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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
When Barbara Sherwood Lollar sent water samples to a colleague for testing, she knew this was no ordinary water. Tests pegged the mean age of the samples, from a mine north of Timmins, Ont., at 1.6 billion years old—the oldest ever found on Earth.
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In the days after 9/11, Brian Clark would get phone calls from family members of missing colleagues asking if he’d seen their person on his descent from the 84th floor of the south tower. He remembers having to let them down gently. (1/5)
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. @theJagmeetSingh on his climate plan: "You do not need to choose between Mr. Delay and Mr. Deny. There is another option." #elx43 #leadersdebate2019
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. @AndrewScheer , responding to @JustinTrudeau : "You seem to be oddly obsessed with provincial politics. There is a vacancy for the Ontario Liberal leadership, and if you are so focused on provincial politics go and run for the leadership of that party Mr. Trudeau."
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
Two covers with two different prices—one at $8.81, the other at our regular price of $6.99—to reflect the 26 per cent gap between full-time wages paid to men and women in Canada. Here's why Maclean's is doing this. #PayEquity
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
"Tim Hortons is not an indispensable part of the Canadian experience. Rather, it is a place that sells a breakfast sandwich that tastes like a dishcloth soaked in egg yolk and left out overnight on top of a radiator."
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Maclean’s Magazine
9 years
Emma Teitel considers the backlash against the mania for @RubyRose : http://t.co/ywxdvWOllZ #OITNB http://t.co/C6XKhDbEZE
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
Mitch Fowler is a “speedrunner,” the name for gamers who obsessively search for optimal paths and exploit glitches that save precious seconds to post the fastest times.
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
Police sources say the Nova Scotia killer's withdrawal of $475,000 was highly irregular, and how an RCMP ‘agent’ would get money
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
. @cafreeland wins the Parliamentarian of the Year award, as voted by fellow MPs. Congratulations! #MacleansPOTY
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5 years
Voted this year's hardest-working MP, Chrystia Freeland spent most of the past year effectively doing two ministerial jobs at the same time. #POTY2018
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
Read Brian’s story and the tales of five other people whose lives changed forever in the twenty years since Sept. 11, 2001. (5/5)
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“I can remember that day, it rolls like a movie in my brain,” he says. After 10 seconds of terror, “I had this feeling wash over me that, ‘Brian, you’re going to be okay.’” (2/5)
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
Amidst the chaos and horror, a Toronto police officer calmly faced down the driver. It’s a moment we should remember.
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3 years
Skating on frozen rivers and lakes—a pastime known as “wild” or “Nordic” skating, common in Scandinavian countries—is growing in popularity in Canada, particularly during the pandemic.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
. @theJagmeetSingh interjects on a discussion around women's rights: "A man has no position in a discussion on a woman's right to choose." #elx43 #leadersdebate2019
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
A scene in Pixar's 'Turning Red,' where mother Ming shows up at the window outside of protagonist Mei’s math class and gets into a fight with the school’s security guard is based on Canadian director Domee Shi’s first day of middle school.
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5 years
Comic relief: After moderator Dawna Friesen mistakenly refers to @JagmeetSingh as @AndrewScheer , Singh retorts: "I wore a bright orange turban on purpose today. What does it take!" Scheer then points out his height advantage. #LeadersDebate2019 #elxn43
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
. @MichelleRempel wins the #MacleansPOTY Hardest Working award, as voted by fellow MPs. Congratulations!
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Paul Wells: What Jody Wilson-Raybould described today is a sickeningly smug protection racket and it should make us all question what we're willing to tolerate
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
Beneath shimmering turquoise waters off the coast of Cancún, Mexico, an army of spectral sculptures covered in algae and crustaceans is waiting to dazzle divers. But the artwork is also there to remind them of the costs of their adventures.
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
The journey from the surface to the water source in the mine takes up to an hour, down to a depth of 2,377 m. Down there, the walls are warm to the touch and the water temperature is at least 25° C.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
. @JustinTrudeau : "Jason Kenney and Doug Ford, and other Conservatives premiers don't want to do anything on climate change. And we need a government in Ottawa that is going to fight them and fight for Canadians..."
