CBC’s The Fifth Estate recently broke the news that the Canada Revenue Agency had discovered that hackers had managed to obtain confidential data on taxpayers used by private tax firm H&R Block. Fraudsters then used the confidential information, including H&R … Continue reading →

From the early days before Confederation, Canada’s earliest settler leaders treated Indigenous peoples as others. They created systems that were designed to assimilate Indigenous peoples and strip them of their identity and their culture. One of the most widely recognized … Continue reading →

For almost a month now, the House of Commons has been at a standstill. It’s been paralyzed over a dispute about how and when the government should release documents related to its green technology fund. So what’s going on and … Continue reading →

On October 1st, the Prime Minister made an astonishing admission that hasn’t made much of a ripple on most mainstream Canadian media. That day, he appeared on Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s Uncommons podcast to discuss his thoughts on the next … Continue reading →

Canadians are understandably feeling a little anxious about health care these days. The past few years saw the Canadian health care system strain under the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors and nurses who did everything they could to keep … Continue reading →

In late September, Jennifer Morgan, the German state secretary and special envoy for international climate action made a relatively innocuous comment that seemed to prod a wide range of responses from businesses and political leaders across Canada. As an environmentalist … Continue reading →

In the first week of September, following Labour Day, New Democrats formally ended the Supply and Confidence Agreement with the governing Liberals. While some observers seemed shocked by the deal breaking when it did, others seemed to have been surprised … Continue reading →

At the end of August, the Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux released his department’s Fiscal Sustainability Report. While not necessarily the most attention-grabbing item on the agenda at the end of summer, it’s a deep dive into how well federal … Continue reading →

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government made changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) to help businesses cope with low unemployment rates that made it hard for some of them to find employees. While changes … Continue reading →

After months of unsuccessful attempts at a fair collective bargaining process, there is a large impasse between rail workers with the Teamsters union and the Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) companies. It’s an exceptionally … Continue reading →