The Commons and Senate yesterday suspended all proceedings in mourning for eight dead including schoolchildren as young as 12 and 13 shot at a Tumbler Ridge, B.C. secondary school. The town’s Member of Parliament said the killing of children was beyond words: "I got a terrible phone call." READ MORE
The Department of Canadian Heritage compiled a list of “notable Muslim Canadians” comprised mainly of Liberal and New Democrat MPs including Maryam Monsef, records show. The former Minister of Gender Equality lost re-election in 2021 after describing Taliban terrorists as “our brothers.” READ MORE
Immigration Minister Lena Diab yesterday raised passport fees by as much as $4 with more hikes on the way and a regulatory change that will result in automatic inflationary increases every subsequent year. There was no public notice: "Fees for travel documents will be adjusted each year to align with inflation." READ MORE
Public Works Minister Joel Lightbound yesterday promised cabinet will never abandon century-old preferential mail rates for libraries or the blind. It followed an outcry over a clause in an omnibus budget bill to deregulate stamp prices: "We understand this has been the source of anxiety." READ MORE
Rural Canada has become victim to security gaps exploited by drug traffickers including lax airport screening, Senator Dawn Anderson (NWT) said yesterday. “I think this is a weak link in the chain,” she said: "I have had this discussion with the RCMP." READ MORE
Security at a secret Public Health Agency warehouse was so inadequate $20 million worth of specialty drugs were ruined after staff failed to notice a freezer door was left open, the Commons health committee learned yesterday. The lack of security prompted enquiries by a “foreign national,” MPs were told: "We are aware through a vendor we work closely with that there was interest from a foreign national in obtaining access to our warehouse locations." READ MORE
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service yesterday refused to say how many federal ridings were targeted by foreign agents in the 2025 general election. “I am not able to tell you the numbers,” Vanessa Lloyd, a CSIS election monitor, told the House affairs committee: "During the election period the Task Force observed instances of foreign interference." READ MORE
A government agent said, “We’re taking you to Ottawa for a little experiment, wouldn’t you like that? Isn’t that great?” My parents were never asked if they thought all of this was a good idea. I did not know then how much I would grow to miss my family, and how lonely I would be. Here we had running water and store-bought clothes, bigger schools and libraries, supermarkets and suburbs. Why did the government do it? I think they honestly believed their values as a middle-class, southern, industrial society were best for Inuit. It was as simple as that.
