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Liberals wrap up a busy weekend of networking and policy
Politics This Morning: House to debate motion expanding scope of firearms bill
Plus, Canada’s largest pension funds to answer questions at committee about their investments in China, amid geopolitical tensions and human rights concerns.
de Adder’s Take: 05-08-2023
The Walrus Talks to host big discussion on climate change May 11 at National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
MONDAY, MAY 8 House Sitting—The House is sitting (May 8-19). It will adjourn on Friday, May 19, for one week and will return again on Monday, May 29. It will sit for four consecutive weeks (May 29-June 23). It’s scheduled to adjourn for the summer on June 23. It will break for 12 weeks (June […]
NDP MP Charlie Angus makes sure he’s got some good tunes in hand when he hunkers down in the capital
Plus, journalist Kyle Duggan joins Politico Canada after a few years in Japan, and former Jean Chrétien-era cabinet minister Dave Dingwall to host Cape Breton Capers shindig at Queen Street Fare.
Eisler probes Saskatchewan’s political and economic change in From Left to Right
The following is an excerpt from Dale Eisler’s book, From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transformation, published by the University of Regina Press, and nominated by the Writers’ Trust as one of the best political books of the year.
O’Kane lifts the lid on Google’s failure to build a city of the future on Toronto’s waterfront
The following is an excerpt from Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, by Josh O’Kane, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
More than a number: a daughter’s search for her Inuit grandmother identified only by digits on a disc under Canada’s Eskimo Identification system
Norma Dunning explores the impact of the Eskimo Disk System in her book, Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother.
Separate, not equal: the story of Canada in a Manitoba valley
The following is an excerpt from Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation, by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii). The two authors explore the history of two Prairie communities: one Indigenous, one non-Indigenous living side by side, separate and unequal, and what it means for the rest of us.
