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There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Quebec Premier François Legault. Provincial premiers are getting whipsawed, forced to choose between lockdowns and opening up to keep the economy going. The previous unified federal-provincial approach appears to be cracking. And Canadians are worried, very afraid, writes Ian Waddell. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”

There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Quebec Premier François Legault. Provincial premiers are getting whipsawed, forced to choose between lockdowns and opening up to keep the economy going. The previous unified federal-provincial approach appears to be cracking. And Canadians are worried, very afraid, writes Ian Waddell. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Quebec Premier François Legault. Provincial premiers are getting whipsawed, forced to choose between lockdowns and opening up to keep the economy going. The previous unified federal-provincial approach appears to be cracking. And Canadians are worried, very afraid, writes Ian Waddell. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”

There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | November 19, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—The headlines are alarming: “Daily cases may top 10,000 next month: Tam”; “Hospitals stretched to the limits”; “Health-care workers exhausted”; and “Canada’s unity cracking.”
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Quebec Premier François Legault. Provincial premiers are getting whipsawed, forced to choose between lockdowns and opening up to keep the economy going. The previous unified federal-provincial approach appears to be cracking. And Canadians are worried, very afraid, writes Ian Waddell. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

A ‘friend of China’ has a message for China

  • VANCOUVER—On a winter’s night in 1980, I left a dinner reception at the Chinese Embassy, to find my rumpled Volkswagen and was surprisingly followed
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | May 28, 2020
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A ‘friend of China’ has a message for China

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | May 28, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—On a winter’s night in 1980, I left a dinner reception at the Chinese Embassy, to find my rumpled Volkswagen and was surprisingly followed

A ‘friend of China’ has a message for China

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | May 28, 2020
  • VANCOUVER—On a winter’s night in 1980, I left a dinner reception at the Chinese Embassy, to find my rumpled Volkswagen and was surprisingly followed
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

What Canada should learn from Australia’s devastating fires

  • Having spent the first two weeks of 2020 in New South Wales, Australia, I’m getting a firsthand look at the devastating fires in Australia.
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | January 16, 2020
For Australians, climate change has gone from the theoretical to the tangible, writes former NDP MP Ian Waddell, pictured. Photograph courtesy of Ian Waddell

What Canada should learn from Australia’s devastating fires

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | January 16, 2020
  • Having spent the first two weeks of 2020 in New South Wales, Australia, I’m getting a firsthand look at the devastating fires in Australia.

What Canada should learn from Australia’s devastating fires

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | January 16, 2020
  • Having spent the first two weeks of 2020 in New South Wales, Australia, I’m getting a firsthand look at the devastating fires in Australia.
For Australians, climate change has gone from the theoretical to the tangible, writes former NDP MP Ian Waddell, pictured. Photograph courtesy of Ian Waddell

Why the youth vote matters

  • In 2015, just before the last federal election, we produced a movie, led by documentary filmmaker Robert Lang, about young people voting—or more accurately,
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | June 1, 2018
Dylan Playfair, featured in the documentary film The Drop, went to Parliament Hill ahead of the 2015 election to speak with party leaders about connecting with youth voters. Photo courtesy of Ian Waddell

Why the youth vote matters

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | June 1, 2018
  • In 2015, just before the last federal election, we produced a movie, led by documentary filmmaker Robert Lang, about young people voting—or more accurately,

Why the youth vote matters

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | June 1, 2018
  • In 2015, just before the last federal election, we produced a movie, led by documentary filmmaker Robert Lang, about young people voting—or more accurately,
Dylan Playfair, featured in the documentary film The Drop, went to Parliament Hill ahead of the 2015 election to speak with party leaders about connecting with youth voters. Photo courtesy of Ian Waddell

Trudeau government must stand up to U.S. to protect Yukon caribou 

  • VANCOUVER—Yes this tale involves Donald Trump but first we need a short history lesson. The Porcupine caribou herd, ranging between 100,000 and 200,000 animals,
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | February 19, 2018
Former MP Ian Waddell says for the future of the porcupine caribou, the Trudeau government must 'reinvigorate the treaty provisions' on habitat protection with the U.S. Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Trudeau government must stand up to U.S. to protect Yukon caribou 

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | February 19, 2018
  • VANCOUVER—Yes this tale involves Donald Trump but first we need a short history lesson. The Porcupine caribou herd, ranging between 100,000 and 200,000 animals,

Trudeau government must stand up to U.S. to protect Yukon caribou 

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | February 19, 2018
  • VANCOUVER—Yes this tale involves Donald Trump but first we need a short history lesson. The Porcupine caribou herd, ranging between 100,000 and 200,000 animals,
Former MP Ian Waddell says for the future of the porcupine caribou, the Trudeau government must 'reinvigorate the treaty provisions' on habitat protection with the U.S. Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Why young people voted

  • VANCOUVER—In the recent British election—if you can believe the exit polls and a number of newly elected Labour MPs—young people came out and voted.
Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | July 10, 2017
The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote, the one-hour TVO and CPAC 2015 documentary, follows actor and filmmaker Dylan Playfair across North America who is trying to find out why millennials don't vote. Screen capture from The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote

Why young people voted

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | July 10, 2017
  • VANCOUVER—In the recent British election—if you can believe the exit polls and a number of newly elected Labour MPs—young people came out and voted.

Why young people voted

Opinion | BY IAN WADDELL | July 10, 2017
  • VANCOUVER—In the recent British election—if you can believe the exit polls and a number of newly elected Labour MPs—young people came out and voted.
The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote, the one-hour TVO and CPAC 2015 documentary, follows actor and filmmaker Dylan Playfair across North America who is trying to find out why millennials don't vote. Screen capture from The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote

Yoga on the Hill, then and now

  • When I was a young lawyer, my friend and filmmaker Iain Ewing, whom I had met in residence in Calvin House in Victoria College
FeatureBY IAN WADDELL | June 20, 2016
Every Wednesday at noon in the summer months, hundreds gather on Parliament Hill for yoga. Back in Ian Waddell's days on the Hill, his staff advised against doing a headstand on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Yoga on the Hill, then and now

FeatureBY IAN WADDELL | June 20, 2016
  • When I was a young lawyer, my friend and filmmaker Iain Ewing, whom I had met in residence in Calvin House in Victoria College

Yoga on the Hill, then and now

FeatureBY IAN WADDELL | June 20, 2016
  • When I was a young lawyer, my friend and filmmaker Iain Ewing, whom I had met in residence in Calvin House in Victoria College
Every Wednesday at noon in the summer months, hundreds gather on Parliament Hill for yoga. Back in Ian Waddell's days on the Hill, his staff advised against doing a headstand on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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