Federal opposition parties are making their priorities known ahead of the government’s fall fiscal update, with the Conservatives calling for the Liberals to curb new spending and the NDP raising concerns about a potential recession. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the fall economic statement on Thursday in the House of Commons, which will shed…
Conservatives Say No New Spending, NDP Voice Recession Worries Ahead of Fiscal Update
Teachers, Staff Say Schools Trained Them to Hide Students’ Gender Identity From Parents
Teachers and staff from Texas to Florida are blowing the whistle on school districts training them to keep a children’s transgender identity a secret from parents. In Texas, past and present teachers at Conroe Independent School District (ISD) said they were told by training staff to affirm a student’s gender identity by using preferred pronouns…
Proposed Dental Benefit for Children Would Cost $703M: Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux says Ottawa’s proposed dental benefit for children under the age of 12 would cost $703 million over the next three fiscal years. Giroux released the costing in a new report today after MPs voted Wednesday to send the bill to a committee for study, putting it one step closer to becoming…
Alberta United Conservatives Head to Polls on Final Voting Day to Replace Kenney
Albertans will learn today who the new premier of the province will be. Voting is wrapping up by members of the United Conservative Party to select a successor to Premier Jason Kenney. Kenney announced in the spring he was leaving after receiving 51 percent in a party leadership vote. There are 124,000 eligible voters, many…
House Votes Down Conscience Rights Bill for Health-Care Workers
In the House of Commons on Wednesday, MPs voted down a Conservative member’s bill that would have protected the conscience rights of health-care workers unwilling to participate “directly or indirectly” in medical assistance in dying, or MAiD. Bill C-230, introduced in February by Saskatchewan Conservative MP Kelly Block, aimed to amend the Criminal Code to “make it an offence…
Dynamics of Federal Politics Poised for Change With Poilievre as Opposition Leader
News Analysis Less than a month into Pierre Poilievre’s leadership of the Conservative Party, the Liberals have introduced policy changes and new programs including an end to pandemic border restrictions and measures to help with the rising cost of living. And Poilievre is taking credit for some of them. “After constant pressure from Conservatives &…
Nikki Haley: Dragon Slayer
Commentary SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania—Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is in the process of filing a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly leaking to the press a list of donors to her nonprofit Stand for America. Last week Haley released the findings of the…
Conservatives May Support Part of the Liberal Government’s Affordability Plan on GST
The federal Conservatives opened the door on Wednesday to supporting part of the Liberal government’s affordability plan in one of their first moves with Pierre Poilievre as the new party leader. Tory MPs used their first caucus meeting since Parliament resumed sitting this week to discuss the proposal, which includes the first phase of a…
John Robson: Instead of Bickering Over Seat Distribution, Make Parliament Serve Canadians Better
September 5, 2022
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Commentary With a new census in the bag, Elections Canada has unveiled its plan to redistribute parliamentary seats to a cheery national chorus of “it’s not fair to my region.” But don’t worry. It’s also bad for democracy. The essential idea is that as some regions gain population relative to others, they should get more…
Poll: Identification as ‘Liberal’ Collapses as Blacks, Hispanics, and Non-College Voters Flee the Label
Fewer voters now identify themselves as liberal, according to a new national poll. “The Left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate … with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years,” says the report (pdf) by Morning Consult, a research firm with offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco….
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