The CBC yesterday listed Canadian news publishers it deemed trustworthy and deserving of public support. The list was borrowed from a lobby group that successfully sought a $595 million newspaper bailout: "We provided them with our members."
Activist judges should mind their own business, says the Federal Court of Appeal. “They should stay in their proper place,” wrote Justice David Stratas. “Their place is not in the public square amongst the partisans and the politicians.”
Cabinet yesterday said it will ban six everyday plastic products as environmentally toxic with scores of other items under review. “These are things that are harmful,” Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told reporters: "Action is needed."
More than a third of British Columbians fear family life suffers when women get a full-time job. And most Atlantic Canadians say women aren’t interested in math. The findings are among data in federal research by the Office of Women and Gender Equality: "It is a woman’s job to be responsible for birth control since they are the ones who get pregnant."
One of the longest-serving MPs in the Liberal caucus yesterday warned cabinet cannot “simply pile up debt”. Eight-term MP John McKay, chair of the Commons public safety committee, said constituents have asked: “How are we going to pay for this?”
Parliament has paid more than $186 million in rebates to electric car buyers without any public estimate of the climate change impact. The Department of Transport yesterday did not comment: "The objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, right?"
Department of Industry claims of mammoth job creation from corporate subsidies don’t add up, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Actual jobs will be about half the number claimed, said analysts: 'The nature of these jobs is unknown at this point.'
The House affairs committee yesterday by a 6-5 vote further delayed disclosure of We Charity documents. A lone New Democrat MP Rachel Blaney (North Island-Powell River, B.C.) cast the deciding vote: "I do have some concerns."
A Liberal appointee yesterday called the Senate the “most colonialistic institution in Canada”. Dr. Mary Jane McCallum (Man.) complained of heavy-handed politicking within a so-called Independent Senators Group rife with “elitism and privilege”, she said.
Cabinet’s parliamentary secretary for finance last night called income inequality a plague in Canada. The Liberal MP appeared to express support for a federal inheritance tax abolished by Parliament forty-eight years ago: "We will not be afraid."
More than 21,000 health care workers have been infected with the coronavirus and at least sixteen have died, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions said yesterday. Nurses blamed the “preventable failure” in part on the Public Health Agency’s refusal to stockpile pandemic masks and other supplies: "They weren't ready."
Canada’s former ambassador to China retweeted a jibe pondering the death of U.S. President Donald Trump. The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday did not comment: "China's great."
Canada accounts for about four-tenths of one percent of ocean plastic pollution worldwide, a federal report said yesterday: "Canadian shores are not a major global source of marine plastic litter."
A private bill to lower the voting age has been reintroduced in Parliament for the fourth time in five years. A Senate sponsor said allowing 16-year olds to vote would create a “high-functioning Canada”.
Homeownership rates for young people have not declined, and the typical Canadian under 34 is more likely to own a home than young people in other G7 countries, says a Department of Finance report. The 2019 Access To Information memo contradicts CMHC claims: "Youth homeownership rates are relatively high."
