An Alberta judge has imposed a $1,750 fine for illegal voting. The maximum penalty under federal law is $2,000 and three months’ jail: “A lot of this is just a misunderstanding.”
Digital Services Minister Joyce Murray privately complained Canada was too reliant on contractors in China for urgently needed pandemic supplies, according to internal emails. Murray questioned why Canada did not award contracts to suppliers in Taiwan, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of personal protective equipment: “Minister Murray is concerned.”
The Department of Justice is spending the equivalent of more than $15,000 a week in ongoing litigation with former students of an Indian Residential School, according to Access To Information records. Weekly billings by federal lawyers are more than total compensation paid to individuals in other Residential School settlements: “The government has endless dollars to fight.”
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland faces investigation by the Commissioner of Elections over a social media post tagged by Twitter as fake news. The Canada Elections Act prohibits any person from knowingly making a false statement to influence voters. Freeland posted a deceptively edited interview clip of Conservative leader Erin O’Toole that Twitter called a case of video manipulation: “This is completely wrong.”
Canadians paid off billions in debt despite the Covid recession, Statistics Canada said yesterday. Consumers appeared to use pandemic relief cheques to pay down balances on their credit cards, analysts said: “Many households used this opportunity.”
Taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain Corporation will require “further financing” though a planned expansion of its British Columbia oil pipeline is less than half complete, according to documents. Cabinet to date has not detailed total costs of the pipeline bought by cabinet three years ago for $4.5 billion: “Is the sky the limit?”
The Department of Foreign Affairs closed its embassy in Kabul though it knew Canadian citizens remained trapped inside Afghanistan. Cabinet had claimed all Canadians were “safely on their way back to Canada.” The department would not account for poor planning after a 2019 federal report correctly predicted Afghanistan “could collapse quickly” once U.S. forces withdrew: “The only reason rockets are not raining down on Kabul today is because of the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan.”
Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office complained it was “totally unacceptable” for the Public Health Agency to offer medical advice without first checking with political aides, according to 2020 internal emails. Staff debated whether to order removal of a web page recommending essential workers wear Covid masks when federal agencies knew masks were in short supply: “They’re not ready.”
The Department of Natural Resources in a briefing note says it’s relying on private landowners to help fulfill a Liberal Party promise from the last election campaign to plant two billion trees. The department earlier acknowledged it had no detailed plan to ensure “the right tree is planted in the right place.”
We Charity has served libel notice on a Toronto publisher who first disclosed payments of six-figure talent fees to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family. A lawyer for the Kielburger brothers accused Canadaland of a “pastiche of falsehoods” in a podcast: “We are extremely concerned.”
Voters in select ridings in high-growth provinces are heavily underrepresented in Parliament, according to Elections Canada data released Saturday. Constituency boundaries are up for revision beginning in 2022 based on new Census figures: ‘The goal is each electoral district contains roughly the same number of people.’
My mailbox,
1 terabyte.
Indicator says
I use 0.05% of the storage space,
leaving room
for 54 million more emails.
If I live for another 50 years,
I would need 3,000 messages a day
to reach capacity.
Got 3 today.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday)
The Department of Health will pay burial costs for Canadians killed by federally-approved vaccines. “Serious and permanent vaccine injuries are rare but as with any medical product they do occur,” staff wrote in a briefing note: “The program will provide death benefits and support for funeral expenses.”
Cabinet aides in internal emails said federal agencies should keep quiet about donations of pandemic supplies from China. The messages were prompted by Liberal MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.) who questioned why Canada was not celebrating charity by Chinese corporations: “We aren’t touting any.”
Hockey Canada is asking a federal judge to seal records detailing what it does with millions in subsidies. The governing body in a rare Federal Court application claimed it faced “material financial loss” if information was disclosed: ‘Ask how they spent the $9 million.’
