“Canadians don’t like to hear it, and I don’t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,” newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul said during a public conversation via Zoom on Thursday.

The community group that hosted Monday’s virtual debate wanted to hear about local concerns such as homelessness, housing, school, jobs and support for immigration and immigrants. Of the four major parties, only the Greens' new Leader Annamie Paul and NDP candidate Brian Chang showed up.

The two federal byelections underway in Toronto will continue even as cases of COVID-19 soar in the city, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.

“You get to a point where you say, 'We do not have the conditions for a free and fair and democratic election,'" says the new Green leader.