The largest federal public sector union is challenging a $20,000 cap on damages for breach of human rights law. The Public Service Alliance of Canada in a Federal Court claim said the maximum payout set decades ago was unconstitutional: “This legislation has prevented federally regulated employees and their human rights claimants from obtaining full compensation.”

The Senate in a symbolic shaming has voted to strip former member Don Meredith of his “honourable” title, a Canadian first. No senator spoke in Meredith’s defence: “Do we really want to run into him at state functions or see him still using his title in the public domain?”