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
Late last year, we asked prominent Canadians what they'd do with their extra day in 2020. Here's what @nailogical , a Canadian YouTube star with more than 7 million subscribers, said.
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Maclean’s Magazine
8 years
#Olympic #longreads : Meet @OleksiakPenny — Canada's best-ever Summer Olympian #CAN #Rio2016
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
While 9/11 does not haunt Clark to the degree it does so many others, he still lives in its shadow. After introducing himself to a real estate agent recently, she said “I know exactly who you are, you’re Brian Clark of 9/11.” (3/5)
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
Scientists says speedrunning could have a similar effect on players like @Mitchflowerpwer . “At the heart of every video game is a learning super engine. He’s optimizing learning. He’s becoming an athlete in that way.” The full story:
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Stephen Maher: Ontario's premier seems determined to put his friend in charge of the OPP, which is much more worrying than L'affair SNC-Lavalin
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
“We’re all blistered or oversaturated in the 20th anniversary, but my 20th anniversary is no different than your 20th anniversary,” he says. (4/5)
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
The May 2019 issue of Maclean's. Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould were the heart of the 2015 Liberal revolution. Now they stand alone. Interview with Wilson-Raybould: Interview with Philpott:
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Maclean’s Magazine
8 years
'Oh, brave new world ...' Share your favourite lines using #MyShakespeare : #Shakespeare400
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Paul Wells: The phoniness of the Prime Minister’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin file is a trait he shows the Canadian people all too often
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Scott Gilmore: This is the point all the whiners need to understand after Thursday's Amber Alert—if you want to live in a province that protects its children, occasionally you have to roll overrun bed and check your phone.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
In an exclusive interview with Paul Wells, the former Treasury Board president says: 'we actually owe it to Canadians as politicians to ensure that they have the truth.'
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
A closer look found that tiny chemolithotrophic microbes—an example, as Sherwood Lollar puts it, of life “hanging on by its toenails”—were present in the water and feasting on hydrogen and sulfate.
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
Paul Wells: The MP's astonishing criticism of Liberal policy on COVID restrictions is the most serious threat to Trudeau's leadership since Jane Philpott quit the federal cabinet
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
The RCMP believes the bodies are Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky. They were found in dense brush near the shoreline of the Nelson River. #ManitobaManhunt
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
On April 6, Canada’s rate of new COVID-19 cases came as close as its ever been to that of the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, as Canada posted 180.8 cases per million population, while the U.S. posted 195.7 per million population.
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
There aren’t enough skilled workers in Canada but attracting more women to these jobs will go a long way. Here’s why the gender gap exists, and how to fix it. Presented by @ONlabour #spons
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
If water can breed life far beneath Timmins, there’s a chance the same is true on the Red Planet. The ancient water might help answer the question: could there be life on other planets?
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
The phoniness of the Prime Minister’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin file is a trait he shows the Canadian people all too often, writes Paul Wells. Read this month's cover story: #cdnpoli
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
Andray Domise: People who hold left-leaning ideals have to quit kidding themselves by believing that capitalism exists as a benevolent or even neutral social arrangement
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
When scientists studied the brains of cab drivers in the city of London, they discovered that memorizing thousands of streets & routes expanded a driver’s hippocampus. The cabbies’ brains were physically larger.
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Maclean’s Magazine
7 months
She's baselessly claimed Cherokee ancestry. She's compared vaccinated Canadians to Hitler supporters. And she's also Alberta's premier. Our latest cover story explores how Danielle Smith's chaotic reign will shape the province—and Canada—for years to come.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Stephen Maher: The hit 1980s show is back—only this time it's reality TV, and Ontario premier Doug Ford is the star
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
"Democracy takes a lot of effort and while it may be my face on the TV...or my quote in a newspaper, there are so many people who work so hard behind the scenes to help me fight for my community." — @MichelleRempel , winner of the Hardest Working #MacleansPOTY award.
