Ontario Passes Budget Bill That Makes Government Immune To Most Lawsuits
“Truly, the legislature does not know what it voted for … you couldn’t possibly give it the appropriate attention.”
One “particularly troubling” schedule of the bill will make it nearly impossible to sue the Ontario government, Bryant said.
The secretive role of SNC-Lavalin in the Site C dam | The Narwhal
For one
contract, SNC-Lavalin provided BC Hydro with a “shadow estimate”
— number-crunching to confirm BC Hydro’s figure — for its forecasted
$8.335 billion price tag for the dam, The Narwhal found after reviewing Site C documents.
The estimate proved to be wildly wrong, missing the mark by $2 billion.
But that hasn’t stopped SNC-Lavalin — which has been banned
from World Bank infrastructure contracts for 10 years following
allegations of bribery schemes in Bangladesh — from reaping years of
no-bid work on the Site C dam for engineering design services.
An Early Voter’s Guide to Trudeau (Bad) and Scheer (Worse) | The Tyee
He exempts certain tarsands projects from new environmental assessment rules in a crude trade-off with Alberta;
He considers loosening restrictions on the pollution of major rivers with toxic effluent from tarsands tailing ponds;
He allows the unregulated use of seismic blasting to explore for oil and gas on Canada’s east coast, right whales be damned;
And he has nothing to say about a pulp and
paper mill building a 10-kilometre pipe to carry and dump hastily
treated toxic effluent into prime fishing grounds in the Northumberland
Strait.
Calgary Stampede weighs whether to cut youth pay under new minimum wage law | CBC News
I wonder if this could be shortsighted because the next election, these youth will be voting.
— Leanne Shirtliffe, mom of 15-year-old Vivian Hughes
Leanne
Shirtliffe says her daughter Vivian Hughes qualified for an interview
at the Stampede’s hiring fair, and she had already started to budget the
money she expected to earn when she heard the news that she might earn
less than expected.
“She’s quite disappointed,” Shirtliffe said.
“She’s starting a strong academic program in high school … she doesn’t
want to work when that happens so she was really hoping to save.”
The
lower wage will also apply to students under the age of 18 who work 28
hours a week or less while school is in session. It will also apply for
all hours worked during summer holidays, Christmas and other school
breaks.
Top bureaucrat ‘shocked and angered’ at evidence of Nalcor project team’s secrets | CBC News
Martin was the project “gatekeeper,” and largely
responsible for providing information to government, which is the 100
per cent shareholder of Crown corporation Nalcor Energy.
But
there’s growing evidence that Martin, likely based on the argument that
the information was commercially sensitive, was very selective in the
amount of information shared with government — especially in relation to
cost estimates.