The Venezuelan opposition has been “lobbying for sanctions” in Washington against the Maduro government, and now blames him for the economic sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told RT. In an interview with RT Spanish, Arreaza addressed the massive wargames which kicked off across Venezuela earlier on Saturday, bringing together 900,000 people, […]
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Tributes flow for Windsor man who lobbied for assisted-dying rights for mentally ill
An Ontario man who urged the federal government to legalize doctor-assisted dying for people like himself with mental illness has taken his own life. CBC | Health News
Trump’s watered-down ethics rules are letting a lobbyist help run an agency he lobbied
LinkedIn/Screenshot Geoff Burr spent much of the last decade as the chief lobbyist for a powerful construction industry trade group. Burr sought to influence a host of regulations of the Department of Labor, opposing wage standards for federal construction contracts and working against an effort to limit workers’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. In the […]