a Jan. 6 investigation

By Matt Canham | June 3, 2021, 1:00 p.m.