The Federal Court says it will see a record 30,000 immigration cases this year, five times the average. Administrators served notice of long delays in paperwork affecting all plaintiffs and defendants: "This persistent surge is causing significant and sustained operational pressures on the Court."
A charity assigned to crowdfund renovations to 24 Sussex Drive will solicit donations from federally-regulated corporations, records show. Prime Minister Mark Carney, former director of the Rideau Hall Foundation, denied any conflict: "They will be raising funds."
Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a Commons ethics committee probe on whether he stands to personally benefit from a proposed $1.45 billion taxpayers' bailout of distressed condos in Metro Vancouver. Carney told reporters he had no idea of whether trustees managing his stock portfolio were speculating in British Columbia real estate: "I actually don’t know whether or not I have an actual conflict, thank you."
A Liberal-appointed trustee who quit the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an anti-Israel exhibit says he was “berated by board members for my views.” Mark Berlin, former director with the federal Department of Justice, told a B’nai Brith podcast the Museum was “a tool of propaganda.”
Banks effective next year will be compelled to obtain depositors’ permission for electronic transfers. The anti-fraud measure follows legal rulings regarding bankers’ duty of care owed their customers: "The true number of fraud instances in Canada could be between 1.1 million and 2.2 million."
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: “Join the celebration this Canada day. Do the little things that make a difference, a flag in hand, a pin to the collar…”
Canadians have a complex relationship with success and failure. That’s strange in a capitalist society where city life is a weekly succession of petty contests. Success is caricatured as a triumph of positive thinking that culminates in a prize, like winning on Dragon’s Den. Failure is a vaguely shameful exhibition of personal weakness: “The Morgans lost their house!”
Neither is accurate. Winners and losers strive, and even successful people fail from time to time. Billy Durant, the Michigan wagon maker who created General Motors, went bankrupt in 1936 and ended his career as manager of a bowling alley. It must have been a well-run bowling alley. Successful people like to run things.
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday denied he was ever lobbied by developers to endorse a $1.45 billion plan to buy distressed Vancouver condos at taxpayers’ expense. Carney did not say if he personally held shares in any British Columbia development as he does in Ontario: "Mark Carney helped build this system."
The Department of National Defence in a newly-declassified report described Ukraine as a “no man’s land” of organized crime and political corruption. The confidential document was written in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union: "Bribery and theft are rife."
Federal regulators yesterday disclosed the Royal Bank paid $4.25 million in fines for overcharging hundreds of thousands of credit card customers in breach of the Bank Act. It was the largest fine to date against RBC: 'It reflects significant harm to customers.'
The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday would not disclose the cost of reopening a consulate in Phoenix that was closed 14 years ago to save taxpayers’ money. The new Arizona office follows an internal audit that complained of costly missions in the United States: "Canada maintains a large mission footprint in the United States requiring considerable effort and expenditures."
Muttering that you’d like to kill your boss is not an automatic firing offence, a British Columbia labour board has ruled. The decision came in the case of a North Vancouver cleaning lady, 60, fired last Christmas after a bad day at work: "She does not pose a danger."
Cabinet should adopt as a principle the validity of “Indigenous laws,” says a Canadian Human Rights Commission report. “Indigenous ways of life and Indigenous laws are not seen as valid as Canadian law,” wrote the Commission.
First Nations schools operated by Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s department have failed an audit for the second time in five years. Records show the federal system spends 29 percent more per capita than the national average yet has the highest dropout rate in Canada: "There has not been measurable improvement over time."
Statistics Canada yesterday declined comment regarding profane, anti-Israel Twitter posts by a Vancouver employee. “We do not comment on specific cases including internal investigations,” a spokesperson said.
