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Housing ‘critical ingredient’ to curbing diseases like TB: Hajdu
Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu sidestepped questions last week about her department’s plan to tackle tuberculosis across First Nations communities.
Read MoreGiveSendGo blames Ottawa for lack of communication
The co-founders of Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo railed against a supposed lack of communication from Canadian authorities on the protest that took over downtown Ottawa for nearly a month.
Read More‘Unchartered’ waters: some Tories choose sides ahead of O’Toole leadership vote
As Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole gears up for a leadership review that could take place as early as today, several Tories began publicly staking their ground for or against the captain on Tuesday, with one dissenter condemning him for “doubling down” on alleged threats and attacks against his opponents.
Read MoreTaking the torch: NDP’s Cannings preparing to pitch his green bill
As legal experts emphasize a sense of “urgency” in parliamentarians considering a private member’s bill aiming to enshrine the right to a healthy environment into federal law, NDP MP Richard Cannings is optimistic he will get cross-party buy-in.
Read MoreCaucus relations to stay on O’Toole’s radar in 2022, say experts, strategists
All eyes will be on Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole and his caucus management in the early days of 2022, say some veteran Hill watchers, as parliamentarians ready themselves for the House’s return on January 31.
Read MoreRandom travel testing ‘not keeping up’ with virus, may do little to curb spread amid community surge: experts
As Ottawa looks to bring more Covid tests online throughout the month, some experts and travellers say it’s unclear whether a randomized testing regime for those entering Canada, in place since last summer, is helping to contain spread of the virus amid the emergence of the more contagious Omicron variant.
Read MoreNearly 17,000 hospitalizations for newborns related to opioid crisis, feds find in first-ever report
Updated national data and modelling shared by the Public Health Agency of Canada yesterday showed the number of deaths and hospitalizations related to the opioid crisis could claim up to 2,000 lives every three months up to June 2022.
Read More‘Not a success story’: PHAC stepped up monitoring of quarantining travellers but not well enough, says AG
Auditor general Karen Hogan detailed the Public Health Agency of Canada’s lagging efforts to verify travellers complied with two-week mandatory quarantine orders in a new report last week.
Read MoreTory MP says expulsion of senator warranted over petition challenging O’Toole’s leadership
A petition launched by Conservative Senator Denise Batters calling for a review of Erin O’Toole’s leadership within six months prompted frustration within CPC ranks yesterday, with thrice-elected MP Ron Liepert calling it grounds for her expulsion from the party’s Upper Chamber caucus.
Read MoreNo more excuses to delay declaration of victim rights, say experts, survivors
As Ottawa works to move on interim recommendations on the embattled military justice reform file, expectations for the Department of National Defence’s long-awaited victim bill of rights have heightened.
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