The post office says it has agreed to a compounded 9.7 percent two-year pay increase for its largest union. It comes ahead of another emergency loan from cabinet: "How much funding is being discussed for this additional loan?"
Elections Canada is ordering millions of ballot box seals in case of a 2026 general election, a spokesperson said. It would be the fourth national campaign in seven years: "Is it time to go?"
Parliamentary floor-crossers would face a mandatory byelection under a Commons petition sponsored by Conservative MP Lianne Rood (Middlesex-London, Ont.). Floor-crossing in the aftermath of the last general election was “raising concerns of opportunism over principle,” wrote petitioners.
New Democrats in a final report on the 2025 election campaign conclude the Party was “too closely linked” to Justin Trudeau and out of touch with taxpayers. The report did not single out then-leader Jagmeet Singh for specific criticism, but stated: “It is indisputable that Conservative messaging on jobs and identity is resonating with many workers.”
Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin on Saturday served legal notice that cabinet will again allow the manufacture of straws and other plastic goods in Canada, but only for export to the United States: "A prohibition on export would result in economic harms."
A federal judge has dismissed a bid by a U.S. Indigenous group to delay expansion of the Port of Vancouver, largest in the nation. However the Federal Court sidestepped a larger issue of whether Indigenous Americans from border states have rights in Canada: 'These are questions for another day.'
Poet Shai Ben-Shalom, writes: “She is the Swedish teenager who crossed the Atlantic in a zero-emission voyage. Making a statement about the carbon footprint of planes…”
The Depression, not the war, left the deepest scars on an entire generation of Canadians. Survivors carried indelible memories of the collapse of capitalism. My mother, raised on a Manitoba farmstead, years afterward could not bear to throw out tin foil pie plates: “That’s wasteful,” she warned. My father-in-law cursed TV episodes of The Waltons that depicted poor but cheerful townsfolk who had love, if not money: “It wasn’t anything like that,” he muttered. “I was there and it wasn’t like that.”
The broad strokes of the Depression years are part of the nation’s memory, preserved in schoolbook texts and grainy newsreels: hobos on freight cars, police on horseback, dust storms and factory closures. Yet it’s the fine details that paint the most vivid picture of whole communities brought to their knees by an economic calamity unmatched in its cruelty.
Historian Todd McCallum of Dalhousie University has written a startling book. Hobohemia documents the Dustbowl Years in British Columbia, a “homeland for beggars,” he calls it, where thousands of jobless settled in shantytowns at the railways’ last stop. “Everywhere I turned, archives offered me dusty examples of a multitude of ways of seeing the hobo jungle as an island unto itself, something simultaneously connected to and separate from ‘society,’ whatever one took that to mean.”
The Treasury Board yesterday said it had reached a settlement in a multi-million dollar class action claim over the 2020 hacking of 54,057 taxpayers’ accounts. Final costs will be itemized once terms are submitted to a federal judge for approval: "Did these attacks not demonstrate there was a total failure?"
Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s department in a briefing note says the government will be “establishing safe indoor temperature limits” for people’s homes. A department spokesperson last night said the document was not meant to be taken literally: "To clarify, this wording does not refer to any planned regulation of temperature in homes."
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday acknowledged failure in negotiating an end to U.S. tariffs on key sectors like Canadian steel and energy. “We didn’t get that agreement,” he told reporters.
Thirty-seven employees at the Department of Justice last year were disciplined for misconduct, says a first-ever report on wrongdoing by federal lawyers. Complaints ranged from faked credentials to a false insurance claim: "We will inevitably learn from this."
Federal regulators yesterday fined a bitcoin dealer more than a half million for multiple violations of the Proceeds Of Crime And Terrorist Financing Act. It was among the largest penalties imposed since Parliament first regulated cryptocurrency dealers in 2019: "It is something difficult to understand."
Canada’s population shrank slightly since July for the first time since 1971, Statistics Canada said yesterday. Analysts said the decline was due to the flight of thousands of foreign students and migrant workers whose permits had expired: "Every province and territory except Alberta and Nunavut saw population decreases."
A York University researcher assigned to work on pro-Palestine reports at taxpayers’ expense called Canada a “racist settler colonial state,” records show. Cabinet advisor Amira Elghawaby met personally with the author and approved the assignment, but yesterday had no comment: "Thank you for the work you are doing."
