May 11 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — National Observer — Any time the issue of abortion comes up in the Canadian news cycle, the way we talk about it is riddled with errors, both in terms of its legal history as well as its primary jurisdiction. For starters, many people erroneously believe the Morgentaler decision in 1988 decriminalized abortion, whereas the procedure was actually decriminalized […]
May 8 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — In light of American news about the potential reversal of Roe v. Wade, it’s important that Canadians do not get smug or complacent about abortion access here. The issues in Canada are very different, as the main barriers to abortion are funding and lack of access outside of urban centres, rather than criminality. Additionally, there […]
May 3 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — National Observer — Ontario voters head to the polls on June 2, and as is the case in virtually every election, everyday affordability issues are top of mind for most average voters. What makes this election particularly interesting is that global inflation, coupled with an absolutely bonkers housing market in Ontario, has made the pinch of affordability issues […]
Apr 24 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — Conservatives are incensed over a truck tax that does not exist. The outrage stems from an opinion piece in the Toronto Sun by a director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which claims the federal government is “planning to hit Canadians with a big new tax on their trucks and sport utility vehicles.” The basis for […]
Mar 27 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — On Monday night, CBC’s Vassy Kapelos broke the news that the Liberals and the NDP had come to a confidence-and-supply agreement, basically guaranteeing a functioning Parliament until 2025. Almost instantly, the full gamut of pearl-clutching, hyperbolic reactions from the Conservatives were on display. Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen put out a statement referring to the […]
Mar 13 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — After three straight election losses to the Trudeau Liberals, the Conservative Party of Canada is choosing their third leader in five years. It’s hard for any party to properly regroup after an election and grow its voter base with this amount of churn, but it’s especially hard for a party that can’t even seem to […]
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Feb 27 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — One of the dumbest parts of our federal political discourse over the last few years has been the rampant use of hyperbole to make partisan points. That hyperbole then feeds into an undercurrent of populist rage; mixed in with mis- and disinformation, it makes for an incredibly hostile political atmosphere. Anyone who has been paying […]
Feb 24 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — National Observer — Conservatives across this country largely decided it was good retail politics to align themselves with people occupying the capital and blockading major ports of entry. In addition to being offside with the majority Canadian opinion, Conservatives have spent the better part of the last month putting themselves in some rather embarrassing and largely avoidable situations. […]
Feb 13 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — Conservatives across this country have been trying their hardest to convince Canadians that the country is extremely divided because of vaccine mandates. Maybe Conservatives think Canadians are either too dumb or lazy to look up our vaccination rates. Or maybe it’s because they assume Canadians are fed a steady diet of perpetual outrage in the […]
Jan 30 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — One of the more graphic rape threats I’ve received over the course of my talk radio career involved a reference to burning off my clitoris. It was after I had addressed the false notion that had been circulating in Conservative circles — and was being bolstered by my talk radio colleagues — that Canada signing […]
Jan 24 2022 — Supriya Dwivedi — National Observer — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole recently released a 42-second video decrying the Liberal plan to phase out fossil fuels within the next year and a half, knowing it wasn’t true. O’Toole starts off by telling us the temperature and informing us we live in a cold country before alleging the Liberal government wants to phase out […]
Dec 14 2021 — Supriya Dwivedi — National Observer — Ontarians head to the polls in six months. It’s hard to predict what the public mood will be on June 2 as voters make their way to the ballot box, but it’s safe to say aside from having a chance to weigh in on how they felt the pandemic was managed in the province, issues […]
Dec 5 2021 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — Canadians were reminded once again that irrespective of our high vaccination rate and ensuing cautious optimism, this pandemic is not over. Nearly two years in, we still do not seem to collectively understand that this pandemic will not truly end until the vast majority of the world is inoculated against COVID-19, and/or we get transmission […]
Nov 21 2021 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — Thanks to an introductory microbiology class I took during my undergraduate degree, I have understood the very real threat of a pandemic caused by a novel zoonotic virus, and have been basically preparing for one since 2004. I listened to what my professor had to say then, and have been listening to the gaggle of […]