Canada needed nearly 82,000 homes to shelter new landed immigrants let into the country last year, says the Department of Immigration. The figure was equivalent to more than a third of all new urban housing starts in 2025: "Immigration affects housing." READ MORE
Parks Canada installed hundreds of small cabins at the equivalent of more than $57,000 apiece to encourage overnight visits by people who don't like camping, says an internal audit. Recordkeeping was so poor it was impossible to learn if the agency recovered its costs: "Further exploration of operational and capital costs will be needed." READ MORE
Government-paid publishers are petitioning MPs to maintain annual payroll rebates worth up to $29,750 per newsroom employee. The rebates, initially promised to be temporary, are set to roll back to $13,750 by year’s end: 'Reward those who maintain newsroom employment.' READ MORE
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday proposed a trillion-dollar expansion of the power grid but would not say who would pay for it. Analysts have warned of substantially higher costs for ratepayers: "Get it wrong and Canadians will pay higher utility bills." READ MORE
Hundreds of Muslims in Canada have faced workplace discipline over their political views, says a Department of Justice report. The figure was attributed to an advocacy group: "Individuals have experienced job loss." READ MORE
Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s department in private talks with Chinese authorities said it regretted the “mass grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School,” Access To Information records disclosed yesterday. “Canada strongly urges China not to repeat Canada’s past mistakes,” said one memo. READ MORE
A former Canadian Human Rights Commission appointee has fallen short in his bid to raise $200,000 through crowdfunding to finance multiple defamation suits. Records showed Birju Dattani struggled to raise less than a quarter of the amount $50 and $100 at a time, including one donation under the name of a retired MP: "These are tough times." READ MORE
He could be brutal, but he could be smooth. What a man. He would lace into you if he didn’t agree with you completely, but if he knew there was a little thread of an idea there, then he would join it with his threads. This is the guy with a fantastic brain. He’d put ideas together and it would be beautiful. He loved to play bridge to relax. Once a month he played with friends and kept the scores in his head. Brilliant, oh, he was brilliant. I loved him, and he loved me. That’s Arthur Meighen.
