Ontario hospital workers are set to get additional wage increases over two years, the latest in a series of similar arbitration decisions after the province’s wage-restraint law was found unconstitutional. An arbitrator has awarded 3.75 percent and 2.5 percent for last year and this year to hospital workers such as dietary aides, personal support workers…
Ontario Hospital Workers Awarded More Pay After Bill 124 Found Unconstitutional
Statistics Canada Says Household Debt-to-Income Ratio up in Q1
Statistics Canada says the amount Canadians owe relative to their income rose in the first quarter of the year as disposable income fell even as debt levels continued to rise. The agency says that on a seasonally adjusted basis, household credit market debt as a proportion of household disposable income rose to 184.5 percent in…
Quebec Judge Rejects Request From Muslim Group to Suspend Ban on School Prayer Rooms
A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied a request to suspend the province’s ban on prayer room spaces in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims have argued that the ban was causing irreparable harm to Muslim students. Justice Lukasz Granosik disagreed, ruling today that the groups did…
Replacing Aging Canadian Submarine Fleet Appears Unlikely to Happen Soon
How Canada might go about replacing its aging submarine fleet is an ongoing exercise, but the nuclear-powered option looks to be off-the-table. This much is not new; however, Canada was also just reminded of its exclusion from the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact between its close allies the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. It may be…
Ottawa’s Volkswagen EV Battery Plant Deal Will Cost Over $16 Billion, Says PBO
The federal government’s deal with Volkswagen made earlier this year to incentivize the European automaking giant to build its first overseas electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in Ontario will cost taxpayers over $16 billion, says the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO). “Based on our analysis, the federal government’s financial commitment to Volkswagen will total around $16.3 billion…
Ottawa’s Promise to Plant 2 Billion Trees Without Provinces’ Help Not ‘Realistic’: Environment Commissioner
Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco said on June 13 that the Liberal government needs to implement more “realistic” initiatives, saying the 2019 promise of planting two billion trees can not be done without the provinces’ participation. “They need to concentrate much more on results,” DeMarco testified at the House of Commons natural resources committee. “This is a…
IN-DEPTH: A Look at the Suspects, Many With Long Criminal Histories, Behind Random Attacks in Canada
Canadians have been falling victim to unprovoked stranger attacks with increasing frequency—in the middle of the day, in stores, or walking down the street. A man in London, Ontario, was even stabbed while sitting in his car waiting for a train to pass. Some say Canada’s growing drug problem is to blame, with drug-induced psychosis…
Toronto’s Pearson Airport Fines Poorly Performing Baggage-Handling Companies
A new policy at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport includes penalties for contractors that fail to meet service standards, including baggage handling. During last summer’s travel surge, baggage halls overflowed at Pearson and passengers were often stuck on the tarmac for more than an hour. A September poll by J.D. Power found Pearson ranked among the lowest in customer…
CSIS Director Contradicts Minister Blair on Passage of Intel Related to Beijing Threats
June 14, 2023
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The director of Canada’s spy agency told MPs that the proper protocol had been followed to pass information to the minister of public safety on Beijing threats to parliamentarians, contradicting the minister’s previous testimony. “My understanding of how the information flows from an agency to the minister is that this is sent to the department—in…
‘One of the Greatest Judicial Minds’: Process to Replace Brown on Supreme Court Will Take Time
The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown leaves a big hole in the country’s top court, according to many. Joanna Baron, a lawyer and the executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, said his loss is “monumental.” “Justice Brown was a judge of extraordinary rigour and clarity, who consistently hewed to the demands of…
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