#Team Biden’s bizarre ‘Blame Canada’ border slap

#Team Biden’s bizarre ‘Blame Canada’ border slap

“#Team Biden’s bizarre ‘Blame Canada’ border slap” Poor Canada: It gets no respect even from the Biden administration, which just dissed it in the name of fighting COVID. Mere days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s borders will open to fully vaccinated Americans on Aug. 9, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas answered by…

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#Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions

#Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions

“#Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions” Paul Wells: The newly named Governor General has been a pillar of many Canadian communities and now will be again of another. She’s needed and ready. Reading from notes during a brief news conference Tuesday morning at the Canadian Museum of History—which is good! Caution is good!—Mary Simon…

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#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history

#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history

“#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history” OTTAWA, July 1 – Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country’s colonial past. Calls to scale back or cancel celebrations snowballed after, beginning in May, almost 1,000 unmarked graves were…

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#The new guy? Biden debuts at democracy’s most exclusive club

#The new guy? Biden debuts at democracy’s most exclusive club

“#The new guy? Biden debuts at democracy’s most exclusive club” WASHINGTON — Angela, Boris, Emmanuel, Justin, Mario, Yoshihide and a relative newcomer: Joe. They’re the board of global democracy’s most exclusive club, and they’re meeting this week after four years of US disruption and a two-year coronavirus interruption. Already on a first-name basis with relationships…

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#Trudeau le québécois – Macleans.ca

#Trudeau le québécois – Macleans.ca

“#Trudeau le québécois – Macleans.ca” Everyone’s wondering, yet again, what Justin Trudeau’s game is in Quebec. I doubt he’d have it any other way. Here’s my best attempt to discern the Prime Minister’s thinking on what will probably be the main battlefield of the next federal election. I will need to go into some detail….

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#Budget 2021: Welcome back, standard operating procedures

#Budget 2021: Welcome back, standard operating procedures

“#Budget 2021: Welcome back, standard operating procedures” Paul Wells: The budget focuses on the sort of things a government like Canada’s should be working on right now. But the big bet is on childcare—and the devil is in the details. Maybe we should begin by eliminating some straw men. There’s nothing in Chrystia Freeland’s first…

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#The Liberal convention: Everything now

#The Liberal convention: Everything now

“#The Liberal convention: Everything now” All happy families resemble one another, Leo Tolstoy wrote, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Canada’s federal Liberals, gathered in virtual convention on one another’s laptop screens all weekend, went Tolstoy one better: this family is so happy that all its members are essentially the same…

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#Justin Trudeau’s convention speech: Attacking the ‘disconnected’ Conservatives [Full Transcript]

#Justin Trudeau’s convention speech: Attacking the ‘disconnected’ Conservatives [Full Transcript]

“#Justin Trudeau’s convention speech: Attacking the ‘disconnected’ Conservatives [Full Transcript]” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the Liberal national convention on Saturday afternoon. His message to party members struck familiar notes about building back better and supporting the middle class—and those ‘working hard to join it’. He also had some pointed remarks about opposition leader…

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