The Public Health Agency in an April 30 memo said measles was not “widespread across Canada” despite a 2025 outbreak. Canada’s loss of measles-free status with the World Health Organization was merely a “classification used to guide surveillance,” it said.
An unidentified automaker is drafting a secret plan to export Canadian-made passenger cars to Asia and the Middle East, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said yesterday. MPs on the Commons industry committee expressed skepticism: "No company has come to any committee on Parliament Hill or gone to the media to suggest that this is a viable business plan."
Canadians are resigned to failure in eliminating U.S. tariffs, says in-house Privy Council research. Federal focus groups were unable to reach any consensus on whether Prime Minister Mark Carney was “on the right track” after promising to negotiate a win for Canada: "Few thought that it was likely that an agreement could be achieved where all tariffs would be removed."
Parliament has no business policing political speech to ensure its truthfulness, Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon said yesterday. It was up to voters, not the House of Commons, to “determine the truthfulness of claims” by public office holders, he said.
The Commons yesterday by a vote of 199 to 139 rejected a Conservative motion to sustain property rights after a judge granted Indigenous title to 1,846 acres near Richmond, B.C. including private lots. One cabinet minister said she “agrees with some of the principles of the motion” but would not debate a judgment under appeal: "We recognize the Cowichan decision has caused uncertainty and anxiety."
The Department of Employment says its Canada Summer Jobs program does help student hiring through 50 percent wage subsidies but cannot say how many jobs it creates. A first-ever analysis called it “a good policy tool” at more than a quarter billion a year: "How do you know if the program is achieving its objectives without measuring exactly that?"
Cabinet will not disclose the budget for the June 8 swearing-in of the new Governor General. The ceremony is the first of its kind since Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to cut spending and “make tough choices.”
Mark Carney misidentified the first Alberta prime minister in a videotaped tribute to “great Albertans,” records show. Carney’s office could not name the first Alberta prime minister when asked: "I think when I come to Parliament of the great Albertans."
Parliament should withhold federal funding from municipalities that fail to build more homes, says the Canadian Human Rights Commission. It promoted a variation of a 2025 campaign proposal by the Opposition to reward local authorities that build and punish those that don't: "Municipal governments would be required to demonstrate concrete progress."
Indigenous Canadians should be formally consulted on all new foreign treaties, the Assembly of First Nations has told the Senate. Consultation with chiefs must be mandatory, they said: "First Nations have engaged in trade since time immemorial."
New CRTC data confirm a sharp generational divide between Canadians who rely on TV newscasts and those who get their news on the internet. “A lower proportion used regular television as a primary source for their news and information content,” said in-house research.
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: “The news channel brings stories from the storm into my living room. My eyes to the screen; my heart skips a beat…”
Police were not infrequent visitors to author Cheri DiNovo’s childhood home. All families have troubles but DiNovo’s make Angela’s Ashes look like a holiday camp. “I grew up in a violent, neurotic, narcissistic household where victims of their own personal traumas acted out in nasty, aggressive ways,” she writes. “This is not to blame any of them.”
Take Uncle Ken, one of the more responsible adults in the home. “It was Ken who took me to dance classes, Ken who took us shopping, Ken who drove us up to the family cottage and stayed with us there, Ken who financially supported us, Ken who always arrived at breakfast at the same time,” writes DiNovo.
“My breakfast was Sugar Crisp, white toast and milk. His, brown toast and coffee. It was also Ken who, one day as I was slurping down my second bowl of cereal, picked up a knife and slashed my Aunt Lorna across the neck.”
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board holds shares in a Chinese social media company used by Communist Party agents to intimidate Conservatives in the last election, records show. The Board had no comment on millions invested in operators of WeChat, a platform used to distribute wanted posters of one candidate who was forced to suspend his campaign: 'The RCMP intercepted a credible threat to harm me during the election.'
Attorney General Sean Fraser yesterday said he feared some future justice minister will use federal hate crimes legislation to settle scores with environmental groups or political opponents. Fraser did not identify any person by name: "Those are dangerous conversations."
