Labour Board complaints, ‘bad faith’ bargaining and strike votes: feds, public service unions squaring off early in 2023
The Union of Taxation Employees began strike votes for 35,000 CRA employees in Moncton, N.B., on Feb. 7.
Politics This Morning: Ng and Alvaro face the cameras
Plus, a special offer for Hill Times readers.
Feds ‘walk the tightrope’ with health-care offer, but ‘culture change’ needed to reform system, says health expert
A federal source told The Hill Times that ‘sending a bunch of money’ isn’t working anymore, and the offer’s size is based on what the government thinks the provinces need.
Conservative MPs press intelligence officials on allegations of foreign interference in past federal elections
Liberal MPs say repeating unproven allegations of interference ‘does China’s bidding’ by undermining public confidence in Canadian institutions.
Politics This Morning: Warding off the salmon-ocolypse
Plus, Nate Erskine-Smith gets some good news.
‘The tail wagging the dog’: Senate Rules Committee stuck on question of privileges for non-partisan Senate groups
Conservative Senators are looking to maintain special status and privileges granted to the opposition and not currently available to other recognized groups that have formed in recent years.
‘None of it is good’: bankruptcy of major Ontario agricultural employer will leave migrant workers stranded if feds don’t step in, says advocate
Lakeside Produce, a large commercial greenhouse in southwestern Ontario that employs temporary foreign workers and seasonal agricultural workers, filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 17.
Cabinet support for Uyghur resettlement motion a ‘solemn promise’ to implement plan, says sponsor
The Liberal cabinet’s Feb. 1 support of M-62 is the first time it has voted in recognition of the plight of the Uyghurs.
DND to remain in downtown headquarters for at least another dozen years amid $78-million renovation
DND workers will remain at the Pearkes Building until ‘at least’ 2035, after which time the government says they’ll all have to go elsewhere.
Canada can’t afford to ‘miss the boat’ on blockchain industry, says Bloc MP Lemire
Comparing the emerging blockchain industry to the advent of the internet in the 1990s, MPs on the House Industry and Technology Committee say the government should avoid partisan attacks on crypto and instead prepare Canada for the economy of the future.
