Canada Revenue Agency managers in an attempt at humour recommended employees play CRA bingo and shower regularly at home. The Agency did not comment on its Christmas newsletter: "Wow, just when I thought government could not get any worse."
The Department of Health was so overwhelmed by demands for Covid-19 testing it asked marijuana growers for help, according to internal briefing notes. Health officials publicly claimed Canada’s testing regime was among the best in the world: "Producers put up their hands to help out."
A quarter of federally-regulated private sector employees will be exempt from “work-life balance” regulations passed by Parliament two years ago, says the labour department. Transport companies complained the rules couldn’t apply in 24-7 trades: "Many employers raised significant concerns."
A Cape Breton court knocked 45 percent off legal fees in a real estate transaction after ruling charges must be fair and reasonable. “To use a good Nova Scotian expression, the title was not rocket surgery,” wrote the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday: “It the NDP would have built the Coliseum, there would have been the Union of Quarry Workers…”
The Public Health Agency in an internal memo recommended nurses wear aprons due to a shortage of medical gowns. The Agency shipped date-expired gowns to provinces after failing to stock up: "Health care workers could consider wearing an apron."
CMHC spent two years researching a new name then hid the costs from a parliamentary committee, internal emails show. The disclosures are detailed in Access To Information records obtained by Conservative MP Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard): "We don't want THAT."
Federal regulators quietly granted fish farmers a waiver to use an unlicensed pesticide in the name of protecting Canada’s food supply. The waiver follows a 2018 audit that cited poor monitoring of pesticides in coastal waters: "How can they know?"
Nine out of ten Prince Edward Islanders would take the Covid-19 vaccine if they could get it, but only two-thirds of Manitobans are willing. Statistics Canada yesterday documented a range of Canadians who said they were “very likely or somewhat likely” to get a shot: "Anti-vaccine sentiment is a challenge."
The Canada Revenue Agency yesterday estimated $28.7 billion a year in federal tax is never collected. Actual tax avoidance is likely worth billions more, according to Budget Office research: "The CRA refuses to be transparent."
Authorities will not disclose executive pay for the Canadian CEO of a money losing door-to-door sales company in Nairobi that received millions in federal funding. Jesse Moore, a former Toronto child activist, earlier served in a youth leaders’ group with We Charity co-founder Craig Kielburger: "I could conquer the world."
Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and staff took more than $100,000 worth of flights in the past year, records show. “It should not be free to pollute,” Wilkinson said earlier in announcing a 240 percent increase in the carbon tax.
Bill Morneau is dodging an MPs’ request to reappear for questioning over his involvement with We Charity, a member of the Commons ethics committee said yesterday. The ex-finance minister abruptly resigned August 17 under threat of a censure motion: "You need to come back and explain."
The Department of Environment claims Canadians suffer climate change “eco-anxiety” and have been driven to suicide by extreme heat. Staff provided no supporting data: "Urgency of the climate change challenge cannot be overstated."
An Alberta judge yesterday dismissed a Charter challenge of a mandatory mask bylaw. The lawsuit was thrown out as “an abuse of the Court.”
