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Federal caribou protection measures | Uncertainty persists over job losses
The Legault government continues to maintain uncertainty about how it will assess the job losses that would result from the federal emergency decree imposing protective measures for the three endangered…
Federal government posts $3.9 billion deficit in April and May
(Ottawa) The federal government recorded a deficit of 3.9 billion during the first two months of the fiscal year. Published at 12:53 p.m. The result for the period from April…
Robinson Treaties Violated: Federal Government Must Find Settlement with Anishinaabe, Says Supreme Court of Canada
The Crown dishonourably breached the Robinson Treaties and must negotiate a settlement with First Nations within six months, the Supreme Court of Canada rules. The two treaties, signed in 1850,…
Federal Competition Bureau | Investigation into gasoline pricing consulting firm
(Gatineau) The federal Competition Bureau announced that it has launched an investigation into gasoline pricing consulting firm Kalibrate to determine whether the services it offers harm competition among gas stations…
Federal decree for the protection of caribou | Achieving carbon neutrality in danger, says Quebec
The emergency measures to protect forest caribou that Ottawa plans to impose on Quebec will harm Quebec’s energy development and jeopardize the province’s achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050, the…
Federal emergency decree to protect caribou would lead to at least 2,000 job losses, warns Quebec
If it does indeed go ahead with its emergency decree to protect caribou, Ottawa will have to “bear the burden” of at least 2,000 job losses, warns the Quebec government,…
Federal government grants $1.2 million to grocery store code of conduct office
(Whitehorse) Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says the government will provide $1.2 million in funding to support the creation of the office that will oversee the Grocery Store Code of…
Gatineau MP Steven MacKinnon becomes federal Minister of Labour and Seniors
Gatineau MP Steven MacKinnon became the federal minister of labour and seniors on Friday, replacing Seamus O’Regan, who left the cabinet the day before citing his need to spend more…
UAM students convinced the federal justice minister to re-evaluate two cases of potential miscarriages of justice
The Innocence Project Quebec, a non-profit organization that defends victims of miscarriages of justice free of charge, has led the Justice Department to re-evaluate two cases in which people had…
Caribou Protection and Forestry | Federal Decree Impact Less Significant Than Expected
The impact on the forestry industry of the emergency decree that Ottawa is preparing to protect three herds of caribou in Quebec is expected to be less significant than what…
Federal Caribou Decree Would Have Little Impact on Forestry Possibilities
The federal government’s proposed emergency decree to protect three Quebec caribou populations would reduce the province’s annual forest potential by just 4%, according to calculations by the Chief Forester published…
The federal government is not putting on its pants by authorizing the destruction of 37 lakes and waterways in Quebec
This week we learned that the federal government is authorizing the destruction of 37 bodies of water, including 8 lakes, to serve as garbage dumps for the mining industry. Farewell…
Federal Contracting | $64 Million Lawsuit Against Ottawa
(Ottawa) One of the consulting firms whose 81 contracts were suspended in the wake of the scandal ArriveCAN is suing the federal government for $64 million. Coradix Technology Consulting is…
Federal Appeals Court Ruling | No Fundamental Right to Change Sex on Birth Certificate
(Nashville) A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 Friday that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates.…
Federal Government | Gatineau IT consultant charged with fraud
At the end of a parliamentary session where the costs of federal government IT consultants were repeatedly criticized, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced Tuesday that criminal charges have…
The federal government is still open to funding work on the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church
The failure to sell the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church to the Coptic Orthodox community has reshuffled the cards for its future. The City of Quebec is once again offering to buy it,…
Federal government officially imposes 3% tax on digital services
In the absence of an international agreement on taxing digital giants, Ottawa is officially imposing a 3% tax on the services they offer in Canada, more than three and a…
Federal government to ban logging on 1.6 million hectares to protect caribou
As part of its decree for the protection of the woodland caribou, the federal government plans to withdraw 1.6 million hectares from the forestry industry, including one million hectares in…
Federal rule protecting LGBTQ+ youth blocked in four US states
Enforcement of a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students has been blocked in four states by a federal judge in Kansas. U.S. District Judge John Broomes suggested in…
Federal government | Return to the office three days a week: 91% oppose it
(Montreal) Some 91% of federal public servants who are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada “firmly oppose” the directive to return to work in the office three days…