CRTC must ‘look around the corner’ in changing digital landscape, says new chair who wants to ‘meet the needs of Canadians’
Telecom observers are tentatively pleased by the selection of new Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chair Vicky Eatrides, but say the views of Canadians will be ‘based on results.’
Potential Canada-Ecuador trade pact to navigate tricky investment protections field
Controversial ISDS provisions are trumpeted for protecting Canadian foreign investments, but are panned for allowing companies to sue countries.
Politics This Morning: Trudeau gives Hussen a pass
Plus, Scoffield on the move, and a DM retires.
‘There’s power in numbers’: Almost 50 Canadian MPs (so far) have sponsored detained Iranians
More than 70 Iranian men, women, and teens detained by the Iranian regime, many facing death sentences, have been politically sponsored by Liberal, Conservative, and NDP MPs.
‘Structural failures’ and lingering trauma top of mind as convoy anniversary nears, say MPs, advocates
The Ottawa Police Service says it’s putting the kibosh on any vehicle-based protests in the city ahead of the Jan. 28 one-year anniversary of the day the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ rolled into town, as multiple inquiry bodies ready their reports on the event ended by the Emergencies Act.
Provincial shifts towards health care privatization ‘100 per cent the wrong way to go,’ says NDP MP Davies
Along with concern over Ontario’s announced plan to fund private clinics, Green MP Mike Morrice wants MPs to review loopholes in the current Canada Health Act that enable companies to charge for health services.
Library of Parliament joint committee hasn’t met in nearly four years
Under the Parliament of Canada Act, the Library of Parliament Joint Committee is supposed to help the Speakers of the House of Commons and Senate direct the library’s operations.
Trudeau calls Ford’s health-care changes an ‘innovation,’ but some Ontario Liberal MPs call it ‘American’-style health care ‘fundamentally’ opposed to Canadian values
Liberal MP Michael Coteau says that by introducing a for-profit element in Ontario’s health-care system, patients’ quality of care could decrease as ‘profits are put before patients’ in some private sector organizations.
Politics This Morning: Gearing up, or hunkering down?
Plus, the future of women and work, at the Westin.
Longform Substacks offer MPs like Rempel Garner, O’Toole, a chance to exercise ‘thought leadership’
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner praises Substack as the ‘anti-Twitter,’ but a Carleton journalism professor says MPs could use the platform to avoid direct accountability.
