The Liberals are expected to introduce a pharmacare bill this year. Experts differ on whether pharmacare tackles the ‘right’ problem
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Democracy worldwide trending downwards: report
It’s the sixth year more countries have seen democratic declines than improvements, according to “The Global State of Democracy 2023” report.
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Tax relief for builders won’t mean budget relief for renters
Ontario has joined Ottawa in exempting rental housing projects from sales tax. But stronger measures are needed to bring down rental prices
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Trudeau faces backlash over Canada carbon tax exemption
Trudeau faced a growing backlash on Tuesday over exempting home heating oil from the government’s carbon tax
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Basic income: Canada’s next big social program?
Ontario cancelled its basic income pilot project, but efforts to create a basic income remain active in B.C., P.E.I. and Parliament
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Passenger rights just got a lot stronger
Proposed changes to Canada’s passenger rights regime will make it harder for airlines to avoid compensating passengers for flight disruptions
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MAID deaths up by 30 per cent in 2022: Health Canada
More than 13,000 Canadians chose MAID in 2022. Of those, 463 were people whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable, a 100 per cent increase from 2021
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India resumes issuing visas to Canadians after spat
Canada calls for India to co-operate in the investigation into the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an advocate for a Sikh state out of India
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Five dead including three children in Sault Ste. Marie shooting
Five people were killed in a case of ‘intimate partner violence’ in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Three of them were children
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Court approves historic Indigenous child welfare settlement
$23 billion to more than 300,000 children and their families, $20 billion to reform the child welfare system in Indigenous communities