Shooting a fly with an elephant gun: The Bloc’s ultimatum on …
网页1 天前 · Thanks to a more precarious minority Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is flexing more policy muscle than it has in a while. It has laid out the conditions for its temporary willingness to support the minority Liberals, one of which would significantly increase key cash benefits paid to Canadian seniors.. The Bloc would like to see its draft bill C-319 become law, and it now has the symbolic ...
Canada ’seriously’ considering high-speed rail link between …
网页1 天前 · The federal government is seriously considering building the country’s first high-speed rail link between Quebec City and Toronto, says Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Ottawa announced plans back in 2021 to build what it called a high-frequency (HFR) rail corridor with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Laval and Quebec City.
Caught in an aggressive hunt for documents, Parliament is getting ...
网页1 天前 · Some amount of parliamentary gamesmanship is to be expected whenever and wherever MPs gather. But some days it’s hard to look at the games being played and see how anyone — least of all Canadians — could be said to be winning.
Wealthier Canadians live longer and are less likely to be …
网页2 天之前 · By Marie-Louise Leroux, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), The Conversation. Population aging is a growing challenge for developed countries like Canada, with significant implications for health care and long-term care systems.In OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, the population of ...
Only the United States benefits from renegotiating the Canada-U.S ...
网页2024年9月30日 · By Blayne Haggart, Brock University, The Conversation. There is a ticking time bomb at the heart of the North American economy. And this is the year that it begins to detonate. Over the past several months, Canadian businesses and analysts have been pressuring the federal government to better prepare for the mandated renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that ...
Quebec (and Ottawa) fail victims of violence
网页4 天之前 · In 1980, victim compensation cost $7 million. By 2019, that amount had risen to more than $154 million. Quebec had been wanting to eliminate lifetime payments since 1992, when Ottawa ended cost-sharing with the provinces and territories. The federal program had aimed to encourage the introduction of …
Airlines can be required to provide compensation for international ...
网页6 天之前 · In a unanimous ruling, all nine justices of Canada’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by two airline associations and a group of air carriers that serve Canada and other international airports arguing that Canada’s passenger protection regulations violate international law.
What’s behind Canada’s housing crisis? Experts break down the …
网页6 天之前 · Canadians are in the grip of a deepening housing crisis, yet not everyone agrees on what exactly the housing crisis is. The common narrative focuses on an affordability crisis for homeownership, attributed to either excessive demand from immigrants and foreign buyers or a lack of supply. Canada’s ...
Canada and N.W.T. sign historic funding agreement with Inuvialuit …
网页2024年10月2日 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced agreement during Inuvik visit Monday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Inuvik, N.W.T., on Monday to sign a funding agreement with the N.W.T. government and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation in support of Inuit-led child and family services. The agreement ...
More than half of recent Senate appointments have ties to Liberal …
网页2024年7月13日 · Since July 2023, Trudeau has nominated 12 senators, eight of whom — 66 per cent of the total — have donated money to the federal Liberals or have worked with the federal party or a provincial Liberal party.