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We begin with ethics commissioner Mario Dion, who has found that former Finance minister Bill Morneau broke ethics law by failing to recuse himself from discussions about awarding WE Charity the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG), but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not. The commissioner’s findings were published today, the result of an investigation requested by four MPs on July 10, after the Trudeau government outsourced the $500-million CSSG a program to pay students for volunteering to WE Charity, an organization with which the Trudeau and Morneau famili
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Dearborn City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to change the name of the Hubbard Ballroom in its civic center, the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. The venue used for weddings and other events will now be called the Lincoln Ballroom in honor of President Abraham Lincoln.
Orville Hubbard was the longest serving mayor of Dearborn, but gained notoriety for his racist remarks and fervent support of racial segregation.
The ballroom s name is not the first time the city has reckoned with Hubbard s legacy. A statue of Hubbard stood outside city hall starting in 1989, but was moved to the lawn of the Dearborn Historical Society in 2015. There it stood until June of 2020, when it quietly was moved outside Dearborn city limits to Hubbard s grave.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 5, 2021 5:47pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his daily media availability in mid-May. Andrew Meade/iPolitics
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As the public fumes about politicians who saw fit to travel internationally over the holidays while they followed public health advice and stayed at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned everyone who saw fit to do so.