Sep 27 2021 — Supriya Dwivedi — Toronto Star — Unlike episodes of “Seinfeld,” elections are never about nothing. While our 44th general election might have felt like it didn’t accomplish much in light of the final seat count, it is false to suggest that this vote doesn’t hold valuable lessons for regular Canadians and politicos alike in the future. One of the major underpinnings […]
Mar 11 2020 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — At the onset of the outbreak, when it (falsely) seemed like the novel coronavirus was solely a problem for mainland China, regular people were very quick to make racist and xenophobic comments, and in some cases even partake in racist acts against Chinese Canadians. But the real risk was never from China, or Iran, or […]
Sep 18 2019 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — As the federal election campaign kicked off, Quebec Premier François Legault all but dared the federal leaders to stay out of the court challenges facing Bill 21, formally titled An Act Respecting the Laicity of the State and informally known as Quebec’s most recent attempt at enshrining discrimination against religious minorities into law.
Sep 13 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — By now, you’ve probably been made aware of the fact that the newly minted premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, is invoking the notwithstanding clause in order to override a Superior Court decision which quashed his initial attempt at slashing Toronto city council while a municipal election was already underway.
Jul 19 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — A cabinet shuffle is the kind of thing that only excites the nerdiest of political nerds, so you would be excused if you were enjoying your summer instead of reading into the subtleties of what this cabinet shuffle might mean for the federal election scheduled for Oct. 21, 2019. One thing is clear, though: the […]
Jul 13 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Fulfilling yet another campaign promise, the Progressive Conservative government confirmed earlier this week that for the coming school year, students in Ontario would not be learning the updated sex education curriculum that had been revamped and reintroduced in 2015. Instead, students will be learning a curriculum that dates back to 1998. That’s an era that […]
Jun 29 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Once upon a time, in an era before Trump was elected president of the United States, Canadians were innocently unaware of the notion of deceitful political tricks, there were no dog whistle politics, and everyone got along wonderfully. Then Donald Trump came along, and all of a sudden our political sphere took a sharp turn […]
May 17 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Carbon taxes have been unpopular for a while. Up until recently, though, not being a fan of carbon taxes, or believing them to be nothing other than a tax grab, was largely relegated to the right side of the political spectrum.
Apr 12 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Tuesday, the centre of the universe, otherwise colloquially referred to as Toronto, got word that former mayor, Rob Ford, was going to be played by Homeland and Billions star Damian Lewis in an upcoming film. It’s an interesting casting choice; apparently, Lewis will be fitted with prosthetics of some sort in order to realistically portray […]
Mar 2 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — One of the worst trips to India I ever had involved a lizard climbing up the inside of my pant leg, a terrifyingly aggressive and determined monkey who stole a special edition Chicago Bulls cap right off of my head, two separate bouts of lice, a rickshaw accident that literally landed me in a pile […]
Feb 15 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Twitter outrage is nothing new. It’s as old as the platform itself. What is new though, is having swaths of people coming together from different political stripes to admonish the country’s first and only female prime minister, who had seemingly found her stride online as a woke observer of political events, for making an arguably […]
Feb 8 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — For the last few weeks now the Prime Minister has been going all over the country to engage Canadians during town hall-style question and answer periods. Last week at a town hall stop in Edmonton, Prime Minister Trudeau responded tongue in cheek to a questioner by asking her to refer to mankind as peoplekind.
Feb 1 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Late in 2017 the federal government announced it would be implementing changes to the Canada Summer Jobs program. After it had been widely reported that past recipients of the tax-payer funded subsidy had used the funds to advance the cause of limiting women’s reproductive rights, the program garnered criticism.
Jan 25 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — On a day in which much of social media was focused on the sentencing of a monstrous sexual predator it seemed almost surreal to have not one but two Progressive Conservative leaders go down amid serious sexual misconduct allegations. First, the news out of Nova Scotia was that PC leader Jamie Baillie had resigned. After […]
Jan 12 2018 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — Earlier this month the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to declare Jan. 29 – which would mark the one-year anniversary of the Quebec City mosque massacre – a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.