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The B.C. Liberal leadership race will be a battle for the soul of a party which insiders say is in desperate need of renewal after October’s crushing election defeat to the NDP.
With 11 months until the leadership vote, few have officially declared they are running. But potential candidates include party faithful and an anti-establishment right-wing YouTuber vowing to fight attempts to block him from the race.
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Sometimes, life deals you a hand you never saw coming, leaving you with decisions you hoped you’d never have to make.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney knows what that’s like. While he took the job in 2019, when the province’s finances were already a mess, he had no idea there would soon be a pandemic with which to contend.
A petition from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been delivered to the federal government calling for putting an end to the policy that allows fo.
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The top public health officials in Southwestern Ontario pulled in hundreds of thousands in overtime pay last year for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At least two of the region’s medical officers of health received more than $100,000 each in overtime, including Middlesex-London’s top public health doctor, Chris Mackie, and Haldimand-Norfolk’s Shanker Nesathurai.
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The overtime pay is part of a provincial program to compensate local health units for extraordinary expenses incurred relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.