Feds try to tackle online harms
The current bill is a softer version of the 2019 proposal because the government doesn’t want to be accused of stifling free speech. According to Arif Virani, the awful stuff will still be lawful. But now people will have to think twice before telling me to hang myself.
Can Singh woo millennials?
If the NDP is to succeed in the next federal election, it’ll have to come up with something better than a TikTok communication strategy.
The most remarkable evening I ever spent with Brian Mulroney
My admiration for the 18th prime minister grew as I learned more about how he managed a caucus and cabinet as he and his government became one of the most activist ever in Canadian history.
This just in: Eleanor Wachtel this year’s chair of prestigious International Booker Prize jury ‘the most extraordinary book club in the world’
Plus, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor named caucus chair, Huda Mukbil joins Black Class Action Secretariat advisory board, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie says farewell to the House, Phil von Finckenstein writes for The Glebe Report, Tory MP Luc Berthold celebrates hometown newspaper, Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk recently joined Unifor workers on picket line at Jamieson Vitamins, and Super Tuesday comes to Ottawa.
‘People were drawn to him’: former prime minister Brian Mulroney could rally his team and connect with rivals, say colleagues and friends at home and abroad
‘The way my father described it, he could get people pumped up like they were in the locker room before the Grey Cup or the Stanley Cup,’ said former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay.
Expected Conservative win in Monday’s Durham byelection will be measured against O’Toole’s winning margins, say political players
In Durham, the Tories have been outperforming the national party average by about a 12 per cent margin, so it remains to be seen if Jamil Jivani can meet this benchmark, says Fred DeLorey, former Conservative campaign director.
Government has to get better at doing the basic things well
To provide Canadians with the quality of programs and services they expect and deserve, the federal government needs to do six key things.
Two staff in, one out in Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s shop
Plus, there are staff updates to note in Small Business Minister Rechie Valdez’s office.
Tom Axworthy recalls Pierre Trudeau’s resignation, 40 years later
Political Ottawa, and the nation itself, would never be the same.
Pharmacare a ‘housekeeping measure’ for Liberals, while NDP seeks to ‘tell everybody’ about much needed parliamentary win: Nanos
The Liberals’ relative silence on pharmacare in recent days while NDP leader Jagmeet Singh went on the talk show circuit may be an effort to not ‘give too much oxygen’ to a story that could help their partner in the supply-and-confidence deal, said pollster Nik Nanos.
