Government Corruption
City of Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said at a press conference on Monday he is pleading with federal Justice Minister David Lametti to take “immediate action” on bail reform.
“I am really, really concerned about the escalation of violence in our city,” said Sohi.
“Particularly the violent incidents that we have experienced, whether close to the Belvedere LRT station, or the random shooting that took place in the west end.”
EPS officers across the city responded to multiple shootings last weekend culminating in the arrest of two suspects.
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Read MoreFormer Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird says CBC News is spinning information once again in favour of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The state broadcaster said one of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s most prominent supporters praised Trudeau’s political leadership during a conference on Tuesday, referring to Baird.
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Read MoreIt also excludes the most powerful decarbonization tool humanity has at its disposal.
New reporting from Bloomberg reveals the truth: ESG, through sloppy accounting, has dumped nearly $30 billion into one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. The beneficiary is Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas firm.
The company never intended to benefit from ESG. In fact, it’s been hostile to the entire project. Amin Nasser, Aramco’s chief executive, has criticized ESG for its bias against traditional energy projects, especially those using fossil fuels. So how did this happen?
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Read MorePrime Minister Justin Trudeau left Belleville, Ontario early after being surrounded by so many people that he hid in his motorcade, then took off.
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Read MoreBudget Officer Yves Giroux is demanding cabinet surrender terms of its multi-billion dollar subsidy agreements with Volkswagen and Stellantis by month’s end. “I am entitled to free and timely access,” he wrote.
“I often require information held by government departments and Crown corporations and I am entitled to free and timely access,” Giroux wrote in a July 17 letter to Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
“Providing timely and effective analysis to the Senate and House of Commons and promoting greater budget transparency and accountability are the Budget Office’s primary objectives,” wrote Giroux. “The degree to which this is possible depends to a large extent on free and timely access to quality information held by government departments.”
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Read MoreA petition opposing federal introduction of a public registry of foreign agents has closed with fewer than 2,500 signatures, a fraction of other petitions, records show. Liberal-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo had appealed to Canadians to rally behind it.
“Sign the petition,” Senator Woo wrote in Facebook and Twitter posts. Any foreign registry “poses a serious harassment and stigmatization risk for racialized communities,” he said.
Petition E-4395 opposed a registry “as a misleading way to identify sources of foreign influence,” it said. “It is difficult to distinguish between positive and malign foreign influence which goes well beyond agents who are acting for foreign governments.”
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Read MoreCrude racism is so commonplace in the federal public service one Black manager says a co-worker taunted her with a stuffed monkey. The allegation was submitted in writing to a parliamentary committee investigating complaints of bigotry.
“An employee entered my office,” wrote Kethlande Pierre, deputy director of the patent office. “In her hand she had a stuffed animal, a monkey.” Pierre said the employee told her she should work as a janitor instead of deputy director.
“I left the office in tears,” Pierre wrote the Senate human rights committee. “I felt small, humiliated, ashamed.”
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Read MoreThe Parliamentary Budget Officer, Yves Giroux, is asking the cabinet to provide the details of its multi-billion dollar subsidy agreements with Volkswagen (VW) and Stellantis by the end of the month.
“I often require information held by government departments and Crown corporations and I am entitled to free and timely access,” Giroux wrote in a July 17 letter to Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
“Providing timely and effective analysis to the Senate and House of Commons and promoting greater budget transparency and accountability are the Budget Office’s primary objectives,” wrote Giroux.
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Read MoreOTTAWA – NDP health critic Don Davies says the resignation of a scientific adviser from the federal pesticide regulator is yet another example of industry having too much influence at Health Canada.
Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a health-sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, stepped down as co-chair of Health Canada’s scientific advisory committee on pest control products late last month.
He cited concerns over the role the pesticide industry plays in the regulatory process, pointing to a tendency to favour industry-provided data over more broad, independent studies.
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Read MoreConservative MP Andrew Scheer reminded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about his past, on Monday, tweeting a picture of the PM in blackface.
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