Taxpayers will “make a lot of money” on oil exports to Asia, Prime Minister Mark Carney said yesterday. Carney declared permits for a new $43.7 billion pipeline from Bruderheim, Alta. to Pacific terminals at Delta, B.C. will be fast-tracked within 12 months: "It is clear this is a project of national interest."
Cabinet proposes to launch a Canadian version of the European Union’s Solidarity Corps, a youth volunteer program. It follows earlier federal programs promoting youth volunteerism that cost taxpayers millions: 'In Norway, the European Solidarity Corps offers opportunities for young people. The government is looking into the possibility of developing its own civic corps in Canada.'
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday omitted all reference to Indian Residential School graves or genocide in observing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It followed the Senate's defeat of a motion endorsed by the Assembly of First Nations to criminalize “denialism.”
Cabinet aides hired a former CBC Radio announcer to coach Annette Ryan prior to her appearance as Budget Officer at Commons committee hearings, records show. MPs on the government operations committee wanted a candidate other than Ryan, a former finance department executive who knew Mark Carney at Oxford in the 1990s: 'That person who is a former journalist peppered me with a few questions.'
Cabinet must ensure quotas go “way, way, way down” in its updated Immigration Levels Plan due by month’s end, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill) said yesterday. The call was prompted by the Prime Minister’s remarks to New York journalists that “some controlled increase in the population” was a matter of timing.
Cabinet is quietly concealing more records than ever, Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard has written the Senate. The warning followed a single clause in an omnibus budget bill, C-31: "My office was not consulted."
Lumber and steel lobbyists yesterday cautioned senators there is no global substitute for the American market. Canadian automakers have similarly warned production will disappear if the tariff war continues: "Are you saying this is not going to compensate for what we are losing?"
NHLer Alexander Ovechkin would be prohibited from playing in Canada as a Putin sympathizer under a Commons petition introduced yesterday. The petition was sponsored without comment by Liberal MP Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre, Ont.), chair of the Canada-Ukraine Friendship Group: "Individuals sanctioned by Canada may be rendered inadmissible to Canada."
High rates of foreign hiring at select Tim Hortons restaurants are not typical of all franchisees nationwide, corporate managers said yesterday. The operator of an Eastern Ontario chain of six restaurants wrote in a bankruptcy court filing that migrant workers accounted for up to 83 percent of staff at some outlets: "Figures at these restaurants in question do not reflect the hiring reality."
The nation’s largest newspaper chain yesterday said it will end century-old print runs for six Northern Ontario dailies including the legendary North Bay Nugget, and close a regional weekly. The cutbacks at Postmedia Network Inc. follow millions in federal aid: "Decisions that impact our people are difficult."
Then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 1995 opposed a federal tax on financial trades and transactions as a non-starter "despite its possible merits," newly-declassified records show. Legislators as recently as 2025 have advocated for a so-called Tobin Tax on a promise of billions in revenue: "Despite its possible merits, its implementation would require unanimity."
It’s up to federal departments to decide what text messages they conceal from the public, says the Treasury Board. Electronic records may be destroyed “as appropriate” under a policy drafted 26 years ago: "Isn’t there a risk to destroying text messages? Yes."
The Senate human rights committee yesterday spent 1 hour and 27 minutes debating a single executive job cut, eliminating the position of Deputy Chief Human Rights Commissioner left vacant since 2022. The committee was told nobody could remember what the last appointee actually did: "There is nothing spelled out in particular for the Deputy Chief Commissioner to do."
New federal proposals to curb lawful strikes followed a direct appeal by shippers, according to Access To Information records detailed yesterday by journalist Peter Nowak. The labour department “acknowledged the group had been lobbying” to designate port and rail workers as essential employees forbidden from striking: "Strikes were costing Canada billions."
Hiring practices by select Tim Hortons franchisees saw foreign workers account for 60 to 80 percent of payroll at some restaurants. Figures were disclosed in bankruptcy court filings by one operator who blamed “changes to Temporary Foreign Worker programs” for insolvency: "Recruiting employees is challenging."
