The Treasury Board yesterday said it had reached a settlement in a multi-million dollar class action claim over the 2020 hacking of 54,057 taxpayers’ accounts. Final costs will be itemized once terms are submitted to a federal judge for approval: "Did these attacks not demonstrate there was a total failure?" READ MORE
Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department in a briefing note says the government will be “establishing safe indoor temperature limits” for people’s homes. A department spokesperson last night said the document was not meant to be taken literally: "To clarify, this wording does not refer to any planned regulation of temperature in homes." READ MORE
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday acknowledged failure in negotiating an end to U.S. tariffs on key sectors like Canadian steel and energy. “We didn’t get that agreement,” he told reporters. READ MORE
Thirty-seven employees at the Department of Justice last year were disciplined for misconduct, says a first-ever report on wrongdoing by federal lawyers. Complaints ranged from faked credentials to a false insurance claim: "We will inevitably learn from this." READ MORE
Federal regulators yesterday fined a bitcoin dealer more than a half million for multiple violations of the Proceeds Of Crime And Terrorist Financing Act. It was among the largest penalties imposed since Parliament first regulated cryptocurrency dealers in 2019: "It is something difficult to understand." READ MORE
Canada’s population shrank slightly since July for the first time since 1971, Statistics Canada said yesterday. Analysts said the decline was due to the flight of thousands of foreign students and migrant workers whose permits had expired: "Every province and territory except Alberta and Nunavut saw population decreases." READ MORE
A York University researcher assigned to work on pro-Palestine reports at taxpayers’ expense called Canada a “racist settler colonial state,” records show. Cabinet advisor Amira Elghawaby met personally with the author and approved the assignment, but yesterday had no comment: "Thank you for the work you are doing." READ MORE
I went to Canadian Tire for some Christmas shopping. On my way out of the store a hot dog vendor said, “Did you see the police lights? There must have been an accident.” And I replied, “Isn’t that a shame, just before Christmas.” The police called the house later that evening. Maybe they were excited school was over for the holidays. Maybe the music was a little too loud. They made a bad left turn at a busy intersection and collided with a fuel truck. The impact blasted the car apart.
