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2020-04-11Canadian Members of Parliament practicing physical distancing while the House of Commons is in session
Canadian Members of Parliament practicing physical distancing while the House of Commons is in session. -
2020-11-26Liberal and Conservative governments have historically underfunded the people of Nunavut. With COVID-19 outbreaks, these historic inequities place them at increased risk.
Reddit post with video of New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh discussing growing COVID-19 crisis in Nunavut. -
2020-04-08"Viktor Orbán is Using the Coronavirus Emergency to Crush Minorities" - Jacobin
In an article for Jacobin Magazine, Imre Szijarto and Rosa Schwartzburg describe in length how the far-right government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to pass a law to give itself emergency powers over civil society and the other branches of government. These emergency powers, which include the ability to censor journalists, attacks on LGBTQ rights, the power to grant government contracts (to Orban's cronies), and the takeover of art institutions, represents a blatant power grab that is unprecedented in Europe since the 1930s. Indeed, Orban's emergency power decree has drawn comparisons to figures as varied as Adolf Hitler and Emperor Palpatine (in Hungarian language memes), and the European Union leadership has strongly condemned Orban's decree as akin the "Enabling Act," which was passed by the Nazis in 1933. Orban's autocratic power grab and the democratic backsliding experienced by Hungary were already underway before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has allowed Orban to use a "state of exception" to effectively suspend liberally democracy in Hungary for the foreseeable future. -
2020-11-04UK parliament approves month-long COVID-19 lockdown for England
As COVID-19 ramps up in the UK, the government had to implement another lockdown. Parliament put the official stamp on it. I wonder who the 38 people against were? -
2020-09-18Party Leader of Bloc Québécois Has Tested for Covid-19
Yves-François Blanchet and his wife have tested positive for Covid-19. Ottawa is considered to be currently in a second wave, which poses questions how to protect members of parliament.