#338Canada: Doug Ford remains solidly in command

#338Canada: Doug Ford remains solidly in command

“#338Canada: Doug Ford remains solidly in command” Philippe J. Fournier: A new Mainstreet/338Canada poll shows the PC Party opening a huge lead in every region of the province over the second-place NDP Opinion polls in Canada from the past months have shown that Canadians are generally (although not unanimously) satisfied with their elected officials’ handling of…

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#A Biden-Trudeau partnership will require real work

#A Biden-Trudeau partnership will require real work

“#A Biden-Trudeau partnership will require real work” Don’t bank on this, but there’s a chance that the big political story of 2021 will be a return to co-operation and trust at the executive level of the Canada-U.S. political relationship. Donald Trump’s presidency was so strange and unprecedented that it ends, for Canada, with a sense…

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#Michael Sabia’s sure going to do something

#Michael Sabia’s sure going to do something

“#Michael Sabia’s sure going to do something” The reviews of Michael Sabia’s appointment as deputy minister of finance are as positive as they are comically vague. “I think he’s going to shake up the department,” Scott Clark, one of Sabia’s predecessors in the DM job, told the National Post‘s Jesse Snyder. “I don’t think they’re…

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#Why Canada’s vaccine rollout won’t be easy

#Why Canada’s vaccine rollout won’t be easy

“#Why Canada’s vaccine rollout won’t be easy” In 1979 and 1980, Canada saw its worst spike of measles in a decade. In Ontario, which had been hit particularly hard by the outbreak, the provincial government decided to take unprecedented action by drafting the Immunization of School Pupils Act, which would make it mandatory for students…

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