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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, seen here on Sept. 15, is leading Canada's 300-plus person official delegation to COP27 in Egypt from Nov. 6 to Nov. 18. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘Among the worst in the world’: environmental advocates slam outsized oil and gas company influence in Canada’s COP27 delegation

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  • The official Canadian delegation to the 27th UN Climate Conference is made up of approximately 335 people, but one critic says many civil society representatives have had to find their own way to Egypt.

‘Among the worst in the world’: environmental advocates slam outsized oil and gas company influence in Canada’s COP27 delegation

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI
  • The official Canadian delegation to the 27th UN Climate Conference is made up of approximately 335 people, but one critic says many civil society representatives have had to find their own way to Egypt.

Twitter plays a ‘significant’ role in Canada’s democracy, and government must do more to regulate in face of Musk’s ‘roller-coaster,’ say observers

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Green leadership candidates debate competing visions to rejuvenate the party

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‘Violent’ residential school denialism no longer ‘legitimate talking point’ after genocide motion, say Gazan, experts

Police, pictured Feb. 17, 2022, arresting a man on Wellington Street during the Freedom Convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘Too much confusion’ at political, police levels during trucker protest, says former Harper-era minister Fantino

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY
  • Julian Fantino says Ottawa needed a co-ordinated, united police front during the Freedom Convoy occupation, but didn't have one until the end.

‘Too much confusion’ at political, police levels during trucker protest, says former Harper-era minister Fantino

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY
  • Julian Fantino says Ottawa needed a co-ordinated, united police front during the Freedom Convoy occupation, but didn't have one until the end.
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Non-affiliated Senator Mary Jane McCallum is calling for further Senate reform, arguing that, 'despite being a modern Senate that supposedly values and champions independence, the Senators who brave being truly independent are treated as second-class Senators.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘Second-class Senators’: McCallum pushing to empower non-affiliated Senators

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  • Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran says she knew, ‘theoretically,’ the difference being non-affiliated would make when she left the Independent Senators Group last year, but ‘living it is very different.’

‘Second-class Senators’: McCallum pushing to empower non-affiliated Senators

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  • Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran says she knew, ‘theoretically,’ the difference being non-affiliated would make when she left the Independent Senators Group last year, but ‘living it is very different.’

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Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland holds a press conference on Parliament Hill on Nov. 3, before tabling her economic and fiscal update in the House of Commons. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Stock buyback tax a ‘modest’ signal Liberals tackling inequality, says economist

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI
  • Both supporters and opponents of the new tax measure introduced in the fall economic statement are skeptical of the government's claim it will encourage companies 'to reinvest their profits in workers and in Canada.'

Stock buyback tax a ‘modest’ signal Liberals tackling inequality, says economist

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI
  • Both supporters and opponents of the new tax measure introduced in the fall economic statement are skeptical of the government's claim it will encourage companies 'to reinvest their profits in workers and in Canada.'
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez told the House Heritage Committee in June that Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is 'about the obligations of platforms, not users,' and that the government has 'no intention of regulating what people post online.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Bill C-11 amendments must define role of ‘international service,’ says RCI action committee spokesperson

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • Parliament, not the CBC, should be in charge of the mandate of Radio Canada International (RCI), according to a spokesperson for the RCI action committee.

Bill C-11 amendments must define role of ‘international service,’ says RCI action committee spokesperson

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • Parliament, not the CBC, should be in charge of the mandate of Radio Canada International (RCI), according to a spokesperson for the RCI action committee.

Drummond applauds ‘realistic’ economic forecast, but urges spending restraint, while others praise mini-budget’s targeted affordability measures

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Drummond applauds ‘realistic’ economic forecast, but urges spending restraint, while others praise mini-budget’s targeted affordability measures

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