Getting the government and society you wanted.
No wonder the Ukrainians don't want to come here:
The federal government is imposing its fuel charge — commonly called the carbon tax — on consumers in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday that although Ottawa will begin imposing its federal carbon backstop on these provinces, it will not kick in until Canada Day, long after winter has passed.
"We are in a federation and we have to be able to take into account different regional realities in the country. And that's exactly what we've done with our system," Guilbeault said.
Phase out gas and get us to walk, Goebbels.
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“If the CBC has enough money lying around to hand out millions in bonuses and raises during a pandemic, then taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to fork over more money,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “The CBC should stop handing out bonuses and raises instead of taking more money from taxpayers.”
The CBC gave its employees more than $156 million in bonuses and raises since 2015, according to documents the CTF obtained through access to information requests.
The bonuses work out to an average of more than $14,200 per year for employees that received a bonus. The raises work out to more than $1,800 per year for employees that received a raise.
The CBC handed out more than $51 million in bonuses and pay raises during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Only one CBC employee received a pay cut during the pandemic.
The recent Fiscal Update is giving “$42 million to help CBC/Radio-Canada recover from the pandemic,” according to the National Post.
In Budget 2021, the federal government gave the CBC an extra $21 million to “ensure its stability during the pandemic.”
The CBC received more than $1.2 billion from taxpayers in 2021. Since the beginning of 2015, the CBC’s annual funding from taxpayers has increased by more than $203 million, or 20 per cent, according to its annual reports.
“The CBC shouldn’t be taking more than $1 billion from taxpayers every year,” said Kris Sims, Alberta Director of the CTF. “It’s tone deaf for the CBC to hand out pay raises and bonuses while many workers in the private sector took pay cuts and lost their jobs.”
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Mistaken payments of $2,000 monthly pandemic benefit cheques cost at least $5.3 billion, records show. It is the largest sum disclosed to date under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program: “When creating a program as quickly as we did there is going to be some abuse.”
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Baffinland Iron Mines' expansion project for the Mary River mine site in Nunavut won't be going ahead for the foreseeable future.
On Wednesday, Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal delivered his verdict on whether the company could go ahead with its Phase 2 project at the mine — and the answer was a no.
In a letter, the minister wrote that he, along with other responsible ministers, have "carefully considered" the proposal, along with the input from designated Inuit organizations, and that he's decide to accept the Nunavut Impact Review Board's earlier recommendation "that Phase 2 should not proceed at this time."
The expansion project would have seen the mine's annual output double to 12 million tonnes of ore. The project would have also involved the construction of a new 110-kilometre railway to the Milne Inlet port.
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Compare and contrast:
The president of the Quebec College of Physicians wants to explore the prospect of euthanizing suffering babies and believes it’s nobody’s business but doctors’.
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MacDonald first arrived at the IWK Health Centre with her mother and husband around 4:30 a.m.
She went to an early assessment area, where she was given underwear with a pad and told there was “no space” for her as 22 other babies were being born.
During her wait, she said she was checked by the resident and the doctor on-call. She knew she would have to get an IV later on, and asked if she could have a smaller needle because she has small veins and has previously had difficulty with IVs.
“Her response to that was … ‘I don't care which size IV you get. I'm going off shift,’” she alleged.
After about four hours, she said she was moved to a room in the early assessment and labour ward. She laid on the bed, still wearing the dress she arrived at the hospital in, and said she was not offered a hospital gown, water, or even an extra blanket or pillow.
“I'm in labour and I'm a first-time mother and I don't know what to expect,” MacDonald said. “No one even offers to help me go to the washroom or to show me where it is.”
MacDonald said she waited in that room, in pain, for about 13 hours, during which time nobody checked on her. She only got help, she said, after her mother went to find a nurse.
Wait until the government can really decide to screw up your hospital visit.
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