An Ottawa hospital has opened the country’s first drive-through test site, but the Prime Minister won’t get a test for COVID-19 until his doctors tell him to. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed 5,000.
Cochrane has been labelled progressive yet pragmatic, which she credits to her life experience and simply being a woman in politics: ’We do think differently ... Not better. Just differently.’
Politics Insider for March 6: ’Political context’ sucks billions more from the energy sector, Navdeep Bains takes on the telecoms and robocalls are on Parliament’s hit list
Politics Insider for March 5: A new cabinet committee tackles a looming health crisis, ’deliverology’ may be dead and Canada makes more noise about Flight 752
Politics Insider for March 4: Trudeau heads to an electric bus manufacturer in Quebec, the defence industry gathers at the Chateau Laurier and guess which premier is most popular?
Politics Insider for March 2: A tentative Wet’suwet’en deal, new COVID-19 cases in Ontario and the limits of what federal Tories will accept in a potential leader