Jan 20 2023 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — The CAF’s Judge Advocate General was found to have made an ‘adverse impact’ on the career of a subordinate who made a complaint against her. An investigation into the head of Canada’s military justice system found she had an “adverse impact” on a subordinate’s career when she inquired if a complaint they had made against […]
Dec 21 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — A Toronto public affairs firm and its senior executive are suing Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller for $2 million, claiming his “absurd” allegation that Brian Fox paraded around with a Nazi flag during last winter’s protest in Ottawa was “character assassination.” “Mr. Miller’s claims that Mr. Fox and Enterprise Canada were involved in any way […]
Dec 8 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — “Partially agreed.” With two milquetoast words contained in the response to Auditor General Karen Hogan’s report on COVID-19 benefits published Tuesday, the Canada Revenue Agency and Employment and Social Development Canada sent a shock wave across the federal government. The organizations broke with the longstanding tradition of agreeing with all the auditor general’s recommendations, saying […]
Dec 6 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Canada’s auditor general says a “minimum” of $27.4 billion in suspicious COVID-19 benefit payments need to be investigated because the government did not manage the aid programs efficiently, and will likely fail to recover “significant” amounts in overpayments. That’s in addition to $4.6 billion in confirmed government overpayments throughout the half-dozen COVID-19 aid programs it […]
Nov 30 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Officials say the agency has already discovered about 25,000 cases of fraudulent payments tied to identity theft, ‘a scale we haven’t seen in the past.’ CRA is clawing back $3.2 billion in COVID-19 financial aid benefit overpayments, a staggering number that’s just the beginning of the agency’s monumental task of recouping billions in excessive or […]
Oct 25 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — MPs unanimously voted to demand answers from the Ontario Provincial Police on its “wildly different” testimony about the security threat posed by the Freedom Convoy protests. In a rare show of parliamentary unity, members of all parties on the Commons public safety and national security committee approved a motion requiring an “immediate response” from the […]
Oct 18 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Midway through the Freedom Convoy protests, Canada’s spy agency worried that they were being used as a “recruiting ground” for other causes but saw no sign of foreign threat actors supporting the movement. A first glimpse into assessments of the convoy by Canada’s secretive intelligence agencies is contained in a summary of a call between […]
Sep 23 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — The federal government admitted certain items on the nearly $100,000 in-flight catering bill for the governor general’s eight-day trip to Dubai in 2020 were “problematic” and is working to make sure it doesn’t happen again. “The costs were really shocking to all of us. We had eggs! We had omelettes!” deputy secretary to the Office […]
Sep 19 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — A witness in the sexual assault case against the senior military officer in charge of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout says she was “horrified” and in “shock” to wake up to him allegedly assaulting her as she slept while they were both students at military college. The alleged victim was the first to testify in the […]
Sep 7 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Freeland’s name has also swirled as a possible replacement as head of the Liberal Party of Canada when Trudeau eventually steps down. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she “already” has a “really big job” but did not deny rumours that she could be in the running to become the next secretary general of the […]
Jul 7 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Members of the Conservative leadership committee responsible for vetting candidates recommended back in the spring that Patrick Brown’s campaign application not be approved, National Post has learned. Multiple sources familiar with deliberations of the Conservative Party of Canada’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) told National Post that the members of its Leadership Candidate Nomination Committee […]
Jul 6 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — The most stringent COVID-19 public health measures may be a thing of the past (for now), but Parti Conservateur du Québec Leader Éric Duhaime still won’t stop harping on “freedom.” In fact on Tuesday, Duhaime released his party’s new slogan, “Libres chez nous” (which he translates to “freedom at home”) as it gears up for […]
Jun 9 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith says he is “seriously considering” running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership as the party embarks on a rebuild after two devastating provincial election loses. “There’s no question I’m interested in helping to rebuild the party, and I’m seriously looking at the leadership,” Erskine-Smith said in an interview Thursday morning. “All […]
Jun 1 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — The messages accuse Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and other MPs of being under the shadowy influence of the World Economic Forum. The federal ethics commissioner’s office was flooded with over 1,000 emails, calls, letters and even faxes this winter from people asking it to investigate a conspiracy theory claiming some parliamentarians and Finance Minister Chrystia […]
May 17 2022 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre says he is consulting with legal experts to find a way to “curtail” the federal Emergencies Act to prevent it from being used for “political purposes” like during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.