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In the family: two new MPs follow parents’ path to politics

With Lyndsey Mathyssen’s election on Oct. 21, she and Irene Mathyssen have become the first-ever case of mother-daughter succession in House of Commons history.

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN
November 6, 2019

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In the family: two new MPs follow parents’ path to politics

With Lyndsey Mathyssen’s election on Oct. 21, she and Irene Mathyssen have become the first-ever case of mother-daughter succession in House of Commons history.

‘This is an emergency’: Canadian politicos react to Trump’s election, upcoming cabinet appointments

Review of solitary confinement law a year late as report finds prisoners’ rights still violated

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Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets

Conservative MPs bailed on France visit early, won’t say why

Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey

Questions turn to ceasefire, humanitarian aid and Iran after MPs condemn Hamas

The Canadian parliamentary cross-party effort to help ‘the most at-risk women in the world right now’

Progressive Afghan women in dangerous limbo, while we wring our hands uselessly

MPs continue push to confront China’s Uyghur persecution as pressure builds for feds to apply genocide label

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In the family: two new MPs follow parents’ path to politics

With Lyndsey Mathyssen’s election on Oct. 21, she and Irene Mathyssen have become the first-ever case of mother-daughter succession in House of Commons history.

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