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“#The Throne Speech was short on substance—and the opposition was not afraid to say so” Politics Insider for Nov. 24, 2021: The Governor General’s cautious speech; a fed-up opposition; and a breakfast brawl Well, that was anticlimactic. Tuesday’s Speech from the Throne turned out pretty thin—short on length and short on substance, too, despite all…
“#A tender moment of truth in the coming-of-age film ‘Scarborough’” In a pivotal scene in this film adaptation, a young singer—struggling with his sexuality and nervous about opening up to his conservative Filipino family—finally gains the confidence to perform in front of his entire school The film adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s 2017 novel, Scarborough, premiered…
“#A tender moment of truth in the coming-of-age film ‘Scarborough’” In a pivotal scene in this film adaptation, a young singer—struggling with his sexuality and nervous about opening up to his conservative Filipino family—finally gains the confidence to perform in front of his entire school The film adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s 2017 novel, Scarborough, premiered…
“#’The donation of embryos is not equivalent to the donation of babies’” Baby talk In October, Joanna Long told the story of her family’s experience with embryo donation. Perhaps an editor can explain the tabloid headline on the cover of the October issue (“Here, take my baby,” October 2021). I wonder how the families featured…
“#Inflation is about to get way worse in 2022—and nearly everyone in Canada will feel the pinch” (Illustration by Klawe Rzeczy) To follow Blake Doyle’s life and work in Charlottetown is to take a madcap tour of inflationary Canada. In this regard, he’s like everyone on Prince Edward Island, where Statistics Canada shows the cost…
“#What happened to the Liberals’ concern about hunger and food insecurity?” The Throne Speech shook hopes that the Trudeau government will take meaningful action on a fast-growing problem Tuesday’s Speech from the Throne was intended to lay out the Trudeau government’s plan to, as the Liberals like to say in their public communications, “keep moving…
“#The Throne Speech was a lot like a stereotypical Christmas letter” A Speech from the Throne is a curious thing. It functions as a mission statement at the opening of a new session of Parliament, so it is effectively a government talking to itself and about itself to the public at once. In its modern…
“#Mary Simon’s land acknowledgement isn’t symbolic: ‘It is our true history’” Image of the Week: The governor general is a symbolic role and Simon’s appointment a symbolic victory. But her land acknowledgement—a bit of symbolic prose—is more than that. Land acknowledgements, once a good-faith effort to start a dialogue about Indigenous history, have come under…
“#Governor General Mary Simon’s 2021 Throne Speech: Full transcript” [Speaking in Inuktitut] Have a good afternoon. [Speaking in English] Honourable Senators, Members of the House of Commons, [Speaking in Inuktitut] Congratulations to each of you and welcome to the new Parliamentarians who will together with their colleagues make their mark on Canada. [Speaking in English] I would like to acknowledge that we…
“#Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech” Nothing to see here, folks. Well. Nothing surprising, anyway. While Speeches from the Throne are sometimes used to announce major new initiatives, that was not the case on Tuesday, as Liberals previewed their priorities for the new Parliament. We saw, instead, the repetition of promises from…