‘Significant gaps’ in government’s monitoring and response to cyberattacks, AG finds
While solid cyber security systems were developed to protect government networks and systems, Auditor General Karen Hogan found not all departments, agencies, and Crown corporations use the security systems available to them.
Two-thirds of calls to CRA centres go unanswered as number of call agents drops: AG report
Callers who did reach agents may not have been given accurate information, as a report from Auditor General Karen Hogan found agents were only accurate 17 per cent of the time when asked questions about individual taxes.
Departments grapple with tracking employee attendance after a year of return-to-office rules
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada has only recently begun tracking staff attendance. However, the departments that have been monitoring employee attendance say there is no issue with compliance.
Budget cuts won’t impact RCMP hiring push, says public safety minister
At an Oct. 20 committee meeting, Conservative Senator Claude Carignan asked if the cuts would impact frontline Mounties.
Feds need clearer focus on youth as unemployment hits 15-year high, critics say
Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘has silenced the voice of youth at the cabinet table by failing to appoint a minister,’ says NDP critic Leah Gazan, noting Secretary of State for Children and Youth Anna Gainey should be pushing for more.
Conservative Party faces conflict-of-interest allegation over hiring of Alberta national councillor Feldbusch’s husband as regional organizer
The Conservative Party is a ‘close-knit’ group and it’s not ‘uncommon’ for family members, including those of national councillors, to work for the party in different positions, says CPC’s director of communications Sarah Fischer.
AI study and Senate bills on alcohol warnings and sickle cell disease framework on Senate Social Affairs Committee’s agenda
Policy priorities for some Senate committee members also include digital health technologies, the impacts of climate disasters, and medical assistance in dying.
Canada needs to move much closer to Europe and Mexico, our future depends on it
It’s also time we dropped our anti-China bias. With a financially stressed America retreating into self-centred protectionism, it is time for Canada to assert its independence in a world of new allies and new opportunities.
If Poilievre wants to become prime minister, he should tone down the inflammatory rhetoric
The Conservative Party is running neck and neck with the governing Liberals, but Pierre Poilievre is far behind Mark Carney in leadership numbers. The inflammatory language could further undermine his popularity numbers.
AG Hogan to release six audit reports on Tuesday, Oct. 21
House Schedule—The House of Commons will sit Oct. 20-24; Oct. 27-31; Nov. 3-7; Nov. 17-21; Nov. 24-28; Dec. 1-5; and Dec. 8-12. In total, the House will have sat only 73 days this year. Last year, it sat 122 days, and in 2023, it sat 121 days. In 2022, it sat 129 days, and in […]
