OTTAWA – Veteran journalist Dean Beeby says reporters are abandoning the federal Access to Information Act as a research tool because turnaround times are terrible and getting worse.
The access law allows journalists and others who pay a $5 fee to request documents — from internal emails and expense claims to briefing memos and studies — but it has long been criticized as antiquated and poorly administered.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents experienced an increase of nearly 484 percent in the number of migrants apprehended in the first two months of the new fiscal year. In October and November this year, agents apprehended 473 migrants compared to only 81 apprehensions during the same period last year.
Can’t say that I blame them for wanting to get out of war torn Canada.
Canadians are growing more concerned about the state of the economy and the impacts on their pocketbooks, a new poll suggests, with a majority now saying they are worried they won’t have enough money to feed their families.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 53 per cent of those surveyed were fearful about having enough food on the table, up nine points from just a month ago.
She gets to keep that “tarnished” badge after all.
Cripes, Mandel makes it sound like she bought sensitive communications equipment from the ChiComs!
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… Citing worldwide critical minerals reserves data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the authors point out that Canada is a bit player in lithium, cobalt, copper, graphite and nickel, all of which are used in low-carbon energy, such as electric vehicle batteries. Reserves are minerals in the ground whose economic viability has been proven.
The stark reality of Canada’s weak standing in critical minerals goes against the rhetoric often espoused by federal and provincial politicians, who have claimed that Canada is a critical minerals powerhouse.
Tulipmania is an apt comparison to our own Green-Scam mania, but it especially applies to the Big Lie about “electric vehicles.”
The only good green jobs being created belong to those charged with handing out tax payer dollars to unsustainable “green” industries.
How many ICE cars and trucks are on the road in Canada currently, privately owned and commercial?
Do you think we have or will have the energy infrastructure required to replace all of those vehicles with EV’s?
It’s not even close and my bet is we never will.
Someone will have to do without a private vehicle.
In fact a lot of someone’s will have to do without.
Those someone’s will be you and I.
And that’s considered a feature not a bug.
Bank of Canada raises key interest rate to 4.25 per cent, its highest since 2008
The Bank of Canada has raised its overnight rate by 50 basis points to 4.25 per cent, marking its seventh rate hike in nine months. The last time the bank’s policy rate was this high was in January 2008.
The inflation rate remained high at 6.9 per cent in October, well above the bank’s 2 per cent target. Higher gas prices put upward pressure on the cost of most goods and services, according to the Consumer Price Index released by Statistics Canada last month.
OTTAWA – The Canadian Armed Forces is facing calls to return Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin to duty after the senior officer, who previously oversaw the Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, was acquitted of sexual assault.
The military says it is considering the implications of the ruling, which was handed down by a Quebec civilian judge on Monday following a high-profile trial.
Fortin’s lawyer, Natalia Rodriguez, says her client is ready, willing and able to return to service after being essentially put on paid leave for more than a year.
Why shouldn’t he be reinstated? Sounds like the CAF has something against heterosexuals.
Do you remember way back when central bankers were telling us that inflation was “transitory?”
Both the Bank of Canada’s Tiff Macklem and Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve used all their official authority and confidence to assure us nearer the start of the pandemic that prices, while rising faster than the two had hoped, would soon stop rising and inflation would go away all on its own. Rate hikes were not needed.
Canada’s auditor general says that while the federal government effectively delivered emergency COVID-19 benefits during the pandemic, deciding to not front-end verification resulted in $4.6 billion in overpayments to ineligible individuals.
After sending out an estimated $211 billion in COVID-19 aid, a performance audit tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday found that the Canada Revenue Agency and Employment and Social Development Canada are “falling short” when it comes to following through on belatedly verifying recipients’ eligibility.
Canada leads calls to protect 30% of Earth as Cop15 opens in Montreal
Conserving 30% of Earth for nature would be equivalent to the 1.5C climate target, Canada’s environment minister has said, as senior UN figures warn action on nature loss at Cop15 this month is key to helping solve the biodiversity and climate crises.
Steven Guilbeault, a former environmental activist who is now Canada’s climate minister, said that agreeing to conserve nearly a third of the planet by the end of the decade is a key aim for his country at the biodiversity summit, which is being held in Montreal over the next two weeks.
OTTAWA — Tens of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines are likely about to expire and go to waste because of a failure to manage an oversupply of doses, at an estimated cost of about $1 billion, Canada’s auditor general reported Tuesday.
OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency has noted an “alarming escalation” of espionage and foreign interference since the beginning of the pandemic, with countries like China threatening or intimidating people in Canada into namely supporting a specific electoral candidate.
“These activities are real, they’re persistent, they’re increasing, and it’s not hypothetical, we see it everyday in our work. And these activities will be targeting all level of governments, whether it’s federal, municipal, provincial,” veteran CSIS intelligence analyst Noura Hayek told attendees of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws conference Monday.
Can’t they identify the perps?
Can’t they deport them?
Why do CSIS’ hands seem to be tied?
Or is Canada’s China class preventing that action be taken?
Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus faces internal Police Act charges for conducting “unauthorized” investigations into the sudden deaths of nine infants – where she sought to know the vaccine status of the mothers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is “extremely worried” about the realities facing children and families across Canada as high levels of respiratory illness among kids continue to swamp pediatric hospitals across the country.
The situation is so dire in parts of Ontario that the Red Cross is coming to the aid of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), which had to open a second intensive care unit last month to treat what it called an unprecedented number of critically ill babies and children.
A wooden totem pole taken from an indigenous Canadian community nearly a century ago is to be returned.
The decision to return the House of Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole was announced by directors at the National Museum of Scotland who said the ‘difficult legacies’ associated with its display had forced them to reconsider its future.
Plans are under way to send back the hand-carved totem pole to the Nisga’a in British Columbia after a delegation requested its repatriation in August.
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