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Canada’s asylum backlog at biggest level ever

The waiting period to have a refugee claim heard in Canada is already long, with the claimed waiting period of a little under two years, although a five year wait is not unheard of. Canada’s acting Auditor-General, Sylvain Ricard, says »

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Canada’s pipeline debate: simmering in the background,ready to boil again

The long standing dispute over the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion, has been surpassed in the news by other political events, but it hasn’t gone away. Permission for the huge project was tossed out when a court agreed with legal challenges saying »

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Michael Harris and the 2015 federal vote

Michael Harris is the author of ‘Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada’s Radical Makeover‘. In this, his most recent book, Harris tells the stories that didn’t quite make the headlines and talks to the people who who worked in »

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Politics Today – April 26, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focuses on the electoral reaction to the tabling of a federal budget by the ruling Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He reports on the budget in Canada’s most populous »

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Politics Today – April 12, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the fraud and bribery trial of former government senator Mike Duffy, on the latest declarations of the Finance Minster Joe Oliver about the coming federal budget, an election in »

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Politics Today – April 5, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on a sobering evaluation by Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault about the erosion of access to government information in Canada in the last 30 years. He also reports on the »

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Politics Today – March 15, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reviews a week of controversy over the Canadian government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015. twitter.com/wojtekgwiazda

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Politics Today – February 22, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reviews this past week’s debates over the Canadian government’s proposed new anti-terrorism legislation, the report of the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of the Canadian military mission in Iraq, and »

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Politics Today – February 15, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on a full political week which included a government Member of Parliament defecting to join the opposition Liberals, a mini-cabinet shuffle after the resignation of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, »

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Politics Today – February 8, 2015

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the sudden resignation of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. He also reports on a failed attempt to restore Canada’s long form census, the controversy over the largest military »