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12/11/23
Author: 
Lisa Lerer and Shane Goldmacher
Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky won a second term after repeatedly criticizing his Republican opponent for initially backing a state abortion ban that contains no exceptions for rape or incest.Credit...Jon Cherry for The New York Times

Nov. 8, 2023

Democrats won decisive victories in major races across the country on Tuesday evening, overcoming the downward pull of an unpopular president, lingering inflation and growing global unrest by relying on abortion, the issue that has emerged as their fail-safe since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

In races in parts of the South and the Rust Belt, Democrats put abortion rights at the center of their campaigns, spending tens of millions of dollars on ads highlighting Republican support for abortion bans.

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12/11/23
Author: 
Zak Vescera
Housing costs in Vancouver have left most people behind. Photo via Wikimedia, Creative Commons licensed.

Nov. 8, 2023

Workers are being left behind as costs jump almost seven per cent, says CCPA.

10/11/23
Author: 
Claire Elise Thompson, Associate Editor

Nov. 8, 2023

 

The vision

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.”

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, in a 2009 interview

10/11/23
Author: 
Grace Giesbrecht
The Fraser Valley organization helping refugees find housing

Nov. 10, 2023

The housing market is hard enough to break into for the average person. Imagine if you were fleeing war.

Digging through Facebook Marketplace listings and Craigslist posts for a new place to call home isn’t easy for anyone.

But it’s particularly tricky when you don’t speak the language. And when you don’t have a credit score for landlords to check. Or when all your references live on the other side of the world. 

10/11/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé before a federal committee meeting on Sept. 28, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

Nov. 10, 2023

Canada’s environment commissioner said it is not clear how the oil and gas sector will achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions prescribed under the federal government’s climate plan, and called for more transparency around the modelling.

07/11/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's non-binding motion to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price was defeated on Nov. 6, 2023. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Nov. 7, 2023

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s symbolic motion calling for more carbon tax carveouts was defeated, but this won’t end the polarizing debate that centres on equity.

For the most part, opposition politicians and provincial governments have focused their attention on pushing for more carbon price carveouts, calling the Liberals’ three-year exemption on heating oil unfair to the rest of Canadians.

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