Wrongfully convicted Halifax man’s case sat on Wilson-Raybould’s desk for months | CBC News
Did the PMO direct the CBC to sully Wilson-Raybould’s name?
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Conservatives plan to mass-text voters in 4 provinces to campaign against carbon tax | CBC News
Isn’t there laws against spamming?
Not illegal, but controversial
Fenwick McKelvey, a media and communications professor at Concordia University, said that the Conservatives’ mass-texting plan is perfectly legal — but it does raise some questions.
“Just because there’s a technical innovation, it doesn’t mean the parties should actually be doing that,” he said.
“I think there’s a real question here about whether setting up mass unsolicited text messages is a really good way of getting people engaged in politics.”
Votes in B.C. and P.E.I. give the Greens two shots at making history | CBC News
So the Greens now find themselves in a promising position, with an upcoming byelection in a winnable riding that could happen days after the party grabs headlines with a historic provincial breakthrough. That would give the Greens something they’ve never before had heading into a federal election: momentum.
Liberals defeat opposition request for ethics committee study of SNC-Lavalin scandal
The Liberal majority on the committee voted down a motion backed by
Conservatives and New Democrats that would have seen former attorney
general Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board president Jane
Philpott testify about the controversy.
Conservatives and New Democrats that would have seen former attorney
general Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board president Jane
Philpott testify about the controversy.
“The coverup continues,” Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said after the meeting ended.
Inuit class-action lawsuit to allege racism in Canada’s health-care system | CBC News
Lawyers known for their representation
of Indigenous northerners are preparing a class-action lawsuit on behalf
of Inuit who have faced discrimination in Canada’s health-care system.
of Indigenous northerners are preparing a class-action lawsuit on behalf
of Inuit who have faced discrimination in Canada’s health-care system.
If the lawsuit proceeds, it is expected to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
The
civil suit would represent Inuit discriminated against while in care in
southern facilities outside Nunavut, and in some cases the Northwest
Territories. The suit may expand to include discrimination in the Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit, and could include First Nations and Métis claimants.