OTTAWA — More than 27,000 federal public servants were paid at least $150,000 in the last fiscal year, a document tabled in Parliament shows.
It says more than 20,000 employees received compensation — salaries, bonuses, benefits and overtime pay — of between $150,000 and $199,999 in 2024-25.
The document, prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, shows that nearly 5,000 employees earned between $200,000 and $249,999 and almost 1,400 employees made between $250,000 and $299,999.
Russian spies who hacked Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign have been linked to the Salisbury poisonings for the first time.
Boris Antonov, Nikolai Kozachek and Pavel Yershov were previously indicted by the United States for releasing tens of thousands of emails from Mrs Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
They were among 11 Russian military intelligence officers sanctioned by Britain on Thursday in the wake of a public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in 2018.
The Canadian company building armoured vehicles for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing so in the United States – which likely places the products out of the reach of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister.
Human-rights advocates are expressing concern over the prospect of the company equipping an American agency known for its aggressive enforcement tactics under the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign. NDP MP Jenny Kwan had said that Canada should block the sale of these vehicles.
Google AI – What relationship does “Roshel” have with Canada and Ukraine?
Even if we double home building, buying a house is expected to become less affordable for nearly half the country
The federal government wants to build 480,000 homes a year over the next decade to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. That’s double our normal rate and a pace not seen since the Second World War.
They’ve put some money and resources behind the effort: Along with the new federal agency Build Canada Homes, Budget 2025 included other measures to ramp up activity, such as a fund only accessible to provinces that lower construction-related taxes.
President Vladimir Putin has warned again that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it, rejecting any compromise over how to end the war in Ukraine.
“Either we liberate these territories by force, or Ukrainian troops will leave these territories,” he told India Today. Moscow controls around 85% of Donbas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out ceding territory.
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A man from Sierra Leone has been granted asylum after he claimed a Nigerian woman in the UK forced him to have sex with her and her friends.
The African asylum seeker told a tribunal that he was taken in by a homeowner after arriving in the UK and forced against his will to satisfy her sexually as well as a group of her friends.
EXCLUSIVE: Police and mall security foil a robbery attempt at Erin Mills Town Centre yesterday, taking 4 suspects into custody. A stolen Honda SUV was also recovered. #mississauga
This marks the seventh reported robbery (attempt) at EMTC since the start of the year.
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Jake Tapper refers to alleged pipe bomber as a “white man”
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 5, 2025
Double shot …
The CBC, folks
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Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after public broadcasters decided to let Israel compete.
The song contest has now been thrown into chaos, with other countries expected to follow suit.
Iceland had also threatened to pull out of the competition before a crunch meeting in Geneva on Thursday, while there were reports Belgium and Finland were mulling similar moves. Competing broadcasters have until mid-December to confirm their participation.
What will Canada do if it is granted a slot?
Mark Carney heads to Washington — but not the White House — on Friday, yet he should use this brief encounter with Donald Trump to put trade on the table.
Carney will be attending the World Cup draw that determines which countries play in which cities in next year’s tournament.
Left-wing extremists are behind nearly all recent attacks on infrastructure and businesses in Bavaria, newly released state data show. Figures provided to lawmakers link far-left actors to 243 of 263 infrastructure attacks and 447 of 465 offences against the economy between 2019 and 2024.
Annual figures show a sharp increase in attacks: 34 cases in 2019 surged to 190 incidents in 2023, with 125 directly linked to left-wing extremism. Arson and explosives offenses also surged, with 27 incidents in 2023, including 16 targeting infrastructure. Property damage remains the most common offense, with 242 left-wing-motivated cases targeting infrastructure and commercial sectors alike.
The federal government is escalating its fight with automotive giant Stellantis over the company’s decision to move some production to the U.S., despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian taxpayer incentives in recent years.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Thursday that the government will serve Stellantis with a notice of default under the funding contracts related to projects in both Windsor and Brampton, Ont.
I don’t think Stellantis much cares what Ms. Joly thinks.
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa: It’s a great day for us… because it’s a day where we see CAFE regulations reconcile with real customers’ demands. That’s why, at Stellantis, we decided to invest $13B in the next 4 years… because we believe in what you, @SecDuffy, and all your… https://t.co/OXQ3rHTwzr pic.twitter.com/MrZUnbyWTg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 3, 2025
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