A federal judge has faulted Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne for disobeying a Court order in a tax case. The Minister’s office and Canada Revenue Agency failed to comply with a 2025 order to disclose emails and memos regarding treatment of a Jewish charity: "Orders of the Court must be obeyed." READ MORE
Vancouver activist Avi Lewis yesterday said Canadians were at war with a corrupt elite he blamed for inflation. Lewis won the federal New Democrat leadership on the first ballot with his pledge to “tax the rich.” READ MORE
A historic site dedicated to 19th century Prairie homesteaders will be reimagined as a monument to “inequities on the Prairies” including mistreatment of Indigenous people, says a Parks Canada report. Celebration of European settlement at Saskatchewan’s Motherwell National Historic Site lacks diversity, said the plan tabled in Parliament: "Motherwell’s second wife is noted for her connection to the difficult history of the Residential School system." READ MORE
More than 57,000 Canadians living abroad voted in the 2025 federal election, a record, according to an Elections Canada memo. More are expected in the next election with the passage of a cabinet bill granting citizenship to the grandchildren of Canadian citizens abroad: 'There is increasing demand by international electors.' READ MORE
Cabinet last year pocketed a 25 percent profit on mandatory security fees charged airline passengers, records show. Advocates have sought relief from fees introduced in 2002 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks: "How much is collected from passengers?" READ MORE
John A. Macdonald was a vagabondish fellow who never stayed in one place for long and occasionally had trouble paying the mortgage. Our founding prime minister had at least five homes in Ottawa. Few survive. One today is the High Commission of Brunei. Another was demolished to make way for an economical grey, mid-century apartment tower across the street from a vacant convenience store. READ MORE
Covid is a tale of failure by federal executives and political aides. They did not mean to cause death and suffering; these people are not monsters. They were merely reckless and incompetent in the manner of Titanic officers who kept a dance band and well-stocked liquor cabinet but no binoculars in the crow’s nest. The Public Health Agency of Canada was fully funded at $675 million a year and found money for climate change conferences but literally could not run a mask warehouse. It was their job to keep you safe. They failed. Displacement City is a story of failure. The City of Toronto budgeted $663 million a year for homeless and housing programs yet authors count 10,000 homeless people. The City has 75 years of experience in public housing and a six-figure CEO at the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, yet was reduced to arguing whether to install communal toilets at tent cities in municipal parks. READ MORE
I don’t know why I wanted to enter politics. I know he respected politicians a lot. Politics for me was a calling I took extremely seriously. I threw myself into it with everything I had. I failed my family. In the process I was not the father I should have been. That’s something I can’t take back. I’m sure Hitler worked very, very hard. I’m sure he woke up every morning and went to every event and I’m sure that he was in every place his party told him to be, but at the end of the day I do not think that our values should stem from that.
