from Hill Times
The evidence, consisting of sworn court affidavits from two Elections Canada investigators who probed the complaints that surfaced following a nationwide controversy over alleged voter-suppression tactics last February, will be filed in Federal Court on Friday, December 7…
from The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Ottawa was awash in speculation Thursday that the pricetag for the life-time cost of the oft-maligned F-35 fighter was about to take a huge jump.
A government sponsored report written by the accounting firm KPMG is widely expected to show that the pricetag of owning 65 stealth fighters could stretch to $40 billion…
from iPolitics
from Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations
MONTREAL, October 22, 2012 — On October 16, 2012, the Superior Court of Quebec gave a green light to eight Filipina Live-in Caregivers (LIC) and Pinay, a local Filipina rights group, to proceed in their motion for judicial review of the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission’s negative decision about their case, by rejecting the Commission’s motion to have the case dismissed…
from The Independent
More than 110,000 people have signed a petition calling for the Leveson Report to be implemented in full, despite growing fears that some of its less-publicised recommendations could hamper investigative journalism…
from The Toronto Star
If the UN decision to recognize Palestine was as meaningless as it’s made out to be, why did its opponents fight so ferociously against it?…
from Metro Vancouver
Cheers and applause erupted at the BC Federation of Labour’s annual convention in Vancouver Thursday as NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair accused the federal government of fast-tracking temporary workers’ permits for HD Mining…
from Canada.com
OTTAWA – Newly released court documents show that Elections Canada
has obtained phone records from across the country as it probes misleading
election calls that investigators believe were "wilful conduct" aimed at
keeping voters from casting their ballots.
from Global News
OTTAWA – The New Democrats' efforts to help Canada send desperately needed
medication overseas to people suffering with HIV/AIDS was defeated in the House of
Commons Wednesday – an action some are calling a "travesty" and a "betrayal."
from Al Jazeera
Three mid-level managers held for preventing workers from leaving factory premises after fire alarm went off.
