The $458,000-a year CEO of the Crown bank Farm Credit Canada billed four times the expenses of her predecessor including Filet Mignon steak dinners, round-the-world business class flights and a $543 Uber ride, records show. Justine Hendricks had no comment but earlier told employees to "tighten the belt." READ MORE
Attorney General Sean Fraser’s department says it uncovered an executive implicated in malfeasance but would neither name the person nor explain why police were not called. The latest case is in addition to 37 employees disciplined last year for wrongdoing: "The executive retired." READ MORE
Foreign agents operating in Canada will not be compelled to disclose how much they’re paid under regulations finalized yesterday. Disclosing cash transactions was too “sensitive,” said Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, though such disclosure is mandatory in the United States: 'We do not intend to publish specific dollar amounts.' READ MORE
TV reporters must attempt to verify all news, even breathless eyewitness accounts of breaking stories, a national broadcast ombudsman has ruled. The Canada Broadcast Standards Council faulted CTV National for televising a Canadian tourist’s alarming account of street violence in Mexico: "A clearly inaccurate statement, even if made by someone other than the reporter, can constitute a breach." READ MORE
A 10 percent tariff on Lebanese chickpeas, Filipino beans and other imported canned goods will have a “downstream effect” at supermarket checkouts, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said yesterday in a regulatory notice. Cabinet had no choice but to protect Canadian growers and canners, he said: 'It is likely to have a downstream effect on the price of certain canned vegetables for consumers.' READ MORE
Blacklock's pauses for the 159th anniversary of Confederation to wish all friends and subscribers a happy Canada Day. We're back tomorrow -- The Editor READ MORE
Attorney General Sean Fraser yesterday said he “will occasionally” check if judicial appointees made political donations, but denied any partisan intent. “I will on occasion have a candidate’s political activities flagged before a final appointment is made,” he said. READ MORE
I felt we had freedom of speech on the web, that I could basically post whatever I wanted in whatever language I chose, and I wanted my day in court to fight them. What was my point? As a free society, we have a right to put on the internet our content in whatever language we want without government control. We don’t need Big Brother watching over you on the internet. They had to put in their two cents, they had to regulate. How could there be a medium out there over which they had absolutely no control? I mean, isn’t that part of government’s philosophy?
