For oral health, prevention is key
The statistics are clear: Canadians between the ages of 60 and 79 are 40 per cent less likely to have private dental insurance compared to the general population. As a result, older Canadians tend to be less frequent users of oral care services, with long-term care residents in particular experiencing a high rate of untreated […]
Voters have their minds made up on SNC, with or without Dion’s report
The gift that keeps on giving. Opposition parties are salivating at the summer fallout from the damning ethic commissioner‘s report into the prime minister’s actions in support of SNC-Lavalin’s pursuit of a deferred prosecution agreement. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer both pounced on the findings, with Singh suggesting the prime minister […]
Anti-abortion group RightNow on cross-country tour to recruit volunteers for anti-abortion candidates
An anti-abortion political action group, RightNow, is going across the country trying to recruit volunteers to work on the campaigns of anti-abortion candidates, despite the fact that the leaders of every major party have said they will not reopen the abortion debate after the election. RightNow hosts training sessions that “essentially go over the numbers, […]
Political aides exit offices of ministers Freeland, Carr
The pre-campaign summer staff shake-up continues, with a couple of recent political staff departures for both Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr. Deputy director of parliamentary affairs and policy adviser Sebastian Cooper bade farewell to Ms. Freeland’s office at the beginning of July. Mr. Cooper had been working in […]
Ethics report puts onus on Canadians to punish abuse of power
There is an old saying that great books read you, you don’t read them. So when someone says Finnegan’s Wake is a crummy book, they are not saying that James Joyce can’t write. They are recording the fact that their reading ability has exceeded its limits. The same can be said of political scandals. Much […]
New Army Commander Wayne Eyre to be promoted in Parliament Hill ceremony
Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre will take the reins of the Canadian Army during a change of command ceremony on Parliament Hill on Aug. 20. Lt.-Gen. Eyre will take over the command from Lt.-Gen. Jean-Marc Lanthier. In June, Lt.-Gen. Eyre was appointed the head of Military Personnel Command. He was previously the first non-American to serve as […]
Beware the Twitter Sapiens
Maybe it’s just me, but I think the nature of humanity is being dramatically altered by Twitter. As a matter of fact, I’d say people who spend too much time on this particular social media platform face the risk of being transformed into what I call “Twitter sapiens.” And this is not a good thing […]
Liberals, Tories in dead heat just before ethics report released: poll
The Conservatives were even with the governing Liberals in support among Canadians in the days leading up to the release of Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s report that found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had broken the Conflict of Interest Act for a second time, suggests a Campaign Research poll. The online poll asked 2,365 adults the […]
If the RCMP comes in, ‘we’re cooked’ in the upcoming election, say some worried Liberal MPs
An RCMP investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair would “kill” the Liberal party’s re-election chances in the upcoming campaign if it were to become known to the public, say some Liberals, speaking in the days after Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion issued a report that said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had broken the law spelled out in […]
Opposition MPs call on China to respect the ‘one country, two systems’ agreement
A Conservative and an NDP MP are calling for the Chinese government to respect the “one country, two systems” agreement that governed the reunification of Hong Kong to China. “When the handover took place with Hong Kong, China actually promised not just Britain, but the rest of the world, that they would respect the ‘one […]
