May 21 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — A group representing hundreds of thousands of students across Canada has launched an online campaign calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to make billions of dollars in student loans interest-free. In a series of Facebook ads, the Canadian Federation of Students says the federal government shouldn’t be profiting from student loans and should follow […]
May 14 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — The plight of thousands of Canadian residents facing massive bills as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax reform, will be on the agenda when a committee of MPs and senators heads to Washington this week. Liberal MP Wayne Easter, co-chair of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group, said the top priority when Canadian lawmakers […]
May 7 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are pitching at Donald Trump supporters with Facebook ads. Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are directing ads at Facebook users based on their ages and where they live. Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats, meanwhile, seem to be running few, if any, Facebook ads. The social media battle already underway just below the surface […]
May 2 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government should be doing more to help thousands of Canadian residents being hit hard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax reform, say opposition critics. “This is destroying the retirement plans of many Canadians who have used these corporations, often as part of their tax planning for their retirement,” said New Democrat […]
Apr 30 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Thousands of Canadian residents are facing massive tax bills because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s December tax reform, CBC News has learned. Canadian residents with U.S. or dual citizenship who own Canadian corporations are being slapped by an American measure meant to get big U.S. multinationals to stop parking billions of dollars in offshore subsidiaries […]
Apr 24 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were aware far earlier than previously revealed that a man once convicted of attempted murder had been invited to a reception in India with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In a document quietly tabled in Parliament Monday, the government said the RCMP first learned on Feb. 20 that Jaspal Atwal had […]
Apr 17 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Environment, immigration, trains and those who fight gender-based violence will be getting a lot more money in the year to come, according to detailed spending plans tabled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Monday. A review of the main estimates for the coming year also shows that the government will be spending a lot less […]
Apr 9 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — The federal government has spent more than $38 million on legal proceedings involving Canada’s veterans over the past two years. Nearly $1 million of that amount has been spent on legal fees for two lawsuits launched in 2016 by former members of the military who allege they were sexually assaulted or sexually harassed while they […]
Mar 27 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke his silence today on the latest twist in the Aga Khan scandal, saying he received an overnight bag from the Ismaili Muslim leader during his vacation on his private island in the Bahamas. In exchange, Trudeau gave the Aga Khan a sweater, the prime minister said during a raucous exchange […]
Mar 27 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — An apparent loophole in the federal government’s ethics rules may prevent Canadians from ever knowing what gifts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family received from the Aga Khan during their controversial vacation on his private island in the Bahamas, CBC News has learned. Trudeau’s office says he doesn’t have to tell Canadians about the […]
Mar 24 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has spent more than $150,000 to bring people from across the country to participate in government announcements, according to documents tabled in Parliament. Half that tab — $76,431 — was spent on one event: to bring 43 family members and loved ones to the August 2016 launch of the inquiry […]
Mar 16 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s office has found “significant deficiencies” in the way a federal Crown corporation has been run — citing, among other things, $11,000 in “spousal expenses” charged to the corporation in 2016. In a special examination of the Great Lake Pilotage Authority, Ferguson’s office also found expense account receipts were missing and the […]
Mar 2 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — A controversial proposal to give the Canadian government more powers to share confidential tax return information with police in foreign countries should be broken out of the budget and tabled separately in the House of Commons, said Conservative revenue critic Pat Kelly. “We should have an opportunity to debate it separately and at committee hear […]
Mar 1 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Confidential information from Canadian taxpayers could soon be shared with police and authorities in three dozen countries around the world, under measures included in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s latest budget. In an inconspicuous section tucked into a small 78-page annex to the budget, the government says it wants to give police and tax authorities new […]
Feb 12 2018 — Elizabeth Thompson — CBC — Hosting top world leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Quebec’s picturesque Charlevoix region is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers $224.6 million dollars. According to spending estimates tabled in the House of Commons Monday, the price tag for hosting the gathering of world leaders, and the meetings leading up to it, will be steep. Security […]