Average spot prices for regular gasoline have jumped 24 percent since the outbreak of war in Iran, the Department of Natural Resources said yesterday. Diesel is up 28 percent: "Obviously this could affect growth and inflation." READ MORE
No More Trudeau Taxes: MPs
The Commons industry committee is recommending cabinet reverse a decade of Trudeau-era tax policy. Canada should be more competitive with the United States, wrote MPs: 'Examine the impact of tax rates on entrepreneurship.' READ MORE
53,044 Want Defectors Out
More than 53,000 Canadians have petitioned the Commons to force floor-crossers to face a byelection. Thousands signed following the March 10 defection of New Democrat MP Lori Idlout (Nunavut) to the Liberal caucus: "Voters deserve immediate accountability." READ MORE
Lewis Fundraising Tops $1M
Vancouver activist Avi Lewis has attracted more New Democrat donors than all other contenders combined in final balloting for the Party leadership, federal filings show. Lewis raised more than a million, typically in small contributions under $100, with his campaign to “tax the rich.” READ MORE
Want Firefighting Federalized
Parliament should federalize forest firefighting, say insurers. Petitions to the Commons environment committee followed in-house Privy Council polling on creating a new Canadian version of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency: "Canada has already entered an era of record-breaking natural disasters with no signs of slowing." READ MORE
Economy Is A ‘Rights Crisis’
Canada’s economy is so poor it represents a “human rights crisis,” says the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The agency in a report said inflation, housing shortages and rising poverty rates had put the “the fundamental human right to an adequate standard of living at risk.” READ MORE
Work From Home At $4M/yr
Assigning federal employees to work from home cost the equivalent of more than $4.3 million a year, records show. Expenses included providing staff with laptops, office chairs, printer supplies and other equipment: 'This included direction on how to ensure safe and ergonomic workspaces at home.' READ MORE
Guest Commentary
The Charter Of Rights in Canada is all about minority rights, not majority rights. The idea that Parliament wants to deal with all these difficult issues is simply a fiction. There’s been a lot of criticism of so-called judicial activism. This is but one example. They said we were reckless. I realized the sky was not going to fall. I mean, there are times when the courts have to act. To me it was an issue we didn’t need to go on debating indefinitely.
