Lauren Heuser

Toronto

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Would the Conservatives Really Make Housing Affordable?

Sep 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Lauren Heuser |Jamie Bennett

In late 2023, Pierre Poilievre released a widely circulated mini documentary, titled Housing Hell: How We Got Here and How We Get Out, that highlighted the extent to which home and rental prices had increased in the years since Justin Trudeau came to power. His criticisms are not without foundation. Housing affordability has deteriorated sharply between 2015, when the Trudeau Liberals were first elected, and today.
The best comments from our readers this month

Aug 15, 2024 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

Read: 3 minWe welcome comments from our readers. You can share your comment by completing our Letters to the Editor form or by posting a comment at the end of an article. Here are a few top comments from recent weeks:What does ‘psychological safety’ in the workplace really mean? I was pleased to see your article on psychological safety in the workplace.
Decoder Replay: Corruption hurts democracy and human rights

Jul 10, 2024 | news-decoder.com | Lauren Heuser |Decoder Replay

When the rule of law doesn’t apply to world leaders, can they be reined in? Should a president or prime minister be above the law? A man takes a bribe.
Letter to the Editor regarding Canada's primary-care crisis

Apr 3, 2024 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

Read: < 1 minRe: Primary-care crisis has put family physicians in impossible positionI will soon be 65 years old and am in my 39th year of a busy family medicine practice. I am privileged and humbled to have had a career that allows me to build relationships of trust with so many people, and to be part of the best and worst times of their lives. As your feature articulated, the decision to retire without securing a replacement is tremendously difficult and heart-wrenching.
Riddle Me This

Oct 4, 2023 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

ACROSS1. A wee order of Scotch5. Immediately!9. In need of a cleaning14. _____ temperature (have a fever)15. Sigh of relief16. Opening words17. Luxury hotel brand18. Croft of Tomb Raider19. Reason to change a shirt20. First Indigenous Canadian on the SCC22. Reserved23. Cheque receivers24. Breakfast brand26. It ended at 11 AM on 11/1129. Canadian question marks? 31. Sea north of the Mediterranean33. Abbreviated request left on a chalkboard36. Happening39.
Teen's classroom arrest on bullying claims riles France

Sep 20, 2023 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

The French government on Wednesday defended the arrest of a teenage boy in the middle of class over claims of bullying a transgender classmate, a rare move that angered many pupils and parents despite widespread support for a crackdown on harassment. The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom in the Paris suburb of Alfortville on Monday.
US household incomes fall for third straight year

Sep 12, 2023 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

US inflation-adjusted incomes fell for a third straight year in 2022, but overall income inequality decreased, according to new Census Bureau data. In a positive development, the poverty rate for the Black population declined to 17.1 per cent — its lowest level on record — although it remained the highest among the racial groups counted by the Census Bureau.
US takes on Google in landmark antitrust trial

Sep 10, 2023 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

Google faces its biggest ever legal challenge in a Washington court on Tuesday, as it fends off accusations from the US government that it acted unlawfully to build its overwhelming dominance of online search. Over ten weeks of testimony involving more than 100 witnesses, Google will try to persuade a federal judge that the Department of Justice's landmark case is without merit.
World losing high-stakes fight against invasive species

Sep 4, 2023 | canadianaffairs.news | Lauren Heuser

Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a major scientific assessment said Monday. The failure is costing well over $400 billion dollars a year in damages and lost income, and that is likely a "gross underestimation," according to the intergovernmental science advisory panel for the UN Convention on Biodiversity (IPBES).