‘No one-size-fits-all approach’: House committee tackles improving Indigenous graduation rates
‘Self-determination is the key out of this mess,’ said Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu during her March 6 committee appearance.
Politics This Morning: PROC wrangling continues
Plus, news for campaign number-crunchers.
Nuclear Waste Management Organization taking extra year to pick storage site as it seeks local support
The industry-funded non-profit says Ontario sites in Ignace and South Bruce both meet technical and scientific requirements for a deep geological repository for high-level nuclear waste, but the project will only go ahead with ‘informed and willing hosts.’
Inquiries into China’s meddling must not discourage minorities from taking part in Canadian democracy, says Alberta Liberal MP Chahal
Election volunteers who took part in campaigns suspected of Chinese meddling should be interviewed to get the relevant facts, says Guy Saint-Jacques, former Canadian ambassador to China.
Public inquiry ‘not useful’ to investigate foreign interference, it could harm international relations, national defence, national security, says Wark
Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it’s been tracked, and the steps it’s taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the ‘wrong issues.’ Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.
Incumbent Liberal MPs who failed to meet March 1 nominations deadline could get extensions, says Liberal Party
Based on transposition of votes from the last election to the newly proposed boundaries, if everyone voted the same way they did in 2021, the Liberals would still win a minority with 157 seats, the Conservatives 126, the Bloc 34, the NDP 24 and the Greens two seats, according to an analysis by Kyle Hutton.
‘Veterans are not getting the services they need’: vets, mental health clinicians, and Veterans Affairs union sound alarm over new rehab services contract
Veterans Affairs’ assistant deputy minister Steven Harris says the department is still migrating veterans from the old contract into the new system, and it will take until summer to get everything running.
End-of-life rights advocates prioritize advanced requests for medically-assisted death, following passing of Bill C-39
Bill C-39 adds another year before Canada’s MAID regime expands to allow individuals suffering solely from mental illness to request medically assisted death.
Politics This Morning: Mary Ng leads women’s trade mission to the UK
Plus, Ginette Petitpas Taylor flies the flag in Boston for Atlantic Canada’s fish and seafood sector.
Pause in interest rate hikes offers no ‘breather’ to Liberals politically, says pollster
The Conservative and NDP finance critics say the ‘relentless interest hikes’ and rising mortgage rates are creating ‘hardship’ for Canadians, and urge the government to look to other avenues to fight inflation.
