House won’t hold priority debate on MPs implicated in foreign interference report: Speaker

House won’t hold priority debate on MPs implicated in foreign interference report: Speaker

MPs will not hold a priority debate on how to release the names of politicians implicated in a foreign interference report released earlier this year. House Speaker Greg Fergus ruled Monday that the question of privilege raised by NDP MP Jenny Kwan in June didn’t rise to the level of a “prima facie” violation of MPs’ … Read more

The balance of power in Ottawa has shifted to the Bloc. So what does it want?

The balance of power in Ottawa has shifted to the Bloc. So what does it want?

When the NDP and Liberals signed the confidence and supply agreement in 2022, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the agreement caused the pendulum of power to swing so far in one direction that the interests of Quebec were not being served. Since NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh terminated that governance agreement, Blanchet said, the pendulum has swung even harder back in … Read more

Why John Krasinski’s Rogers ad is upsetting Canadian union actors mired in labour dispute

Why John Krasinski’s Rogers ad is upsetting Canadian union actors mired in labour dispute

The vice-president of Canada’s English language acting union isn’t happy seeing a Rogers ad featuring U.S. star John Krasinski letting loose to Taylor Swift in a boat on Lake Simcoe. “Every time I see that commercial, it makes my skin crawl,” said Keith Martin Gordey, who is also the president of the Union of British … Read more

Endangered butternut trees thriving in western Quebec forest, group says

Endangered butternut trees thriving in western Quebec forest, group says

Disease-resistant seedlings of an endangered tree species are doing well during their first season in a western Quebec forest, according to the conservation group that planted them. Butternut trees are native to Canada and can be found in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. But over the last 30 or so years, canker disease has wiped out … Read more

Cyber Attacks Are Inevitable — So Stop Preparing For If One Happens and Start Preparing For When One Will

Cyber Attacks Are Inevitable — So Stop Preparing For If One Happens and Start Preparing For When One Will

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2024, organizations faced an average of 1,308 cyber attacks per week in Q1, a 28% rise from the previous quarter and 5% year-over-year. And what’s even worrisome is that cybercrime losses reached $12.8 billion in 2023 and are expected to hit $23.84 trillion by 2027. Undoubtedly, … Read more

Hollywood’s video game actors vote to strike over AI protections

Hollywood’s video game actors vote to strike over AI protections

Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. The strike will begin at 12:01 a.m. PT Friday and comes after nearly two years of negotiations with gaming giants, … Read more

TC Energy’s $15B Keystone XL legal claim against U.S. government thrown out

TC Energy’s B Keystone XL legal claim against U.S. government thrown out

The nearly two-decade-long oil pipeline saga surrounding the failed Keystone XL pipeline is nearing an end, as Calgary-based TC Energy has lost its bid to recoup $15 billion from the U.S. government. The decision also raises doubts about whether the Alberta government will recover any of its losses as an investor in the project. TC Energy first … Read more

Air Canada ordered to pay couple $2,000 in compensation. Instead, it’s taking them to court

Air Canada ordered to pay couple ,000 in compensation. Instead, it’s taking them to court

Close to four years after they filed a complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), Andrew and Anna Dyczkowski finally got a resolution — in their favour. In November 2023, a CTA officer determined their 24-hour flight delay from Vancouver to Costa Rica in 2020 was Air Canada’s fault. The airline was ordered to compensate the couple … Read more

Pierre Poilievre disagrees with Conservative MP who wants to vote against same-sex marriage

Pierre Poilievre disagrees with Conservative MP who wants to vote against same-sex marriage

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he disagrees with a member of his caucus who says he wants to see more restrictions on abortion and would vote against same-sex marriage if there’s a future bill on the issue in Parliament. In an interview with Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who hosts a podcast called Uncommons, Alberta Conservative … Read more

Canadian farmers take precautions as bird flu outbreaks hit U.S. dairy cattle

Canadian farmers take precautions as bird flu outbreaks hit U.S. dairy cattle

The Dose19:04What’s going on with H5N1 bird flu? H5N1 is in the news again, and this time it has spread to cattle in several U.S. states. It has even infected a dairy worker in Texas. Global health epidemiologist Raywat Deonandan explains how avian flu is spreading, how transmissible it is, what vaccines are available, and … Read more