Everyone should be able to go to work without fear of getting sick: Ottawa reader
No worker should be injured, made sick, or die just because they had to make a living. In this pandemic, going to work sick could be hazardous, but 58 per cent of Canadians don’t have access to paid sick leave through their employer. Current workplace health and safety provisions are failing us. The pandemic has […]
Time to fix the asylum-seeker double standard
“Is our blood different than the Ukrainians?” That was the question former Afghan Canadian Armed Forced interpreter Ahmad Shah Sayed asked the House Special Committee on the Situation in Afghanistan on April 11. And for all of the movements and rhetoric from the federal government in the months since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan […]
Pandemic heightens urgency for Canada Health Transfers reform
With the federal government having unveiled its spending plan for the coming year, the conversation between the federal government and the provincial and territorial governments over Canada Health Transfers (CHT) will be taking on a new urgency. The past two years of fighting the relentless COVID-19 pandemic have revealed real cracks in our health-care system […]
Legacy media players shouldn’t expect smooth switch to digital
OTTAWA—This week marks my three-year anniversary writing for the Hill Times and five years of writing in general, in addition to five years of producing, writing, recording, and curating political and pop culture content for the Bad + Bitchy podcast. In this time, the news media landscape has shifted its tectonic plates to a decentralized […]
Global’s Hill bureau recognized for coverage of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces
The Canadian Journalism Foundation has announced that Mercedes Stephenson, Amanda Connolly, and Marc-André Cossette of Global News are among the finalists for this year’s Landsberg Award for their coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against high-ranking Canadian military officials. Their coverage sparked a reckoning about accountability and sexual misconduct within the military. The Landsberg Award, named […]
Indigenous languages on federal ballots could help boost turnout, PROC hears
Directly or indirectly, including Indigenous languages on federal ballots could help to boost Indigenous voter turnout, argue witnesses appearing as part of the House Affairs Committee’s ongoing study into the prospect. But some suggest resources would be better allocated elsewhere. “Having the Inuit language on ballots would help in increasing the voter turnout,” Nunavut Languages […]
NDP Leader Singh pitches a better deal for Canadians on April 21
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 House Not Sitting—The House of Commons will return on April 25-May 20. It will break from May 23-27, and will sit May 30-June 23. It will break for the summer on June 23 and will return on Sept. 19 and will sit Sept. 19-Oct. 7, will break for one week, Oct. 10-Oct. […]
What’s the real reason for wanting a dentist on call?
Canada is buying military equipment for Ukraine and one really has to wonder why Canada has such a poor record of purchasing things here for our own troops? Who will buy Canada’s military-required hardware when Canada needs it? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his socialist comrades seem to have moved off the page where Canada […]
Ford gambling on Ontarians’ health in pre-election dice roll
OTTAWA—Whatever you can say about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s handling of the pandemic, it clearly didn’t have anything to do with equal treatment of his province’s population. It emerged last year that private schools had been huge beneficiaries when the Ford government began handing out rapid tests (paid for by federal taxpayers) as Ontarians struggled with […]
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