Auditors are faulting Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s department for sloppy accounting by diplomats abroad including disappearing paperwork on spending. The latest report follows a 2020 disclosure that one Embassy misappropriated $145,000 for a party pavilion and lied to cover the expense: "It was nearly impossible to determine." READ MORE
Parliament must convene hearings on property rights after a British Columbia judge granted Aboriginal title to 1,846 acres near Richmond, B.C. including private lots purchased by ratepayers, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. “This is a federal issue,” he told reporters: "You need property rights protection to have a thriving, property-owning democracy." READ MORE
Canada Border Services Agency executives hurriedly convened strategy sessions after an Opposition MP publicly disclosed whistleblower complaints of workplace harassment, Access To Information records show. Conservative MP Rhonda Kirkland (Oshawa, Ont.) persuaded the Commons public safety committee to investigate the Agency’s “toxic workplace culture.” READ MORE
Federal executives in 2025 discussed a national campaign to electrify school buses, according to an Access To Information memo. Rebates for the purchase of new vehicles to replace Canada’s current fleet of 65,000 school buses would cost a billion: "We are generally aligned with the direction." READ MORE
There is insufficient evidence to determine if a costly grocery subsidy for Northerners is lowering the price of food, says a federal report. The Nutrition North program cost $194.3 million last year: "Is the subsidy being fully passed on to consumers?" READ MORE
Cabinet for a third time in five years is reviewing federal regulation of legal internet content, the Department of Industry said yesterday. “Details will be made public at the appropriate time,” it said. READ MORE
Floor-crossing by a fifth opposition MP to the Liberal caucus yesterday marked the largest mass defection to a federal governing party in the Commons in 109 years. MP Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia-Lambton, Ont.), former Conservative Party leadership candidate, said she hoped to gain more federal funding for her riding as a Liberal: "I thought, should I quit?" READ MORE
He didn’t want to get into politics. He told me, “Patty, you’re lucky if you get one honest man in politics; you start out with a few that are crooked, and the rest are bought off.” He called it one of the dirtiest businesses to ever be in. Everything he did, he gave full credit to Jesus. He said to me, “Patty, whatever job you take or person you fall in love with, if you take Jesus with you, you’ll succeed.” I never forgot that. I’m probably a little bit prejudiced, but I think he bordered on genius. He’s the only man I ever met who knew the Bible by heart in three languages: Hebrew, Greek and English. He had a photographic memory.
