MPs blame Tory Genuis for stalling House Foreign Affairs Committee reproductive health study
MPs say the work on the 12-member Foreign Affairs Committee has slowed to a crawl due to the filibustering of one lone member: Garnett Genuis.
China’s interference in our elections is no surprise
While Canada has always practised ‘strategic engagement’ with China due to its economic importance, there have long been warnings of its malicious intent.
Greater regulation of political party nomination contests needed to prevent foreign, domestic election interference: Democracy Watch
The watchdog organization and a former would-be Liberal candidate are calling for stricter regulations on third-party registration and disclosures, and enforcement of rules on where and when nomination contests are held.
Poor vetting no excuse for Anderson meeting, say politicos
‘When you end up in a meeting with someone controversial, it’s not an accident,’ says former NDP staffer Cameron Holmstrom.
Former U.S. president Carter hailed for his ‘honesty’ and ‘enormous decency’
Canada-U.S. relations were ‘as good as one can hope between two close countries during [Jimmy] Carter’s time’ as the American president, says former Pierre Trudeau cabinet minister Marc Lalonde.
Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist
The Liberals’ latest attempt at modernizing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Bill C-27, has only made it to its second reading nine months after being introduced.
Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed
The current information landscape is a feedback loop where ‘you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free lunacy,’ says health misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield.
It’s on all of us to curb anti-democratic trends
Programs and initiatives that are context-dependent, local, and plentiful provide alternatives to the digital divide and our growing polarization through action and collective power.
A foreign interference registry would protect Canadians from the long reach of threats abroad
Diaspora communities are often the victims of foreign intimidation and interference actions, with fear of retaliation often causing people to self-censor, even in Canada.
Why I’m not hyperventilating over China’s alleged interference in Canadian elections
To be sure, getting to the bottom of potential foreign influence on Canadian politics is an important matter. But no one should pretend that the people pushing hardest for a public inquiry are doing so for reasons less noble than saving our democracy.
