Federal leaders debate: Jagmeet Singh misses his moment
Justin Ling: The NDP leader was too busy roasting the incumbent to sell himself as a PM-in-waiting
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Justin Ling
Why did pharmacare stop being a core Liberal promise?
Justin Ling: In 2019, Trudeau vowed to launch national universal pharmacare. This time around that pledge, along with plans for affordable drug pricing, has faded.
Federal election leaders debate: There’s a hole in your platform
Justin Ling: O’Toole found himself on the defensive in Wednesday’s leaders debate, pitching things that were nowhere to be found in his five-year spending document
Meanwhile, in Quebec, a parallel election
Justin Ling: In the first French-language leaders debate, Trudeau and O’Toole bent over backwards to pitch themselves as the PM who’d spend the most and do the least
Canada’s drug crisis has killed at least 23,000. What has Justin Trudeau done about it?
Justin Ling: The Liberals’ platform offers little to tackle Canada’s most deadly epidemic
Erin O’Toole, socialist crusader
Justin Ling: The policies put forth by the Conservatives are serious, sensible and pro-worker. They’re also impressive when put next to the anemic NDP platform.
The ’incoherent jumble’ that is the Liberal housing plan
Justin Ling: Both the NDP and Conservatives are taking seriously the idea that we need many, many new homes. The Liberals are, clearly, not.
The Conservatives’ murky position on ’conscience rights’ in health care
Justin Ling: The Tory platform says the party will protect conscience rights in health care, but won’t say whether that might restrict access to abortion or deny care to trans people
Where do Canada’s political parties stand on wars like Afghanistan?
Justin Ling: I asked the three main parties: Have we learned anything from Afghanistan? One clear theme emerges in all their answers (or lack thereof).
All of Justin Trudeau’s unfinished business
Justin Ling: The PM often says there’s ’always more to do’, but after six years in power it’s worth asking why—and what work has really gotten done at all?