OTTAWA – Nearly 90 per cent of federal public sector executives, as well as thousands of other federal bureaucrats, went home with $190 million in total bonuses in 2021-2022.
The bonuses represent an 11 per cent jump from the previous year ($171 million), which coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In China, the high-profile TV drama In The Name Of The People has become a smash hit. In that show, Chinese agents enter the U.S. posing as businessmen so they can repatriate a factory manager who had fled abroad with huge ill-gotten wealth.
But a new study by the European non-governmental agency Safeguard Defenders suggests that there might be some truth to the fiction. According to the NGO, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau has established more than 50 “overseas police service centres” in cities around the world – including three publicly documented ones in Toronto, home to Canada’s largest Chinese diaspora.
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OTTAWA, Ont. — Mélanie Joly’s political resume is longer than you might think — student activist leader, out-of-the-blue candidate who nearly became a big-city mayor and now Canada’s face on the world stage.
The foreign minister’s career — which includes a high-profile Cabinet demotion — has elevated her into a cluster of Liberals who could one day take over from party leader Justin Trudeau.
I double checked it’s not April 1st.
It was a bizarrely worded social media post, but it speaks to the mindset around official Ottawa when it comes to COVID-19.
“It’s time – if you’re eligible for your booster, get it,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted to Twitter on Thursday. “Let’s keep taking action to fight COVID-19, and let’s make sure our vaccinations are up-to-date. That way, we can continue to do the things we enjoy with the people we love.”
Gourmet meals plated on china, orders of beef wellington and carpaccio for 50, and $230 in flower arrangements secured from an Ottawa florist.
Department of National Defence receipts obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation and the National Post lay out the total cost of Governor-General Mary Simon’s pricey week-long trip to the Middle East earlier this year.
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MONTREAL—Everything old is new again: that’s one of the first take-aways from this week’s opening Trudeau-Poilievre question period engagement.
Barely five minutes into the exchanges, there was the prime minister talking about his commitment to “help the middle class and those working hard to join it.”
If that sounds familiar, it is because the line is probably the most tired talking point in the Liberal handbook. The party’s 2015 campaign mantra has been repeated so often since then that it has lost most of the magic it may have had in those more optimistic times.
Climate change. Inflation. Indigenous reconciliation. These are undoubtedly complex policy problems. Complex for policy wonks and outright mystical for everyone else, because addressing them causes an avalanche of unintended consequences across Canada’s entire economy.
OTTAWA, Ont. — As Canada’s Parliament resumes for its fall sitting, with a new opposition leader in place, one question lurks in the background: How long will it last?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government is being propped up by the left-leaning New Democratic Party in an agreement that could keep the Liberals in power until 2025 in exchange for progress on key NDP priorities, including a federal dental care plan.
OTTAWA – The federal government admitted certain items on the nearly $100,000 in-flight catering bill for the governor general’s eight-day trip to Dubai in 2020 were “problematic” and is working to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Records show an RCMP blacklist of bank account holders identified as part of the Freedom Convoy movement was sent by email to lobbyists, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The records show the RCMP distributed names, birth dates, phone numbers and more by unencrypted email and neither police nor Cabinet ensured the blacklist was accurate or confidential.
Canada is a Banana Republic.
Irving Shipbuilding wants to bring in more foreign workers to help construct the Canadian navy’s new fleet of warships.
Irving is involved in a recruiting campaign to bring in workers from the Philippines as it gets ready to construct the first of 15 Canadian Surface Combatants.
… But Irving employees told this newspaper that the firm is losing skilled Canadian shipbuilders because the firm is not paying enough and benefits are lacking.
Big LPC supporters I hear.
… Laith Marouf — the antisemitic, anti-racist, pro-decolonization activist who received federal funding to make a socially just broadcasting strategy for the country — isn’t exercising it. Instead, in a statement released Monday, he doubled down on his antisemitic talking points that caused his funding to be revoked. Perhaps he should have stayed silent, because he isn’t a very sympathetic character.
So, how would you like to pay up to $18,000 to retrofit your home to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet his 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets?
A study by the C.D. Howe Institute says that’s what it could cost for a typical, detached, single-family home.
Canada is falling behind its peers when giving their residents a break from rising cost of living, according to a new report by a government watchdog group.
Released Wednesday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation report accuses Canada of hiking taxes and making life unaffordable, while 51 other countries have taken steps to provide relief for its taxpayers.
The federal government is giving new funding to continue the development of an automated tool for finding and flagging terrorist content online.
… The tool Trudeau referred to is the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform.
Created by the United Nations’ Tech Against Terrorism initiative in 2020, the tool combs various corners of the internet for terrorist content and flags it for tech companies around the world to review — and, if they choose to do so, remove.
Fighting hate? Bullshit. Criminalizing dissent is the goal. And it’s a UN creation? That bastion of human rights? What could possibly go wrong?
