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Donald Trump's tariffs cement costly recovery from Hurricane Florence - Toronto Star Sep 17th
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Making sense of the markets this week: December 14 Dec 12th
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What’s coming down the pipeline for Canadian investors?
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Sandra Arias.A federal campaign has rolled into its ninth full week for its first time since the 1970s, en route to the longest campaign since the 1870s. A multi-partisan array of candidates have quit or been pushed out because their past remarks or actions spurred micro-tempests for parties that didn’t need larger storms. But last week was the first case where one tapped out mid-race because of burnout.
“Simply put, the financial strain of a historically long election has been just too much to bear for myself and my family,” Sandra Arias wrote on her Facebook page. She was running for the NDP in Saskatchewan’s Battlefords–Lloydminster against Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.
Running a serious campaign can be more demanding than most full-time jobs, in energy and in time. Candidates must be willing to hold up their lives to unprecedented scrutiny, both in every word they say during the race but, increasingly, in everything typed or Facebook-liked in the past. (After she withdrew, some upstart Facebook-trawlers posted some of Arias’s social-media comments dating back to 2007…
(Jenna Marie Wakani/NDP)A new myth-busting study by Equal Voice, a national, multi-partisan organization dedicated to electing more women to all levels of political office in Canada, provides a fresh way of looking at female representation on the federal stage. In analyzing Canada’s 33 most ethnically diverse ridings, they found that, contrary to stereotypes that visible minority communities are less open to women leaders, representation of female visible minority candidates is far higher than that of the non-visible minority candidate pool. Part of the reason? Political parties cultivate visible minority women in these communities in a way we don’t see them do with so-called “old stock” Canadians, to employ the risible term used by Stephen Harper in a recent leaders’ debate.
The Equal Voice study was undertaken to determine candidate diversity in diverse ridings, says its executive director Nancy Peckford. Researcher Grace Lore, a Ph.D. political science student at the University of British Columbia, crunched data on 33 ridings where more than 50 per cent of the population is visible minority as identified by Andrew Griffith in Multiculturalism in Canada: Evidence and Anecdote—23 ridings in Ontario, eight in B…
