Federal employees who declined vaccination say they have been ridiculed, harassed and threatened. Workers in a lawyers’ letter to the Treasury Board said suspending unimmunized staff without pay amounted to wrongful dismissal: "There are many reasonable and practical alternatives."
Cabinet will enact an animal cruelty prevention bill to abolish cosmetic testing on live mammals like albino rabbits, says the Department of Health. A Senate bill to ban the practice lapsed in 2019: "In this day and age we have to find alternatives."
Truckers and cabinet members alike are “all in the same convoy,” says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. The Minister declined to speak with protesters demonstrating on Parliament Hill against his vaccine orders, but told reporters: "We're all tired."
Federal call centres still cannot keep up with Employment Insurance claims despite spending more than $620 million on a promise of better service, say MPs. Members of the Commons human resources committee said they would investigate complaints of lengthy wait times: "There is nothing that can explain why."
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday: “Applicants for Summer Jobs program must check a box on the form. Agree with women’s right to abortion…”
If you accept money is the great divider in life – not race, gender or religion – any history of money should expose the core of the Canadian story. It is, and this does. Financial historians Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin of the Rotman School of Management chronicle 300 years of money in Canada with an account rich in anecdotes and telling in its findings.
Canada today is one of the few English-speaking countries with a central bank that is taxpayer-owned. It was money that smashed the two-party system in Parliament a century ago, and regulation that saved Canadians from a sub-Arctic version of the 2008 panic.
MPs yesterday accused media of vilifying protesters attending a Freedom Convoy truckers' rally on Parliament Hill. Reporters at a press briefing described various demonstrators as bigots: "Establishment media have been looking for controversies with some of these truckers."
About a tenth of federal historical designations approved since 1919 will be purged or rewritten including numerous tributes to John A. Macdonald, records show. Revisionism follows a cabinet order to delete history deemed to celebrate colonialism: "Nothing can be immune from review."
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department said it has not yet finalized definitions to fulfill a promised ban on “inefficient” oil and gas subsidies. The work has been ongoing for seven years: "There is no simple set of words."
A Workers’ Compensation Board has been ordered to reconsider suicide as a workplace fatality. The ruling came in the case of a Saskatchewan policeman distraught after attending so many grisly crimes and accident scenes colleagues nicknamed him “Captain Death.”
Historic references to Pocahontas will be removed from signage at an Alberta forest, managers at Parks Canada said yesterday. Removing other names considered dated or awkward will take time, said the agency: 'We encourage Canadians to educate themselves on Canada’s brutal history.'
The Department of Public Safety is contradicting dramatic media accounts of reporters’ arrests at a British Columbia First Nations protest. Staff to Minister Marco Mendicino said media omitted contradictory facts in accusing RCMP of misconduct: "The video does not show what occurred."
Protesters in a cross-country Freedom Convoy to Ottawa are a “small fringe minority” with opinions most Canadians oppose, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday. Organizers of the truckers’ rally called the remarks sad: "It’s the political class that has abandoned us all."
The cost of living will run higher than the Bank of Canada predicted just weeks ago, Governor Tiff Macklem said yesterday. Inflation rates already “uncomfortably high” will top five percent, according to the latest rewritten forecast: "What is it that has made inflation so difficult to predict?"
The Department of Health paid a Chinese manufacturer for more than $11 million worth of vaccine syringes, according to Access To Information records. The disclosure comes ahead of Monday's deadline to begin a federal boycott of China-made medical supplies at federal offices nationwide: "We’ve signed a contract for millions of syringes."
