As inflation rates soar to the highest they’ve been in Canada in forty years, nearly half of Canadians say that right now, they’re doing worse financially than they were at this time last year.
A further third say they expect things to get even worse in the coming year, the largest number of people to answer this way in more than a decade.
Four crucial pages of a senior Mountie’s notes were missing the first time the federal Department of Justice sent them to the public inquiry looking into the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
The key section included allegations the head of the RCMP promised politicians the force would release information about guns used during the April 2020 rampage.
The Mass Casualty Commission said the federal government sent 132 pages of Supt. Darren Campbell’s handwritten notes in mid-February 2022, but that the file had no references to a meeting with Commissioner Brenda Lucki on April 28, 2020.
In a recent podcast interview, my American host asked me to comment on whether Canada constituted a nation, in the substantive sense. Beyond platitudes such as a shared commitment to multiculturalism, general good government, and a thin conception of liberty, there is not much there there, I reflected. No, there isn’t really a singular Canadian nation, I answered.
But I was oversimplifying: the fact is that Canada is a nation that contains many nations. The compromises of federalism as set out in the Constitution were specifically designed to accommodate the vast regional and cultural differences across our equally vast land and, for the most part, have held up well.
However, proposals in Alberta and Quebec are starting to nip at the fabric of our constitutional order. Both provinces are, as one academic recently put it, apparently treating the Constitution as a “buffet that one can pick and choose from”, rather than a blueprint for how power flows in a state.
Justin Trudeau says people who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 must accept the consequences of those decisions, including lost employment and restricted access to transportation and other services.
“It was their choice and nobody ever was going to force anyone into doing something they don’t want to do,” the prime minister said in an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing on Saturday.
“But there are consequences when you don’t. You cannot choose to put at risk your co-workers. You cannot choose to put at risk the people sitting beside you on an airplane,” Trudeau said before leaving for international summits in Africa and Europe.
The federal government announced on Tuesday June 14 that COVID-related travel restrictions in place since Oct. 30, 2021 will be ending. Specifically, the government is ending the requirement to show proof of vaccination for domestic travel on planes and trains, for outbound international travel, and ending the vaccine mandate for transport workers and federal government employees.
The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications held an exceptionally important hearing as part of its Bill C-11 pre-study (which is about to change into a Bill C-11 study) last night featuring Canadian Heritage officials and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. I will have a second post on the officials, who struggled to provide clear answers to basic questions on everything from how to identify what counts as Cancon for user content (Youtube’s Content ID was suggested) to the absence of thresholds for what is covered by the bill (there are no thresholds and the government wants the ability to also target small streamers). But the key moment of the day came in questioning Scott about the discoverability and the potential for algorithmic manipulation.
Fox News’ Outnumbered took on Canada’s recent move to ban one-use plastic products, like straws, during a segment on Wednesday that ended with the co-hosts agreeing paper straws are terrible and Canada is dabbling in authoritarianism.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government had questions about the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia but remained adamant his government did not interfere in the investigation.
His comments come as a Nova Scotia Mountie and the former director of communications claim there was political pressure coming from Ottawa over what to say in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau forges ahead with his plan to eliminate single-use plastics from the environment, his own government says the policy will double the waste it creates and double the cost to taxpayers to dispose of it.
This guy gets it. I’ve said it before, it’s a spiritual war, they have waged war on our kids, the elderly, women, the vulnerable, the poor, our standard of living, travel, hospitality, privacy and on anyone who questions the narrative. pic.twitter.com/VOjSudbhkg
— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) June 21, 2022
The Liberal government and RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki are denying they interfered in the criminal investigation of the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia to advance the government’s agenda.
I don’t buy that denial for a minute.
The national police force has a decades-old record of politicizing criminal investigations, from burning a barn while snooping on the Parti Québécois in the 1970s to announcing it was investigating then-finance minister Ralph Goodale in the middle of the 2006 federal election.
OTTAWA – A federal research unit detected what might be a Chinese Communist Party information operation that aimed to discourage Canadians of Chinese heritage from voting for the Conservatives in the last federal election.
The Sept. 13, 2021, analysis by Rapid Response Mechanism Canada, which tracks foreign interference, says researchers observed Communist Party media accounts on Chinese social media platform Douyin widely sharing a narrative that the Conservatives would all but sever diplomatic relations with Beijing.
The report, obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, was prepared just a week before Canadians went to the polls.
A group of Conservative Party of Canada MPs met with some of the people planning protests in Ottawa this summer, including organizers of the Freedom Convoy that occupied downtown streets earlier this year.
James Topp, a veteran marching across Canada to protest against remaining vaccine mandates, is set to end his journey on June 30 but he drove into Ottawa Wednesday to take part in the meetings.
He was joined by Paul Alexander, a former official in U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration, and Tom Marazzo, who served 25 years in the Canadian Forces and had a failed bid as an Ontario MPP candidate.
Oh no!
A leaked intelligence report says officials are worried about the so-called “freedom convoy” heading back to Canada’s capital next week.
Canadian authorities are preparing for the imminent return of the anti-vaccine convoy, warning that increasingly violent rhetoric from extremist groups aligned with the movement could pose a threat to politicians, police, and civilians.
For most of us, the events that took place in Portapique, N.S., in April 2020 constituted the worst mass murder in Canadian history. For RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, however, they may have been seen as a marketing opportunity. According to a recent report by the Mass Casualty Commission, the head of our national police force was willing to use the RCMP to market Liberal legislation before it hit the books. The story is a sign that change is desperately needed in the top ranks of the RCMP.
The vast majority of Canadian households, especially those with kids, are worried about feeding their families amid decades-high inflation, according to a new survey.
Polling from Ipsos conducted exclusively for Global News earlier this month shows that 72 per cent of families with kids are worried about putting food on the table after inflation hit decades-high levels of 6.8 per cent in April. That compares with 57 per cent of households without children.
