Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion see no evidence that Prime Minister Trudeau has anything with the contract awards to his long term friend’s company Data Sciences Inc. Mr. Pitfield the CEO of Date Sciences Inc. has been awarded different contracts which the ethics commissioner was looking into because Tom is not only his friend but he was the Liberal strategist in …

People’s Party of Canada leader Max. Bernier told reporters that he is not going to get COVID-19 Vaccine just after his arrest and release after 8 hours of lockup, He is now in Montreal and has cancelled his Mad Max pre election campaign. The Public Health Agency of Canada released data Friday that show fully vaccinated Canadians have accounted for …

Budget 2021: 20 ways it could affect your wallet 1. Extension of Canada Recovery Benefit and Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit Earlier this year, the government announced that both the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) and Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB) would be extended by 12 weeks to a maximum of 38 weeks. Budget 2021 proposes adding up to 12 more to …

Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said the changes along the provincial borders would take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Monday. Jones said incoming travellers not meeting a list of prescribed exceptions will be turned back. Quebec has since signalled the province will be closed to travellers coming in from Ontario. The Ontario government announced an extended provincewide stay-at-home order and new restrictions …

If you are a young person living in Mississauga’s Malton or Brampton’s Bramalea neighbourhoods, you might be able to book a vaccine appointment as early as this week. On April 13, Premier Doug Ford provided an update to last week’s announcement that people aged 18 and over in designated hot spots, as identified by postal code, are eligible for vaccination …

Matthew Fisher, who has died aged 66, was a Canadian war correspondent from a bygone era, a globetrotting solo reporter of no fixed address who witnessed the greatest and most dire news events of the last half century, from the fall of communism through the campaigns against al-Qaeda and ISIS. He died of liver failure after a short illness in …

There are 1,036,023 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,036,023 confirmed cases (64,291 active, 948,521 resolved, 23,211 deaths).*The total case count includes 13 confirmed cases among repatriated travellers. There were 7,984 new cases Thursday. The rate of active cases is 169.16 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 48,108 new cases. The seven-day …

Canada’s national carbon tax will remain intact after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of its legality. The federal law sets minimum standards for carbon pricing with the intent to price out emissions over time. Three provincial governments had pushed back on the plan, arguing Ottawa overstepped its role with the scheme. The court’s decision bolsters the key component …

Questions around delays in Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine deliveries remain outstanding, with reductions in both Modern and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses coming throughout February. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vice-president of logistics and operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada and head of the country’s vaccine distribution efforts, confirmed that 180,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Canada Thursday morning. …