Lumber and steel lobbyists yesterday cautioned senators there is no global substitute for the American market. Canadian automakers have similarly warned production will disappear if the tariff war continues: "Are you saying this is not going to compensate for what we are losing?" READ MORE
NHLer Alexander Ovechkin would be prohibited from playing in Canada as a Putin sympathizer under a Commons petition introduced yesterday. The petition was sponsored without comment by Liberal MP Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre, Ont.), chair of the Canada-Ukraine Friendship Group: "Individuals sanctioned by Canada may be rendered inadmissible to Canada." READ MORE
High rates of foreign hiring at select Tim Hortons restaurants are not typical of all franchisees nationwide, corporate managers said yesterday. The operator of an Eastern Ontario chain of six restaurants wrote in a bankruptcy court filing that migrant workers accounted for up to 83 percent of staff at some outlets: "Figures at these restaurants in question do not reflect the hiring reality." READ MORE
The nation’s largest newspaper chain yesterday said it will end century-old print runs for six Northern Ontario dailies including the legendary North Bay Nugget, and close a regional weekly. The cutbacks at Postmedia Network Inc. follow millions in federal aid: "Decisions that impact our people are difficult." READ MORE
Then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 1995 opposed a federal tax on financial trades and transactions as a non-starter "despite its possible merits," newly-declassified records show. Legislators as recently as 2025 have advocated for a so-called Tobin Tax on a promise of billions in revenue: "Despite its possible merits, its implementation would require unanimity." READ MORE
It’s up to federal departments to decide what text messages they conceal from the public, says the Treasury Board. Electronic records may be destroyed “as appropriate” under a policy drafted 26 years ago: "Isn’t there a risk to destroying text messages? Yes." READ MORE
The Senate human rights committee yesterday spent 1 hour and 27 minutes debating a single executive job cut, eliminating the position of Deputy Chief Human Rights Commissioner left vacant since 2022. The committee was told nobody could remember what the last appointee actually did: "There is nothing spelled out in particular for the Deputy Chief Commissioner to do." READ MORE
We only had the CBC. It was hard to take. That’s all we had. Honest to God, it was deadly. It was also dangerous, absolutely dangerous. You had a situation where the government perpetuated the CBC as a monopoly provider. This was television in Canada. Private TV was not just about making money. It was to liberate the country, to provide new, fresh ideas, to have a new and different perspective on the world. This was like a holy war. They lost.
