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Democracy Watch ups the ante by arguing that SNC-Lavalin is a person under Conflict of Interest Act
Democracy Watch has called for a probe the role of every person named by
former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould in
her testimony to the Commons justice committee last week.
Alienated: Alberta project seeks to find common language on climate change | CBC News
The project — supported by 75 organizations including government, foundations, universities, churches and industry — is attempting to find a way for different people to at least talk, if not agree. Too often, said Becker, people are afraid to even mention climate change.
“People don’t feel comfortable the moment they start talking about this. They get shut down because they feel they are going to offend someone.”
Or they get defensive.
New Data Shows Wages Stagnated and Inequality Grew Even as the Canadian Economy Boomed in 2017
Even though Canada’s economy appeared to have a strong performance in
2017, a closer at the data is showing that inequality increased and
wages stagnated for working families.
2017, a closer at the data is showing that inequality increased and
wages stagnated for working families.
While the Canadian economy boomed with roughly 3% GDP growth in 2017, new data from Statistics Canada shows most of the gains went straight to the top 10% while incomes for average families barely budged.
“Household spending on cannabis totalled $5.9 billion (in nominal terms)
in the fourth quarter, with illegal cannabis accounting for $4.7
billion and legal cannabis $1.2 billion,” reads a Statistics Canada summary of the data.