Politics Insider for May 21: Trudeau gets on the phone with the Barbados PM, CSIS alludes to outdated laws stymying investigations and Jim Watson loves the Wu-Tang Clan
mentioned the Security Council election and noted the four million Canadians with ancestral ties to that region.
The PM was slated to attend a virtual meeting of the United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Group—one suspects a certain item was on the agenda—but the PMO tellsSpeaking of the New York-based international body built to solve problems across borders,is wondering why the UN isn’t playing a major role in fighting the pandemic.
, a prospective candidate for the Conservative leadership rejected in March by a subcommittee of the party’s leadership organizers. Justice Paul Perell ruled the dispute resolution appeal committee didn’t have the authority to boot Karahalios from the race. The full organizing committee, which does have that power, still could.Stephen Maher’s latest reporting on the Nova Scotia shooting tells the story of Heather O’Brien, a 51-year-old nurse who fell victim to the gunman.
The family gathered at the home of Dobson’s 61-year-old father, a retired contractor, and went separately to the scene in groups of two, asking what had become of Heather O’Brien. Repeatedly the officers on the scene, standing there holding long guns, sent them away without telling them their mother hadn’t made it. Individual officers spoke to them kindly, but they couldn’t get an answer.
Yesterday, the PM formalized the application process for federal-provincial rent relief, a program that has
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