Lines that landed: Question Period for October 23
This story deserves to be shared
Send it to someone who'd care, or post it on your networks.
We follow Question Period daily so you don’t have to. Conservatives hammered the government over record food bank visits and the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s warning on debt, while the finance minister answered that they voted against every affordability measure. The Bloc fought cuts to interpreters, and agriculture research, the tanker ban and vaccine injury compensation also came up. These are the lines that landed.
“I’ll be honest with you, Madam Speaker, I haven’t been speaking to the IMF, but you know who I have been speaking to? The food bank in Newcastle that has seen a 3,000% increase in usage since 2015.”
This article is an excerpt. To read the full content, visit the original source. The Hub
Related articles
Lines that landed: Question Period for October 21
We follow Question Period daily so you don’t have to. A new food bank report drove most of the day, with Conservatives pressing the government on hunger and the government listing the programs the opposition voted against. The Bloc and NDP went after Bill C-39, and housing starts, a veterans’ security contract and immigration rules filled the rest. These are the lines that landed. “And I would encourage the member to stop measuring success by how many Canadians need government assistance and start measuring by how many no longer do.”
Lines that landed: Question Period for October 20
Enjoy The Hub? Get a FREE 30 day trial subscription
House officials tell committee AI strategy unpublished and U.S. courts could reach Commons data
The House of Commons has an artificial intelligence strategy for 2025 to 2027 that has never been made public, and its own technology director says the data it stores with Microsoft carries risks under the U. S. CLOUD Act. Both concessions came Tuesday as the Clerk of the House, Eric Janse, and two senior administrators appeared before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs for its study of AI and Canada’s democratic institutions. A second panel of parliamentary interpreters followed with a warning that machine interpretation is not fit for Parliament.
Lessons From Covering Toronto’s First AI Election
I’ve looked at nearly every candidate running for municipal election across three cities. A lot of their campaigns look the same. What does it mean for democracy? When you research every candidate running for office in Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton, after a while, they can start to all blend together in your head. It’s not just that there are more than 600 candidates across the three cities. It’s that many of their campaigns do, in fact, look identical.
Renting for Years Changed My View of Vancouver
When orange, red, yellow, and purple tulips flanked the apartment entryway, that meant my neighbour Ed was back outside in the dirt after a winter indoors. Coming home to the bloom of those small garden plots was the official first sign of spring throughout my 15-year tenure living in a studio apartment a couple of blocks shy of Commercial Drive on Vancouver’s Broadway. As the season progressed, Ed would start planting vegetables and update me on how the potatoes, onions and hot peppers were doing when I stopped to chat on my way home from work.
CONTEST: Win a Copy of ‘Rise After Silence’
Dr. Anne Aspler, author of Rise After Silence. As an emergency doctor, Dr. Anne Aspler is very candid about her role in medicine. “Sometimes, I feel like the only life I’ve really meaningfully managed to save is my own. We carry things that feel impossible to let go of. I’ve hidden behind the strong and important label of emergency doctor, but what people don’t know about me is I’m also a survivor of childhood sexual assault.”
0 comments
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!