Joan Bryden
Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Trudeau pressed to make restrictive assisted-dying law less restrictive
Even before he swears in his new cabinet, Justin Trudeau is being urged to ask his new justice minister to move swiftly to make Canada's assisted-dying law less restrictive.
Liberal MPs gather in Ottawa after disappointing election result
Justin Trudeau says his new government has a lot of work to do to ensure it is governing for the entire country, but his MPs are warning the prime minister not to go too far to placate regions that spurned core Liberal policies and values.
Poll suggests many Canadians voted strategically to stop a party from winning
More than one-third of Canadians voted strategically in last week's federal election to stop another party from winning, a new poll suggests
Conservatives stoke fear of NDP-Liberal coalition as Scheer pushes for majority
Andrew Scheer is raising the spectre of a reckless, tax-and-spend Liberal-NDP coalition government to urge Canadians to hand the Conservatives a majority on Oct. 21.
Final debate behind them, federal leaders begin sprints to Oct. 21 voting day
Party leaders entered the home stretch of the federal election campaign on Friday, October 11, 2019, picking up the pace of their cross-country travel as they confronted listless poll numbers and a shrinking number of days left to inspire Canadians before they cast ballots on Oct. 21.
Re-elected Liberals would still run big deficits, despite new taxes
Justin Trudeau tried to make virtue out of red ink on Sunday, September 29, 2019, as he released a Liberal platform that promises to impose new taxes on wealthy individuals, large international corporations, foreign housing speculators and tech giants to help cover the cost of billions in new spending and tax breaks for the middle class.
Beyak thumbs nose at Senate orders on racist letters about Indigenous Peoples
Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples have finally been removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak's website — but only because Senate officials erased them after Beyak refused to do so herself.
Grits, Tories start election campaign in dead heat, NDP, Greens tied: Poll
Justin Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives were running neck-and-neck during warm-up laps for the start of the 40-day federal election campaign, a new poll suggests.
Rona Ambrose disagrees with Andrew Scheer's negative view of NAFTA
The Conservatives' former leader doesn't agree with the current leader's assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA.
Liberals block hearings into scathing ethics report on SNC-Lavalin affair
Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics commissioner Mario Dion's scathing report into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.