Government Corruption
More than $2 billion in Canada Emergency Response Benefit payments have been clawed back from undeserving applicants, says the Department of Employment. The billions were deducted from tax refunds or Employment Insurance cheques.
“As of May 5 a total 1,108,676 clients have fully repaid their debts,” said a department briefing note. Repayments totaled $2,110,000,000. “A balance of $1 billion remains unpaid,” said the note Canadians Waiting To Have Their CERB Eligibility Status Reviewed May Still Lose Money To Clawbacks.
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Read MoreAccess Copyright, one of the country’s largest collectives representing 13,000 authors, yesterday said it will lay off staff and cut budgets due to the loss of millions in royalties under an Act of Parliament. Cabinet has yet to adopt a 2019 recommendation of the Commons heritage committee that it curb free photocopying under the Copyright Act.
“Access Copyright’s board of directors has made the difficult decision to initiate a significant downsizing and restructuring of the organization due to the federal government’s decade-long inaction in fixing Canada’s publishing marketplace,” the group said in a statement. It did not respond to questions. The scope of job cuts was not detailed.
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Read MoreThe Hamilton Police Association (HPA) is condemning Hamilton-Centre NDP MPP Sarah Jama for attending a far-left No Pride In Policing Coalition march focused on abolishing law enforcement.
In a statement to True North, HPA spokesperson Jaimi Bannon said, “every Ontario family deserves to feel safe in their homes and in their communities. They have made it loud and clear that they support and want more investment in police and public safety.”
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Read MoreGovernor General of Canada Mary Simon charged taxpayers a staggering $71,000 for her limousine bill from a four-day trip to Iceland in 2022, as reported by the National Post.
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Read MoreWhen does necessary spending shift to wasteful spending, then spiral into unacceptably selfish decadence?
Every time Governor General Mary Simon goes on a trip.
That extravagant woman and her indulgent “battalion of bureaucrats” are testing the loyalty of hard-working Canadians who respect the office — and fuelling the contempt of Canadians who don’t.
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Read MoreUsing the power of the federal government to pressure Big Tech into censoring “disinformation” is a modern Pandora’s box. Sure, the Biden administration may decrease the influence of its critics—in an astonishing violation of the First Amendment—but it also enables bad actors to weaponize this very tool against the U.S. government itself, in an utterly embarrassing cautionary tale.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an astonishing report Monday, revealing that the FBI under President Joe Biden urged Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to remove the U.S. State Department’s official Russian-language Instagram account.
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Read MoreLast week, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop strong-arming Big Tech into silencing Americans’ free speech online in a first-of-its-kind temporary injunction. Rather than celebrating this move to uphold free speech, many legacy media outlets appear to be demonizing the very idea of protecting speech from government censorship, according to one of the lead attorneys in the case.
Liz Murrill, the solicitor general of Louisiana and co-counsel in the case Missouri v. Biden, spoke with The Daily Signal about the “misinformation or disinformation censorship complex” and criticized media outlets for suggesting that this censorship apparatus is a good thing.
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Read MoreDr. Anthony Fauci, once the highest-paid employee of the federal government, might have to pay back his salary for his final year at the National Institutes of Health, based on a congressional committee’s finding that he wasn’t legally appointed by the Biden administration.
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Monday that they sent a letter Friday to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra pointing out that Fauci and 13 other NIH officials weren’t formally reappointed to their positions in December 2021.
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