A crucial error in cabinet’s 2015 climate plan has now put millions of homeowners at financial risk, says a manager with the Insurance Bureau of Canada. “We were aghast,” the executive told a conference of meteorologists: "The question within our industry is, who is going to insure those new homes?"
The co-chair of the Liberal Party’s national re-election campaign committee yesterday resigned. MP Soraya Martinez Ferrada (Hochelaga, Que.) also quit cabinet as tourism minister and said she is leaving Parliament: "I choose Montréal."
CBC reporters must “exercise caution” in using silly or pointless adjectives to describe witnesses at court, the network’s ombudsman said yesterday. The guidance targeted one reporter who said he liked to write about witnesses’ clothing since “I’m a pretty big fashionista guy.”
The Department of Employment this year will begin sending letters notifying eligible families of automatic school savings accounts. Children born in 2024 are the first to qualify for $500 in automatic savings: "Many eligible families do not open an RESP."
Birju Dattani, former appointee as Canadian Human Rights Commissioner, claims more than $2 million in damages in multiple libel lawsuits stemming from his abrupt suspension last August 8 over comments on Israel and terrorism. Lawyers in Ontario Superior Court claimed Dattani suffered “irreparable harm to his professional reputation.”
Federal crash investigators in an internal report complain road, rail and air accidents attract so much public attention they have to compete with so-called media “experts.” The Transportation Safety Board advised staff to anticipate scrutiny at accident scenes: "Accidents are news."
New CMHC data yesterday confirmed cabinet will not achieve its target on housing affordability. Housing starts nationwide are hundreds of thousands short of minimum levels required with the federal insurer predicting 2025 construction will “slow down.”
Parks Canada yesterday rescinded a purchasing program with Amazon. The new directive came a day after management issued a staff email excitedly announcing the initiative despite cabinet’s appeal to have all Canadians buy local: "Its timing and substance was not sensitive."
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney yesterday promised to hike the defence budget at least 44 percent in four years without cutting any social spending or raising taxes. Carney’s campaign did not explain where it would find the extra billions: "We have our own priorities."
Canada is too dependent on U.S. pipelines and power grids, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said yesterday. Wilkinson said Canadians were left shaken by a threatened 10 percent U.S. tariff on oil, natural gas and hydroelectricity exports: "Perhaps in some areas we are too dependent on infrastructure in particular that flows only through the United States."
Parks Canada cuts its fire preparedness budget 23 percent a year before a disastrous wildfire burned Jasper, Alta., says an internal report. The Agency had boasted of spending millions to mitigate losses before fire destroyed 358 buildings in Jasper and left 40 percent of residents homeless: 'It is one of the most fire prepared and resilient communities in Canada.'
A Parks Canada manager yesterday had no comment after issuing an internal email confirming a “new purchasing program” with Amazon Business. Tamara McNulty, senior director of procurement, announced the initiative 48 hours after the Prime Minister urged the public to buy Canadian: 'When did Jeff Bezos take out Canadian citizenship?'
About half the money improperly billed by a handful of federal subcontractors identified in a 2024 investigation has now been repaid, says a Department of Public Works briefing note. Managers said seven suppliers referred to the RCMP agreed to pay the balance but would not say when: "How concerned are you this could be a widespread problem?"
A Québec constable who announced on Facebook he would not ticket people under the province’s Covid curfew has been banned from policing for a year. A provincial Police Ethics Tribunal noted thousands of Facebook friends shared the protest message: "He wanted to help and support these people, not ‘destroy’ them."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only 36 hours after pledging to lead a Team Canada fight against American tariffs yesterday offered numerous concessions in exchange for a 30-day reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump. No legal text of an agreement was detailed: "We work together."
