Pandemic fines top $13 million, study says; punitive approach criticized
It finds a key issue with the enforcement approach is that marginalized and vulnerable groups tended to bear the brunt of police and bylaw action.
The federal Conservative leadership race takes a turn both sinister and juvenile – Alberta Politics
About the best either of them could have hoped for was to generate a leadership contest with enough suspense to give the impression of a real race for a prize worth winning and then wait prayerfully for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mess up again like he almost did last year.
Tory leadership race is a dirty diaper. Meanwhile, back at the asylum, the lunatics are ruining Alberta
Budget office sheds fresh light on public debt and private wealth | Starr’s Point
Looking first at the pandemic scenario analysis, it is the fourth
completed by PBO since COVID-19 and the steep drop in oil prices shook
up government budgets. In spite of an additional $24.5 billion in new
spending announced since the April 30 analysis, the projected deficit is
less than four billion higher.
Half of Chinese-Canadians say targets of COVID-19 discrimination: Poll
It has left many feeling dejected, believing that their compatriots do not view them as “fully Canadian,” the polling firm said.
And
61 per cent said they changed their daily routines to avoid run-ins and
harassment, while just over half fear their children will be bullied
over the COVID-19 outbreak when they return to school.
Canada: Unifor urges acceptance of historic concessions in oil refinery lockout
Although the fine details of the agreement will not be
made public until workers vote on the contract on Monday, it is clear
that the agreement approved by Unifor is a sellout that will meet all of
management’s sweeping concession demands.
For many weeks, Unifor
has made no secret of the fact that it has capitulated to every one of
the cuts to pensions, jobs and work rules ruthlessly demanded by the
company. Local union President Kevin Bittman told reporters as much
earlier this month, saying, “Right now we’ve actually offered the
company everything that they’ve asked for, and the only thing that we
request is that they don’t fire 100 people. What we had going into this
bargaining is pretty much toast.”