J.P. Tasker
@JPTasker
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Senior reporter in the @CBCPolitics parliamentary bureau. Secretary of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Proud 🇨🇦. Email: jp.tasker@cbc.ca
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined October 2010
There are thousands of special and advance vote ballots to come, including in some of the seats with razor-thin margins. In Hamilton East, for example, there are still 4,800 special ballots left to count. Same can be said for Windsor-Tecumseh — 3,500 ballots left to count there.
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RT @CBCNews: Nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from Canada into the U.S. in February compared to the same month last….
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Nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from Canada into the U.S. in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the...
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RT @meredithhealey: Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi now saying Trudeau should resign. That makes 21 dissenting Liberals MPs. #pnp #CBC
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P.E.I. MP Heath MacDonald is also telling me he wants Trudeau to go. That makes 18 MPs calling for a leadership change -- so far: #cdnpoli.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet Friday, multiple sources have told CBC News. He's got big gaps to fill on his front bench after a spate of resignations in recent months,...
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Another Liberal has joined the growing list of MPs who want Trudeau to go. MP Sophie Chatel tells me it's time for him to step aside as leader. "I believe it is in the best interest of both the party and the country for the prime minister to initiate a leadership change.".
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BREAKING: Bloc Québécois win longtime Liberal seat and deliver a stunning blow to Trudeau. #cdnpoli.
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Voters have dealt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau another devastating byelection loss, this time picking a Bloc Québécois candidate in a Montreal riding that's been held by the Liberals for most of the...
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NEW: Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result. #cdnpoli.
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Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the longtime federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto–St. Paul's, a stunning result that raises questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's future.
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RT @natnewswatch: Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result. Stunning result raises quest….
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BREAKING: Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result, CBC News projects.
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RT @iamSas: Toronto voters say federal byelection is a referendum on Justin Trudeau's future.If June 24 vote in Toronto-St. Paul’s doesn’t….
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The upcoming Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection will be a critical test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his party — a bellwether indicating how the party is faring in an area of the country...
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RT @natnewswatch: Hours on hold and endless queues: Canadians still grappling with poor passport service. Long waits to speak to someone on….
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Freeland's new federal budget hikes taxes on the rich to cover billions in new spending. #cdnpoli.
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fourth budget delivers a big-ticket housing program for millennials and Generation Z voters — a multi-billion dollar commitment to be paid for in part with a tax...
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Brian Mulroney, one of Canada's most consequential prime ministers, is dead at 84. #cdnpoli.
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Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs — has died. He was 84.
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Meet some of the 6 million Canadians who don't have a family doctor. #cdnpoli.
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More than six million Canadians report that they do not have regular access to primary care physicians. It's a crisis the experts say has caused untold harm and preventable cases of death and disease...
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Foreign doctors take up more medical residency spots as Canadians struggle to get in. #cdnpoli.
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The country's medical schools turn away more than 1,000 Canadian doctors trained abroad annually, even though the country is facing a physician shortage. But they still manage to find residency spots...
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RT @picardonhealth: Foreign doctors take up more medical residency spots as Canadians struggle to get in. The number of foreign ‘visa train….
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The country's medical schools turn away more than 1,000 Canadian doctors trained abroad annually, even though the country is facing a physician shortage. But they still manage to find residency spots...
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