01/13/2021 10:00 AM EST
If you live in Ontario, stay at home. Only leave for essential reasons. Like going to the grocery store or the pharmacy. Or picking up takeout or curbside orders from, uh, non-essential businesses. Or exercising or meeting a few friends. If this doesn’t sound that different from what you were already doing, you’re clearly not paying attention. That was a lockdown, and this is an ORDER. The police will be issuing tickets, so don’t screw up.
Welcome to Corridors. I’m your host, Maura Forrest. In today’s edition: finger-pointing, cabinet-shuffling, and Annamie Paul s first 100 days. Get in touch: [email protected]
This year s Maclean s Lifetime Achievement winner: Jean Augustine
The trailblazing MP came to Ottawa to make change where she knew it mattered. Over 13 years in federal politics, she paved the way for so many others.
January 12, 2021
When Jean Augustine arrived on Parliament Hill to be sworn in as an MP representing Etobicoke-Lakeshore in 1993, she was accompanied by two busloads of supporters there to witness her oath. But she also brought along, and kept with her throughout her 13 years in federal politics, a much bigger, albeit invisible, contingent: students (especially those who really needed what school could offer them), women blazing difficult career trails, single mothers and Black Canadians.