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Politics Insider
One man’s ’Team Canada’ approach is another man’s ’botched’ bill
Politics Insider for April 2: Liberals ask Parliament to reconvene, the health minister admits the limits of federal emergency stockpiles, and Canadians are still flying home from everywhere
Thousands of Canadians can’t pay their rent today
Politics Insider for April 1: Rent is due across the nation, Trudeau announces $2 billion for medical equipment and China drops its ban on Canadian canola imports
Coronavirus layoffs have only started. Prepare yourself for the worst.
Politics Insider for March 31: We’re tracking layoffs across Canada, and offering advice to those who lose their jobs. Also, the PM announces who qualifies for a federal wage subsidy.
This week, we’ll see if Canada’s curve actually starts to flatten
Politics Insider for Mar. 30: Cracking down on domestic travel, additional funding for vulnerable Canadians and a reluctantly postponed Tory race
Canada fends off an American proposal to send troops near the border
Politics Insider for March 27: Chrystia Freeland said Canada was ’strongly opposed’ to a Trump administration proposal to militarize the frontier. What a first day for Canada’s new top envoy in Washington.
Did Bill Morneau even sleep a wink?
Politics Insider for March 26: Running on fumes, federal ministers take their emergency-aid road show to the Senate—and Ontario throws billions at the fight against coronavirus
MPs pull an all-nighter to pass a contentious emergency spending bill
Politics Insider for March 25: A marathon negotiation behind closed doors left the House of Commons suspended, and mostly empty. But MPs worked through the night and, just before sunrise, passed a heavily amended spending bill
A skeleton crew returns to Parliament to approve billions in spending
Politics Insider for March 24: Some MPs are back in Ottawa for the day, Canada’s civics lesson gets real and a pandemic makes strange political bedfellows
In Canada and around the world, weekends no longer exist
Politics Insider for Mar. 23: Parliament returns tomorrow to pass an emergency-funding bill, COVID-19 hits the territories, and Canadians learn the true meaning of loneliness