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Joan Bryden

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Stefanie Green,

Doctor describes providing medical assistance in dying in new book

After more than 20 years delivering babies into the world, Dr. Stefanie Green decided to specialize in delivering suffering people out of it.
News | March 21st 2022

Trudeau counting on opposition allies to prevent Conservative obstructionism

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is counting on the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP to help his minority Liberal government get things done in the face of what he anticipates will be systematic obstructionism by the Conservatives.
News | January 31st 2022

Ottawa police gear up for possible violence as trucker convoy heads to the capital

Chief Peter Sloly told the police services board Wednesday that he is working with the RCMP and intelligence bodies to prepare for the protests against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.
News | January 27th 2022

Transport minister calls BS on supply chain claims from some un-vaxxed truckers

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is assuring Canadians there's no reason to fear food shortages will result from a small minority of truck drivers refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate in order to cross the Canada-U.S. border.
News | January 26th 2022
Justin Trudeau,

Trudeau has faced multiple crises as PM and 2022 looks no better

Now he's heading into the first full year of his third mandate faced with what public health experts fear will be the worst wave yet of the pandemic, fuelled by the highly contagious Omicron variant.
News, Politics | December 23rd 2021

Tories boycott security committee over fired scientists affair

The Conservative leader pulled his party's MPs from the committee last spring to protest the Liberal government's refusal to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest security laboratory.
News, Politics | December 21st 2021
Anthony Rota,

Commons Speaker dishes on politics of lab scientists firing dispute

Anthony Rota didn't relish being the first Speaker in more than a century to publicly rebuke a veteran civil servant for doing what he believed was his legally required duty.
News, Politics | December 20th 2021
Chrystia Freeland,

Senators pass pandemic aid bill

The Senate gave quick approval on Thursday, December 16, 2021, to a new round of pandemic aid after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made a pre-Christmas plea to rubber-stamp the help and promised that benefits would flow quickly to businesses and workers in need.
News, Politics | December 17th 2021

New COVID fears prompt Liberals to limit number of MPs in Commons

The lightning spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant is prompting federal politicians to reconsider the wisdom of having several hundred MPs crammed together in the House of Commons.
Coronavirus in Canada
Politics | December 15th 2021
Seamus O'Regan,

Government might tweak paid sick leave bill but wants to pass it quickly

Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says the government is open to amending legislation that would provide 10 days of paid sick leave for federally regulated workers.
News, Politics | December 14th 2021
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