Five ways the government has put medicare on life support

Published January 12, 2015

Months away from a federal election, no one’s really talking about the elephant in the emergency room: medicare. The diagnosis isn’t good. iPolitics Linda McQuaig has weighed in, arguing that the Conservative government has quietly eroded our health care system, stacking the deck for failure and increased privatization. She argues that “two-tier medicine is a virtual certainty if the […]

Julian Fantino’s hometown newspaper calls for MP’s resignation

Published January 8, 2015

A political career summed up in one word: “sigh.” The constituents of controversy-magnet Julian Fantino – the recently demoted Minister of Veterans Affairs and Conservative MP to the “good people of Vaughan” – were presented with a scathing editorial in the Vaughan Citizen this week calling for Fantino’s resignation. The bluntly worded editorial, titled “Vaughan MP Julian Fantino […]

‘Twas the Night Before Conservative Christmas

Published December 23, 2014

In honour of the holiday season, we re-wrote the Christmas classic to bring you ‘Twas the Night Before Conservative Christmas. Find out what gifts “Saint Harper” has for Canadians: ‘Twas the night before ChristmasWhen all through the HouseNot a “creature” was stirringNot even John Baird’s mouth The stockings all hungBy Canadian chimneys with careIn hopes […]

Who killed it? The case of the government’s vanishing climate change press release

Published December 15, 2014

Maybe it was Minister X in the conservatory with the delete button. Natural Resources Canada spent months editing a news release about a devastating climate change report, according to documents newly obtained by PressProgress through Access to Information. Their work was all for naught. The release was never actually issued in what appears to be […]

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Five ways the government has put medicare on life support

Julian Fantino’s hometown newspaper calls for MP’s resignation

‘Twas the Night Before Conservative Christmas

Who killed it? The case of the government’s vanishing climate change press release