A green recovery, wealth taxes, affordable housing, women's place in the economic recovery are some of the areas where the Liberals and NDP will seek to differentiate themselves from one another.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at the 2018 Halifax Liberal Convention. The 2021 Liberal convention is being held entirely online because of the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Munster
The Liberal and NDP conventions are set to go head to head this week, as they look to present and debate a handful of similar policy proposals to issues preoccupying left-leaning voters at their duelling virtual conventions.
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Liberal MP Adam Vaughan wants the Doug Ford government to publicly release the allocation criteria used for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in different regions of Ontario.
The government must keep workers on the job, say business lobby groups. The longshoremen's union says the Liberals should publicly rule out the use of back-to-work legislation.
Nearly 2,700 people in Canada died from an opioid-related overdose between April 2020 and September 2020, according to the Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses.
Barring residents who haven’t been vaccinated from travelling to another province may be the unlikeliest of scenarios, but Prof. Krishnamurthy says he sees certificates being used to confer benefits to pass holders.
The political instinct is to ‘accept no risk’ when solving a problem, but that’s not how the ‘real world of medicine’ works, says former emergency-room doctor and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski.
Last July, a landmark Federal Court ruling declared the 17-year-old refugee pact violated the Charter. Today, the appeal court disagreed, and so the treaty will remain in effect.