Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.
Governments in Alberta and Saskatchewan are grappling with a devastating fourth wave of COVID-19, while refusing to introduce additional public health restrictions to curb the deadly spread of the virus.
In a leak involving nearly 12 million financial documents, global elites and world leaders have been exposed as using secretive shell companies to shift trillions of dollars into tax havens, the Toronto Star and CBC report.
Despite the election delivering little change in the make-up of Parliament, notable shifts have occurred in this country’s political landscape.
Marking Truth and Reconciliation Day was a recommendation of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but the holiday only came to pass because of the efforts of residential school survivors.
“I don't have a plan (to run for leader), but I'm weighing it very carefully. I've been encouraged by a great many people to run."
"I don't have a plan, but I'm weighing it very carefully. I've been encouraged by a great many people to run."
“What the pandemic has done has just driven home how vulnerable we are to the pharmaceutical industry.”
“The language (the PPC) use — the ‘cult of diversity,’ the ‘flow’ of refugees, that sort of language — that's classic far-right language, white nationalist language.”
“The COVID conspiracy movement and the far-right are not happy with Erin O'Toole. So this time around, many more of them decided they weren't going to vote strategically, and they were going to vote for the PPC.”