News/Politics (Page 110)

Politics The Supreme Court has ruled that airlines can be required to compensate passengers for certain international flight disruptions and Canada’s passenger protection regulations do not violate international law. Unanimous ruling dismisses appeal from airlines that said passenger protections violate international law Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Oct 04,Continue Reading

Australia is joining the United States and the United Kingdom in developing top-secret cloud networks to exchange highly classified defence, national security and intelligence data with each other — a concept Canada has just begun to think about. Experts say that, unless the gap is closed quickly, Canada’s lack of such digital infrastructureContinue Reading

The Canada Border Services Agency acted “deceitfully” when it fired a woman without a proper investigation — while shielding others from liability — after the border agency failed to collect roughly $26 million in duties, says the federal public service labour board. “In all, the employer’s egregious conduct in this matter consistedContinue Reading

Politics A last-minute decision to pause “bare trust” reporting requirements left officials at Canada’s tax agency scrambling to inform the public about the changes, internal emails suggest. Emails also suggest the tax agency was unprepared for questions about reimbursement of preparation fees Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: OctContinue Reading

Politics The federal government has released a proposed list of more than 30 chemicals and groups of substances Canadians encounter daily that it wants to prioritize for risk assessments. Ottawa proposes to study the health impacts of chemicals found in cosmetics, flame retardants David Thurton · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Politics After a months-long review of CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is expected to announce changes meant to modernize the public broadcaster sometime over the next four weeks. Public broadcaster’s mandate hasn’t been updated since the advent of the internet John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Oct 03,Continue Reading

Politics The government’s pharmacare legislation has passed a key step on the way to becoming law and is set to pass through the Senate next week. A Senate committee has finished its clause-by-clause analysis of C-64 Kate McKenna · CBC News · Posted: Oct 03, 2024 4:21 PM EDT |Continue Reading

Politics An internal Global Affairs Canada email that suggested Canada’s consul general in New York was directly involved in the purchase of a $9 million luxury apartment in the city was mistaken, a committee of MPs was told Thursday. Conservative, Bloc and NDP MPs on committee suggest official’s story isContinue Reading

Politics Government business has been put on indefinite pause in the House of Commons and the Conservatives say it will stay that way until the Liberals hand over documents related to misspent government dollars. Documents in question relate to the foundation formerly responsible for funding green tech projects Laura OsmanContinue Reading