The number of landed immigrants let into Canada last year totaled 393,500, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said yesterday. The figure was almost a quarter less than the 500,000 quota set prior to 2024 cuts: "My job has been made quite easy." READ MORE
Cabinet’s bid to engineer majority control of Parliament rests in a looming byelection in a Montréal suburb, Terrebonne, where Liberals won by a single vote over the Bloc Québécois in 2025. “We have a certain weight,” Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet earlier told reporters. READ MORE
The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation of Kamloops, B.C. yesterday confirmed it has not attempted to exhume the purported graves of 215 children at the site of an Indian Residential School despite receiving $12.1 million in federal funding for field work. The admission comes ahead of the scheduled release of Access To Information documents regarding the First Nation’s requests for funding for “exhumation of remains.” READ MORE
The CBC is entitled to conceal internal details of corporate spending under the Access To Information Act, says a federal judge. The ruling came on a legal challenge by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to find how much the CBC spent on advertising while executives pled financial hardship: 'Disclosure could result in political interference and pressure to modify its spending.' READ MORE
The Canada Revenue Agency is revising the scope of audits to target the largest multinational corporations with offshore accounts. The initiative follows internal complaints that auditors misspent time chasing smaller corporations: "There have to be decisions about the fairness of the regime." READ MORE
Pay and benefits averaged more than $143,000 per federal employee last year, the Budget Office said yesterday. It was “historically high,” wrote analysts: "An employee can have seven levels of management above them." READ MORE
Refugee claims by travelers passing through Canadian airports fell 73 percent after cabinet reintroduced a Mexican visa requirement, records show. Inland claims also declined as cabinet cut foreign study permits at colleges and universities: "Ineligibility measures are about protecting the asylum system." READ MORE
I will never forget the 1993 campaign. It was electric. There was a cry for change and tempers ran high. I got into a fight with one voter on his own front porch. And I learned never to campaign in bars. Alcohol brings out cynicism in the electorate. When we almost killed the Conservative Party, the hunger for change was genuine. We won 2,559,245 votes from Canadians who sought to reform forever the way Ottawa worked. It’s a shame we failed to do it. There’s a proverb that reform movements are like bees: They sting and then they die.
