Feb 28 2020 — CBC — A little-known feature on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website is netting some Canadians hundreds of dollars they are owed from uncashed government cheques. The windfall ended up on people’s radar thanks to a Reddit post by user hdrons, and a tweet by Toronto Maple Leafs fan account @3rdperiodsuits:
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — Subway has been ordered to pay the CBC $500,000 in legal costs following its failed bid to sue the public broadcaster for defamation. In his decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Ed Morgan attributed much of the length and complexity of the legal battle to the approach taken by the fast-food chain. Subway had sued the […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he’s not committing to a provincial election in October. Moe says there’s more unrest in the country than usual. He cites ongoing rail blockades and the spread of the novel coronavirus that are affecting the economy. The government had set the next provincial election date for October.
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en are meeting for a second day with senior federal and provincial ministers as they try to break an impasse in a pipeline dispute that’s sparked national protests and led to disruptions in the economy. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British Columbia Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser began […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — The federal government ran a deficit of $11.0 billion over the first nine months of its 2019-20 fiscal year. The result compared with a surplus of $324 million for the same period of its 2018–19 fiscal year. In its monthly fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says revenue for the April-to-December period totalled $246.0 billion, up […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — A human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company can be heard in British Columbia, even though it involves events in Africa, the Supreme Court of Canada says. The high court ruled Friday against B.C.-based Nevsun Resources (TSX:NSU), which had argued the claim should not proceed because a Canadian court could not decide the legality of […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — The Manitoba government is pushing ahead with a court challenge of the federal carbon tax although Premier Brian Pallister says he’d still like to see a deal with Ottawa. Pallister says his government has filed its written arguments in Federal Court and is asking for a judicial review to strike down the federal tax. He […]
Feb 28 2020 — Global News — In a brief editorial that doesn’t pull punches, SooToday editor Mike Purvis announced this week that the site would be closing all comments on stories about Indigenous issues. “It’s not that we don’t think it’s a topic worthy of discussion,” Purvis wrote. Au contraire, he explained: “Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people is one of the […]
Feb 28 2020 — As the stock market on Friday continued to nosedive over COVID-19 fears, the White House defended President Donald Trump’s response to the new coronavirus as he and his supporters continued to downplay the threat and accuse Democrats and the news media of hyping the risk to weaken him politically.
Feb 28 2020 — The stock market cratered again on Friday, marking the seventh day of a massive sell-off sparked by rising fears about the coronavirus epidemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by another 1,000 points Friday morning, on the heels of Thursday’s historic decline of 1,190, the biggest drop ever for the blue-chip index.
Feb 28 2020 — A federal appeals court on Friday delivered two blows to the Trump administration’s immigration policy, ruling against a program to force migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico and against a rule severely limiting the number of migrants who were eligible for asylum.
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — Statistics Canada said Friday economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter to come in at an annualized rate of 0.3 per cent, its worst showing since the second quarter of 2016 when the economy contracted. The federal agency also revised its reading for the third quarter down to an annual rate of 1.1 per cent […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — There is a new lead in the case of the missing icebreaker, though exactly how the story will end remains to be seen. The fate of the Canadian Coast Guard’s next heavy icebreaker has been wrapped in mystery since the federal Liberal government quietly removed the $1.3-billion project from Vancouver shipyard Seaspan’s order book in […]
Feb 28 2020 — The Canadian Press — The Conservative opposition says the government must compensate dairy farmers within 90 days of the new North American trade deal becoming law, saying the sector is the biggest loser in the renegotiated continental trade pact. The recommendation comes in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland from Conservative MPs, a copy of which was […]
Feb 28 2020 — Associated Press — Global stock markets plunged further Friday on spreading virus fears, deepening a global rout after Wall Street endured its biggest one-day drop in nine years. Germany’s DAX skidded more than 5%, Tokyo and Shanghai closed 3.7% lower and New York markets looked set for more losses with the futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]