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The Story So Far: PQ turns to anglos on Bill 14, Duffy leaves the Tories

Hello and welcome to The Story So Far for Friday, May 17. Click on the grey icon below to hear the rundown on the stories we’re following for you today. And remember, you can listen to all of our...

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Gazette Midday: Quebec deep in the red; and super beam to the rescue

Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. Quebec Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau admitted Thursday he...

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Trudeau’s Senate bombshell: Sensational – but is it smart?

Justin Trudeau announced this morning that he’s booting Liberal senators out of his party’s caucus in a bid to show he’s serious about cleaning up the Senate. It’s a move that sure to spawn plenty of...

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“We’re going to continue to sit as Liberals”– Senator Joan Fraser

It has been an interesting day for Canada’s 32 Liberal senators, if only because they found out this morning that they are not Liberal senators any more. Party leader Justin Trudeau announced this...

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Transgender rights: A refresher on Canada’s Bill C-279

The following is a guest post from Kay, a member of Ontario group Gender Mosaic: Bill C-279 is at the one year mark in the Canadian Senate and still hasn’t come to a vote.   I know, it’s been so long...

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Letter: Nothing ‘fun’ about Canada’s Senate

Re: “Questions, no answers, on Canada’s Senate” (Coyne, July 19) Once again, relentlessly, Andrew Coyne singles out the constitutional quagmire that baffles and paralyzes politicians and pundits of...

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Bill C-279: Women endangered by bathroom amendment

Serious oversight. Serious miscalculation. In the months to come, those words may be used to describe Senator Don Plett’s amendment to Bill C-279, a gender identity/trans rights bill that has...

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Transgender rights: Bar Association opposes C-279 'bathroom' amendment

The Canadian Bar Association is asking the Canadian Senate to reject Conservative Senator Don Plett’s controversial amendment to Bill C-279, which could force trans women to use men’s washrooms and...

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Looking into why the senate scandal could possibly be orchestrated by Harper

Over the last nine months it has been informative to read journalists report on the scandals of the Canadian Senate. It is not just the facts of the cases; it is the mood of their reports. They seem to...

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Opinion: Stephen Harper can't just refuse to fill Senate vacancies

Can a prime minister refuse to fill Senate vacancies? The short answer is no. The Constitution cannot be held hostage to political tactics or strategies. The Constitution Act is the supreme law of the...

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Opinion: A Senate with regional caucuses would be problematic for Quebec...

Former senators Mike Kirby and Hugh Segal put out a report in the Public Policy Forum last week suggesting that regional caucuses, based on the four regions in the Senate, should be an alternative to...

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Opinion: Canada's Senate enters 2017 embracing a new openness

In order to know where the Senate is going in 2017, one need only look where we went in 2016. As members of Canada’s “House of Sober Second Thought,” we’ve faced our challenges. We’ve heard Canadians....

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