CBC Radio's The House: From delta to omicron
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Much of the world has ramped up travel restrictions after the emergence of the COVID-19 omicron variant. The swift introduction of the new measures left travellers in the lurch — including one Canadian man and his family. He tells The House they're unable to return home from South Africa before Christmas.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino joins host Chris Hall to discuss the new measures at the border, and Peel Region medical officer of health Dr. Lawrence Loh explains how his jurisdiction — home to Canada's biggest international airport — is dealing with omicron.
Some interesting procedural and parliamentary quirks led to a remarkable moment in the House of Commons this week, as parties joined to unanimously fast-track the government's bill to end the practice of conversion therapy.
Why did so many Conservatives change their mind about the bill? And will this moment of collegiality be sustained, as MPs look forward to more legislation and a proposed compromise over secret documents? Political journalists Kady O'Malley and Stephanie Taylor join The House to help break it all down.
One hundred years ago, on Dec. 6, Canada elected its first female MP. Agnes Macphail was a progressive activist who fought for prison reform and the working class, but she often faced scorn and ridicule from her fellow members of Parliament and the media.
The House examines Macphail's political career with history professors Joan Sangster and Veronica Strong-Boag, and the curator of the House of Commons, Johanna Mizgala. Then, CBC's Hannah Thibedeau asks prominent politicians — including former prime minister Kim Campbell, former deputy PM Sheila Copps and Canada's first Black female MP Jean Augustine — to reflect on the challenges they faced as women in the House.
Whoever becomes attorney-general — the top lawyer — in Susan Holt's new Liberal government will face piles of lawsuits, along with decisions about how quickly to clear some of them away.
A video obtained by CBC Toronto shows a violent arrest by Peel Regional Police in Mississauga on Monday in which a Black man appears to get knocked unconscious.
Community members in Cote-des-Neiges are asking what comes next for students of an elementary school that has been at the centre of a political and media firestorm.
A personal care home in Winkler, Man., has been forced to close 26 desperately needed beds after its elevator became unstable, and petitioned the provincial government for months before Shared Health finally committed to fund the repair.
Josh Peterson knows gunshot wounds. He says he expected the worst when he showed up in the hospital emergency room to check on his 66-year-old dad.
Four years ago, the P.E.I. government said it had ordered a corporation owned by a member of the Irving family, Red Fox Acres, to get rid of some of its land because of a contravention of P.E.I.'s Lands Protection Act.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton, as counted by Homeward Trust, has increased by nearly 2,000 in the past year, up to 4,697 in September.
You've probably done a double take walking by some of your neighbours' yards this Halloween season, as sets of spooky skeletal eyes stare back at you.
A senior official at the Niagara Detention Centre (NDC) told the inquest into the deaths of five men that there can be tension between managing inmate health care and securing the jail.
Except on a few special days a year, Windsorites aren't allowed to buy or set off fireworks. But as the city's South Asian community prepares to celebrate Diwali, two local business owners say the Festival of Lights should be added to the list of holidays.
Calgary's rental market has gone through a major shift in recent years.