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5 years
Opinion: Far-right nationalists can no longer be thought of as a fringe group. After the heinous attack in New Zealand, it's clear they're leading one of the major terrorist movements of our time. #NewZealandTerroristAttack
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Maclean’s Magazine
7 years
HGTV's Bryan Baeumler breaks down the decades-long softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the U.S.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
By every measure, Canada is the true place to find 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' Let's stop squandering our good fortune. (From the archive)
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
Paul Wells: Trudeau's behaviour around the 'Farmhouse' renovation fits a pattern: believing that you deserve only the information he deigns to give
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
In summer 2017, Chloë Chapdelaine was 18 and living in the tiny town of Foremost, Alta. With no WiFi or TV, she had one roadside attraction to pique her interest: a moose crossing sign. (1/6)
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 months
Over the years, Maclean's photographer Peter Bregg frequently snapped Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who died yesterday. Here are a few of our favourite snapshots. 📸🧵
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
Maclean's magazine printed 66,349 individual covers for Remembrance Day — each bearing the name of a Canadian serviceman and woman who died in WW1. Plus one for the unknown soldier.
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
MUSA is the brainchild of Jason deCaires Taylor, a sculptor and diver who pioneered the concept of using underwater sculpture gardens to draw divers away from coral reefs. (Here is an image by him taken at the Cannes Underwater Eco-Museum in France.)
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
Find all your Canadian ketchup, whisky, orange juice, toilet paper and sporting goods, among many other soon-to-be-tariffed items, on our list.
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Maclean’s Magazine
7 years
Gord Downie has died after a long battle with cancer. Remembering the life and legacy of the Hip's frontman:
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
Powerful conservative leaders from across the country are suddenly united against Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax plan. And they’re spoiling for a fight. Meet the resistance. Read the full story by @InklessPW :
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Sept. 28: Canada's foreign minister may have rankled Donald Trump, but many are coming to her defence, impressed by her tough stance and intellect
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5 years
. @AndrewScheer on the declaration of the rights of Indigenous people: "[W]e cannot create a system in this country where one group of individuals, one Indigenous community, can hold hostage large projects that employ so many Indigenous Canadians" #firstdebate #cdnpoli #elxn43
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
'We condemn his actions and call on those in his cabinet and caucus to stand up to him. History will judge them by their silence.'
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
. @DesmondCole , @andraydomise , Esi Edugyan, Lawrence Hill, @sandela , @eternitymartis , @blacklikewho , @ianwillwrite pen open letters to America addressing the recent upheaval and the task of confronting racism that persists in Canada:
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Election Image of the Day: Ottawa battled Capt. Kimberly Fawcett to avoid paying for her prosthetic leg. Now she's running against the incumbent who failed to answer her pleas for help.
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
On our cover this month, we offer a Farsi expression of condolence to illustrate a collective spirit of national devastation after the downing of Flight 752 in Tehran. It translates to 'We all share this grief':
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
The 33-year-old Canadian gamer who lives in Salt Lake City had been racing to beat every level in Super Mario Bros. 3, the iconic Nintendo game first released in 1990.
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Maclean’s Magazine
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“[My mother] was hiding behind a tree with sunglasses on when I came out of school with my new friends,” Shi remembers. “I was mortified.”
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Anne Kingston: Flagrant disrespect for women and violation of their bodies in plain sight on the campaign trail offered a preview of the president's plans for a nation.
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Overcrowded and understaffed, there's an emergency room crisis in Canada—and a new wave of COVID-19 is making a dire situation worse. Veteran ER doctor @KashPrime shares what he's witnessed—and what's next.
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Maclean’s Magazine
4 years
Canada's military charm offensive south of the border is spearheaded by one Newfoundlander, a full battery and a love of poetry
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
The not-guilty verdict in the Gerald Stanley trial for the killing of Colten Boushie may prove a breaking point in the already frayed thread of trust between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people
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Maclean’s Magazine
3 years
Jody Wilson-Raybould was trending after she was mentioned in yesterday's debate. She recently spoke with Marie-Danielle Smith about her memoir, why she left Parliament—and how more free thinkers can change things
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Prince Albert, Sask., native Layton Keddy wanted to go on a biking adventure: a 330-km stretch of Australian wilderness between the towns of Marysville and Omeo, in the southeastern state of Victoria.
