NDP slams Liberals for stalling on measures to tame hot housing markets
The NDP is calling on the Trudeau government to take decisive action to help residents struggling in overheated housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver, though the Liberals are cautioning against rolling out any policy remedies that could impact the broader national housing picture before extensive study. NDP MP Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, B.C.) accused the […]
Annual Financial Reports of Federal Political Parties
Liberal Party: Category 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total Contributions $10,119,908.62 $8,166,657.76 $11,292,845.85 $15,063,142.28 $21,276,897.57 Total Contributors 49,650 44,466 71,655 77,064 93,426 Total Transfers $235,572.91 $760,406.58 $282,457.59 $2,187,478.58 $1,312,625.13 Total Loans $15-million 0 0 0 $40-million Overall Total Contributions, Loans and Transfers $25,355,481.53 $8,947,064.34 $11,575,303.44 $17,250,620.86 $62,589,522.70 Total General Election Expenses $19,507,745.82 – – – […]
Liberals raised $21.3-million last year, but Conservatives broke record high, raked in $29-million
The Liberals raised $21.3-million last year, but the Conservatives raked in a record-breaking $29-million, roughly $7.8-million more than the Grits did, marking an overall federal party high, according to the recently published parties’ annual financial reports filed with Elections Canada. The Liberals raised $21,276,897 in 2015, up from the roughly $15-million in 2014, while the Conservatives raised a […]
Canada’s return to NATO’s front line has air of familiarity to it
And so Canadian soldiers are heading back to Europe. Times change and the world, despite a steady drumbeat of appalling headlines, is safer for us than for our parents. So the deployment of 450 Canadian Armed Forces troops to Latvia won’t be nearly as formidable as the deployment to West Germany—often more than 10 times […]
Senate’s Internal Economy Committee letter to Duffy demanding $16,955 back causing fissures in Senate, ‘bad politics and bad PR’
The Senate’s letter to Independent Senator Mike Duffy demanding $16,955 back for allegedly ineligible expenses is causing fissures amongst Senators with one saying that Senators in the “highest position of authority” in the Internal Economy Committee have not accepted Ont. Judge Charles Vaillancourt’s judgment exonerating the Prince Edward Island Senator of all 31 charges and another describe […]
House committees wanted $1.5-million budget boost to travel more, BOIE approves $800,000
House committee chairs asked for a 65 per cent increase earlier this month to their budget to help them travel to meet Canadians on their home turf—a move one Conservative chair said is a waste of taxpayers’ money. On June 14, the House Liaison Committee, which is made up of all committee chairs and reviews […]
Brexit: Long-brewing revolt against globalization feeds economic, political chaos
OTTAWA—It was 2001 in Quebec City and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was getting together with United States President George W. Bush and other leaders to push forward with the U.S.’s hemispheric trade-liberalization plan. That was the heyday of government efforts to reshape the world in keeping with the interests of U.S. corporations, and Bush wanted […]
Territorial Development
Where are seniors on the Trudeau agenda?
It is not immediately obvious. We no longer have a minister for seniors, but we never had a department for seniors issues anyway. Crafting a smaller cabinet inevitably meant the loss of some titles. Former prime minister Stephen Harper tied historically with former prime minister Brian Mulroney for the largest cabinet ever. As it shrunk, […]
Canadians value a well-developed pain management program
During the years I worked as a professional in the health-care field one thing was made abundantly clear to me; Canadians value a well-developed pain management program. In certain cases this means developing, and funding, a palliative care plan. In many situations, the financial and administrative responsibility for this plan falls on family caregivers Just […]
