Ontario Premier Doug Ford yesterday suggested the Prime Minister lacked backbone in granting Chinese automakers unprecedented access to Canada’s battery electric car market. “At least I know where I stand now,” said the Premier, who last year praised Mark Carney as a shrewd executive: "We get nothing."
Federal managers should complete an 86-hour course at taxpayers’ expense for certification on “Canada’s colonial history,” says a Treasury Board memo. Workshops and seminars were a “journey that provides historical reflection,” it said.
The Public Health Agency confirms effective April 1 it will directly manage a national program that has paid out more than $18 million to Canadians harmed by Covid shots. Consultants hired to run the Vaccine Injury Support Program were blamed for causing “frustration and hardship.”
The diplomat whose hurried closure of our Embassy in Kabul left 1,290 Canadians trapped in Afghanistan has been recalled from his final overseas assignment. “Goodbyes are sad,” Reid Sirrs wrote in a farewell to colleagues: "Hello to a new adventure."
Thousands of acres of dead pine left standing in Jasper National Park were a “key contributing factor” to a disastrous 2024 blaze that burned a third of the town, confirms a Canadian Forest Service report. Cabinet had blamed climate change: "Jasper saw a severe Mountain Pine Beetle attack that peaked around seven years before the fire."
Any Freedom Convoy appeal to the Supreme Court will be heard by a Chief Justice who publicly called protestors anarchists and hostage takers. Chief Justice Richard Wagner's remarks were "highly inappropriate," said one legal group: 'Conflicts of interest may arise from the judge having expressed views evidencing bias.'
Thousands of hunters, sports shooters and collectors face a 70-day deadline to surrender “assault style” firearms under a program federal researchers caution may be a costly failure. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangree today launched the national gun buyback, a $742 million campaign already twice over budget: "The program faces a risk of non-compliance."
Chinese automakers have gained access to about half the battery electric car market in Canada, federal data show. Concessions by Prime Minister Mark Carney followed Department of Finance complaints of predatory practices by Chinese industry: 'The government is allowing vehicles from a country that won’t allow our vehicles to go there, so they could displace vehicles that are built here.'
The CBC Ombudsman has faulted the network’s Parliament Hill bureau for identifying MPs as Jews in news copy. A 2023 story by reporter John Tasker breached the CBC Journalistic Standards And Practices Guide, the Ombudsman said.
Housing starts despite modest gains last year remain below half the rate needed to restore affordability, CMHC figures show. The latest data follow Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to “build bigger and faster.”
“Canada: The Last Best West!” was his slogan. Clifford Sifton, an interior minister, crafted immigration policies with far-reaching effects that are still with us. The Ottawa house he lived in for 25 years is not.
Copyright law has been around for 300 years and follows the Ten Commandments, yet many including government agencies barely comprehend intellectual property rights. There are no copyright police or courts, and even public agencies steal others’ work. It is no exaggeration that copyright owners enjoy less protection from theft than the night manager eyeing shoplifters at a Quickie Mart.
“Studying copyright, especially if you’re not a lawyer, is akin to stepping into a madhouse where things barely adhere to any internal logic,” writes Professor Blayne Haggart in Copyfight.
Liberal appointee Senator Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.) yesterday said the Prime Minister has to “watch his back” in promoting friendship with the Chinese Communist Party. The Senator said unnamed "China haters" sought to sabotage close relations with Beijing: "Fifty-first state thinking is deeply embedded in Canada as is Sinophobia."
Federal managers have issued new guidelines for concealing records effective January 26 including permanent deletion of chat posts within 15 days. The policy follows Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election pledge that Access To Information was “quite important.”
Canadians most likely to trust TV news are over 65, says in-house CRTC research. Canadians under 34 were least likely to rate mainstream media as factual and unbiased: "Although traditional television still exists, its long term future is uncertain."
