The Speech from the Throne marks the start of another session of Parliament and allows the government of the day to lay out its agenda for the public. Unfortunately, throne speeches ultimately mean very little the day after they are delivered, but that hasn’t stopped news outlets from going crazy today in an attempt to make the most of the speech.
After revamping the rules on licensing for legal marijuana distribution, Health Canada awarded the first two new licenses to a Saskatoon firm called Prairie Plant Systems Inc., which sounds exactly like the covert name for a drug-running operation.
Related: Jason Kenney apparently does not understand the ramifications of his own government’s policies.
Like so many events in the adult world, a fundraiser at the NDP’s convention in April was a messy, alcohol-soaked evening. Supervisors left early without telling their underlings, other managers refused to help out said underlings because it wasn’t “their event,” a young staffer was harassed by an older, more politically connected man and the staffer was later reprimanded for being harassed.
A recent report studying Canadians’ political engagement came to the unsurprising conclusion that our country’s youth have no patience for things like joining political parties and contacting their elected officials. In today’s fast-food, self-serve, 3G-WiFi-LTE world, there’s no time to attend political conventions and stump for MPs.
Miles Howe, who has been writing for Media Co-op about “the struggle against seismic testing related to shale gas exploration in New Brunswick” for several weeks, was arrested earlier today as he attempted to enter a testing site with APTN reporter Jorge Barrera.
In addition to the CSEC program we still know next to nothing about, there are an unknown number of other programs we actually know nothing about.
Edmonton-St. Albert Member of Parliament Brent Rathgeber will undoubtedly become the latest in a string of Canadian political figures to incur the wrath of the public. After speaking publicly and candidly about the issues he’s had with the federal government and failing to see a resolution, Rathgeber resigned from the Conservative caucus Wednesday evening.
While the bulk of Canadian political coverage in the last week has been split between drug dealing in Toronto and corrupt senators in Ottawa, Winnipeg’s mayor is doing his darndest not to be left in the dust.
In addition to pulling out of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, the Harper government has decided to stop putting money into the community pastures that are keeping the prairies from turning into Canada’s Sahara.
In a scenario so perfect it almost seems scripted, a fellow Porter flight passenger handed Justin Trudeau a note asking if Trudeau could “really beat Stephen Harper.” What’s a man to do?
But not fact-checking!
Saskatchewan: land of living skies, butt of many jokes, and home to the three highest-spending members of the Canadian Senate.
German environmental group Global Nature Fund has singled out Lake Winnipeg, Canada’s sixth largest freshwater lake, as the world’s Threatened Lake of 2013. This dubious honour has previously been held by poisoned lakes in Colombia and Peru.
The nationwide blockades begun on Wednesday’s “national day of action” for Idle No More are doing exactly what they were intended to do: bring people’s attention to the gravity of Aboriginal frustrations. Blockading railways, highways and national borders is a tricky matter because of the debate around the practice and whether or not it constitutes a form of violence.
