Having duly wrapped up the opening round of pre-budget negotiations with his opposition counterparts, Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau will fire up his webcam to join his Liberal colleagues at their weekly virtual caucus confab before heading to the House of Commons to field questions from across the aisle. (2 PM)
Given the timing, he’ll likely be looking for any opportunity to put
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole on the defensive over Saskatchewan backbench MP
Cathay Wagantall’s proposal to effectively criminalize sex-selective abortions by making it an offence for a medical practitioner to perform the procedure if they know that it is being sought “solely on the grounds of the child’s genetic sex.” which will hit the House floor for its first hour of debate this afternoon.
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Extremely rare cases of blood clots are hampering the rollout of two COVID-19 vaccines that Canada has purchased, as the country recorded its first case of the side effect from the AstraZeneca injection and the U.S. suspended use of the Johnson & Johnson version.
Health Canada said a Quebec woman is recovering from a blood clot after she had received the version of the AstraZeneca vaccine that is made in India and sold under the name Covishield.
Having duly wrapped up the opening round of pre-budget negotiations with his opposition counterparts, Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau will fire up his webcam to join his Liberal colleagues at their weekly virtual caucus confab before heading to the House of Commons to field questions from across the aisle. (2 PM)
Given the timing, he’ll likely be looking for any opportunity to put
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole on the defensive over Saskatchewan backbench MP
Cathay Wagantall’s proposal to effectively criminalize sex-selective abortions by making it an offence for a medical practitioner to perform the procedure if they know that it is being sought “solely on the grounds of the child’s genetic sex.” which will hit the House floor for its first hour of debate this afternoon.
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It is nothing if not rich in irony, this latest dramatic plot twist in the ongoing “world stage” soap opera chronicling the embarrassing ups and downs of the Trudeau government’s unrequited affections for Chinese strongman Xi Jinping. Of all people, Taiwan’s heroic president, the 64-year-old feminist and liberal Tsai Ing-wen, has been forced to endure the misfortune of being dragged into the script for this week’s episode.
Of all people: President Tsai is precisely the kind of dynamic middle-power personality the Trudeau Liberals, if we were to take them at their word about what they claim to stand for, would be falling all over themselves to be seen with. Nevertheless, in the last remaining setting at which Canada can still claim some international prestige the Halifax International Security Forum (HFX), now in its 11th year Team Trudeau has beclowned itself again, and this time it’s at Tsai’s expense.
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It is nothing if not rich in irony, this latest dramatic plot twist in the ongoing “world stage” soap opera chronicling the embarrassing ups and downs of the Trudeau government’s unrequited affections for Chinese strongman Xi Jinping. Of all people, Taiwan’s heroic president, the 64-year-old feminist and liberal Tsai Ing-wen, has been forced to endure the misfortune of being dragged into the script for this week’s episode.
Of all people: President Tsai is precisely the kind of dynamic middle-power personality the Trudeau Liberals, if we were to take them at their word about what they claim to stand for, would be falling all over themselves to be seen with. Nevertheless, in the last remaining setting at which Canada can still claim some international prestige the Halifax International Security Forum (HFX), now in its 11th year Team Trudeau has beclowned itself again, and this time it’s at President Tsai’s expense.