iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Feb 11, 2021 6:01am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join Health Minister Patty Hajdu for a virtual roundtable with health workers. (Photo via Twitter @JustinTrudeau)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join
Health Minister Patty Hajdu for a “virtual roundtable discussion” that, as per the advisory, will include “healthcare professionals and advocates from across the country” and will be livesteamed on his official Twitter account. (1:30 PM)
Later this evening, he’ll fire up his webcam once again for an online celebration of the Lunar New Year, with
Small Business Minister Mary Ng and a trio of Greater Toronto Area Liberal MPs
POLITICO The group and its members have openly encouraged, planned, and conducted violent activities, the government said.
Members of the Proud Boys join Donald Trump supporters as they protest the election outside the Colorado State Capitol. | Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
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OTTAWA Canada has branded
the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, saying its members “played a pivotal role” in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair added the Proud Boys, which his department labeled a “neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence,” and 12 other groups to the terrorist list.
Morning Brief: Feds plan to co-develop new Indigenous health legislation By iPolitics. Published on Jan 28, 2021 5:59am The meetings on anti-Indigenous racism in health care are being held after the death of Joyce Echaquan in a Quebec hospital last year. (Wikimedia Commons)
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New Indigenous health laws to be announced: The government will announce plans to co-develop new legislation to overhaul Indigenous health care, the CBC reports. The announcement will follow two days of virtual discussions on how to eliminate anti-Indigenous racism in the health care system, and will aim to ensure Indigenous control over the development and delivery of s
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iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Jan 25, 2021 6:01am The House of Commons’ mace boards a bus outside West Block on the wasy to the Senate for the speech from the throne in Ottawa on Sept. 23, 2020. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
With just a few hours to go until the House of Commons reopens for business after a month-long winter hiatus, the parties are reportedly still working out the logistics of returning to regular parliamentary programming amid a second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks across the country.
New Democrat House leader Peter Julian seemed all but certain that a deal would be reached to temporarily move to an online-only virtual format, although the Bloc Québécois indicated that they would prefer to return to the hybrid model adopted last fall, which allowed for a limited number of MPs and party leaders to attend proceedings in person with the majority participating via video.