TORONTO — In a sign of just how dramatically the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, Premier Doug Ford’s government is expected to post a record-shattering $38.5-billion deficit in its budget Thursday. Former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne left behind a $7.4-billion deficit, which Ford had vowed to eliminate. The Progressive Conservative premier rode to power […]
As the Justice Department trumpets its deal with JPMorgan on Tuesday as a record-setting government crackdown on a big bank, critics charge that the penalty in fact allows JPMorgan to destroy people’s lives with impunity and invites other banks to do the same. “The issue is that JPMorgan broke the law. They made criminal misrepresentations,” […]
The day after two major developments in the U.S. saw worker pensions put on the chopping block in order to bail out state and local governments, an analysis in the New York Times shows that across the Atlantic, European nations are now stripping their worker protections and dismantling pensions as they follow the established American […]
In a Christmas Eve ruling that passed with little fanfare, three U.S. Appeals Court Judges gave their legal stamp of approval to indefinite detentions without trial for prisoners of the U.S. military in occupied Afghanistan. In a 44-page decision, penned by George H.W. Bush appointee Judge Karen Henderson, the habeas corpus petitions filed by five […]
Lando Norris issued an apology on social media for comments expressed in interviews after last weekend’s Portuguese GP. Norris took to Twitter on Tuesday to make amends for his behavior although the McLaren driver did not specify the exact comments to which the apology related. “I owe an apology,” he wrote. “I’ve been stupid and […]
The Ontario government promised Monday to establish a new standard that would see nursing home residents receive an average of four hours of direct care every day, but critics said the province wasn’t moving fast enough to implement the measure. Premier Doug Ford pledged to achieve the standard by 2024-2025 and said the province will […]
HALIFAX — A group of Nova Scotia Indigenous leaders has levelled harassment allegations at the federal government over an ongoing moderate livelihood fishery dispute, accusing the department responsible for fisheries of planning to seize gear from lobster trappers in the province. The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs issued a statement on Friday saying they’d […]
As Canada continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the fate of trick-or-treating in 2020 was up in the air in the lead-up to Halloween. Experts were divided on the safety of letting kids go out, and official guidelines varied greatly in different parts of the country. In many parts of the country, however, Canadians decided […]
As U.S presidential election results are expected to roll out into early Wednesday morning and beyond, Americans are stressed. Heck, Canadians are also stressed, even though we aren’t voting today (contrary to what Donald Trump Jr. thinks). With a tight race between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden in progress and many […]
Ontario and Quebec are both reporting more than one thousand new COVID-19 cases, while farther west in Manitoba, officials again reported hundreds of new cases as its capital city gets set for tighter restrictions. Ontario reported 1,015 new cases on Saturday, marking the second time this week the count has surpassed the one-thousand mark. Quebec […]