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Maclean’s Magazine
5 years
. @AndrewScheer 's opening remarks at #LeadersDebate2019 takes aim at Justin Trudeau. "You're a phoney, a fraud, and you don't deserve to govern this country." #elxn43
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. @AndrewScheer on SNC-Lavalin: "The core of this issue is whether or not we want to live in a country where powerful politicians get to pick up the phone and tell prosecutors how to do their job" #cdnpoli #elxn43 #firstdebate
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Maclean’s Magazine
6 years
Stephen Maher: Only fools, cranks or politicians can ignore the scientific consensus around global warming and the urgent need to address it
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Paul Wells: Believing a win at the UN would fall from the heavens on Trudeau because he wasn't Harper was an expression of the narcissism and shallowness that have characterized this government during much of its time in office
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“Mr. Scheer, that may be the worst idea in your whole non-platform": @ElizabethMay on the Conservative plan to cut foreign aid. #leadersdebate2019 #elxn43
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Maclean’s Magazine
9 years
Jim Parsons is playing God on Broadway. Here's @PatriciaTreble with the word on @ActofGodBway : http://t.co/gdhkTSJSa6 http://t.co/l8UClxsRCr
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Philippe J. Fournier: Thirty per cent of Conservative supporters would prefer Trump to Trudeau as a leader. That's a problem for a party needing to widen its base.
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Maclean’s Magazine
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Andrew MacDougall: Justin Trudeau looks like the un-smart, un-serious man that so many of his political opponents have always insisted he is.
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Maclean’s Magazine
2 years
Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz has been modelling the pandemic using the skills she developed as a developmental biologist. Right now, she’s worried about what she’s seeing in the data: she rates the likelihood of a fifth wave as 7 or 8 out of 10.
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That’s why, in popular vacation spots such as Cancún and Tuscany, activist artists are working to get humanity to change course before it’s too late. See more underwater sculptures here:
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Maclean’s Magazine
7 years
In memory of The Hip frontman Gord Downie, here are some of his most touching quotes. Read more here:
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Maclean’s Magazine
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ( @ramakrishnannn ) is known for her breakout role in @Netflix_CA 's rom-dram @neverhaveiever . Ahead of the show's final season, which premieres this week, the 21-year-old former 'next big thing' is looking ahead to, well, what's next.
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"Ever since a column of trucks set off for Ottawa in January with a song in their hearts and a plan to remove our democratically-elected government, the members of the CPC have been trying to find a way to greet them as liberators," writes @justin_ling .
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Maclean’s Magazine
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. @MichelleRempel on winning the #MacleansPOTY Hardest Working award, as voted by fellow MPs:
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Andrew Scheer has left himself open to charges of intolerance in his party. It could be the biggest, ugliest issue in the coming election.
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Dr. Theresa Tam recently unveiled the latest federal modelling of the pandemic, which forecast that the number of new cases could level off and start dropping in May, depending on the extent of public health restrictions.
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Actually, his name is Kevin, and he and his team at Ottawa Public Health have been a rare source of sincere, useful and sometimes funny information through the pandemic
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. @AndrewScheer 's closing statement: "Life is getting more expensive and Justin Trudeau is making it worse." #cdnpoli #elxn43 #firstdebate
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Who deserves absolution, and when, is one of humanity’s most vexing questions—one families devastated by the Humboldt Broncos tragedy can’t seem to avoid.
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. @MumilaaqQaqqaq delivered a powerful and eloquent farewell address to the House of Commons. 'As long as these halls echo with empty promises, I will not belong here.'
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Paul Wells: How did the SNC-Lavalin scandal manage to rattle this government so badly? Because it reveals some truths to Canadians about this Prime Minister.
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