‘We’re a long way from that’: replacing Hockey Canada a difficult process, but experts say other levers can address the ‘deeply rooted culture of misogyny’
Replacing Hockey Canada with a new organization entirely would be a difficult—though not impossible—process, but there remain many other steps that can be taken to reform its “deeply rooted culture of misogyny,” say experts in sports policy and organizational culture change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) and Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge (Brome-Missisquoi, Que.) have […]
Politics This Morning: Committee to grill Hussen on anti-racism contract
Good Friday morning, Diversity and Housing Minister AHMED HUSSEN will appear before the House Heritage Committee today for what is generously being described as a “briefing to discuss” the government’s contract with the Community Media Advocacy Centre. Hussen cancelled the government’s $133,000 contract that would have paid the centre to deliver anti-racism programming after it […]
New report alleges federal government hiding true extent of Trans Mountain’s debt load
A new report, released by West Coast Environmental Law, says the government is misleading Canadians about the extent of the debt that the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation is accumulating as construction continues on its controversial pipeline expansion project, and calculates that the government will need to write off at least $17-billion in debt that […]
Politics This Morning: Supply and command
Good Thursday morning, The government’s “Supply Chain Task Force” is set to release its final report today on the trade and manufacturing jam-ups that have muddled world economics and Canadian politics since the beginning of the pandemic. The Task Force is made up of business executives and consultants with backgrounds in the movement of products […]
Trudeau-Poilievre talking point fact check: do Canadians pay more for EI today than they did in 2015?
Some Canadians are paying slightly higher employment insurance premiums in nominal dollars than they were in 2015, while many others are seeing a reduction in the amount they pay out, because the amount of income subject to EI premiums has risen while the rate charged on that income has dropped. The rise in maximum insurable […]
Bank of Canada chief Macklem to deliver keynote in Halifax on Oct. 6
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5 House Sitting—The House is sitting until Oct. 7. It will break for one week, Oct. 10-14, and will sit for three straight weeks, Oct. 17-Nov. 4. It will take a one-week break, Nov. 7-11. It will return on Nov. 14 and will sit for five straight weeks, Nov. 14-Dec. 16. And that’s […]
Secret cabinet orders continue to rise with 26 so far this year
The Liberal government’s instinct to keep secret a small, but increasing, number of cabinet orders continues as 26 orders-in-council have been withheld from public listing this year so far, leading to calls from the NDP’s ethics critic for a legislative fix. To date this year, 26 adopted cabinet orders have not been made public, which […]
‘We’ve been waiting while people are dying’: NDP MP Johns says Canadians can’t afford delayed Liberal action on suicide prevention
As the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, the pressures of rising inflation continue to negatively impact mental health, Canadians will still have to wait another year before the federal government presents its action plan on suicide prevention. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and Technology on Sept. 29, […]
Calls to list IRGC as terrorist entity re-emerge as Tories take four-year push to Foreign Affairs Committee
Amid increasing protests in Iran after the death of a women in custody, Conservative MPs are renewing their calls to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity, including at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Protests erupted across Iran following the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She was detained […]
PSAC calls for legislative change to address ‘second-class’ treatment of Precinct workers
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, the country’s largest public service union, has called out the federal government for what is says is the treatment of hundreds of Parliamentary Precinct workers as “second-class,” and is asking for reforms to the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act (PESRA), as well as “compensation for suffering under the […]
