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Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief electoral officer has called for Saturday’s provincial election to be delayed in 18 ridings because of a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases
Uncertainty surrounds election delay in Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Leader Andrew Furey, left to right, Progressive Conservative Leader Ches Crosbie and NDP Leader Alison Coffin sit prior to the start of their televised debate from the floor of the House of Assembly in St. John's N.L. on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly February 11, 2021 - 12:20 PM ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is entering uncharted legal territory as the province's chief electoral officer has called for Saturday's provincial election to be delayed ...
Pedestrians walk down Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary. Photo by Bernard Spragg/Flickr If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the Conservative Party of Canada’s attitude towards the federal carbon tax and rebate, which was updated last week with an ambitious schedule of increases that will culminate in a $170-per-tonne carbon price by 2030. Even though they lost last year’s election on the back of a failed attempt to depict the carbon tax as a “job killing” measure, they still refuse to embrace carbon pricing, an idea that originally came from their own...
Is Canadian Law Better Equipped to Handle Disinformation? The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. (Joanne Clifford, https://tinyurl.com/y2xaoraf; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) On Oct. 13, before President Trump—with only falsehoods as ammunition—began live-tweeting his attempt to overturn an election he lost, Emily Bazelon published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “Free Speech Will Save Our Democracy: The First Amendment in the Age of Disinformation.” In this piece, Bazelon presents—and questions—the American free speech jurispr...