An academic drawn into politics at the apex of Trudeaumania, he steered the party to unprecedented popularity in the late 1980s but it wasn’t enough to see him become the first New Democrat prime minister
After starting her career on a children’s show in Halifax, Cassidy went on to earn an ACTRA nomination for her work on the soap opera High Hopes, and appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood
Geoffrey Stevens’s persistence held him in good stead as a reporter, especially in The Globe’s parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, and right up to his final column
While most Canadians – 82 per cent – still say vaccines are important during childhood, that number has dropped 8.2 percentage points since before the onset of COVID-19, the Unicef report found