Electoral reform advocates known as the Longest Ballot Committee helped field the largest number of candidates in Canadian history for Monday’s byelection. But politicians are starting to look at ways to crack down on such protests.
Source: CBC News (Politics)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has added his voice to the list of politicians calling for the federal government to declare a gang based in India a terrorist organization in Canada.
The federal government’s repeated use of the Canada Labour Code to force picketing employees back to work has undermined its ability to end strikes while setting it up for a fight with Canada’s labour movement, union officials and experts say.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers presented new offers to Canada Post on Wednesday seeking higher wages while allowing for the addition of weekend delivery and part-time workers to the postal service.
An independent body says the raise is required to ensure that top private-sector lawyers keep applying for judicial appointments, but the federal government says the request has ‘no legal basis’ and ‘is insensitive to the current economic challenges of Canadians.’
The Trump administration slapped a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court with sanctions as the U.S. State Department unleashes a new wave of restrictions against judges it said had been instrumental in a past decision to investigate U.S. officials and in efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders.
The federal government has signed an agreement with a Canadian artificial intelligence company to identify areas where AI can enhance public service operations.
The proportion of Mounties on long-term, off-duty sick leave has reached an all-time high and become a critical issue for the national police force, according to a new outside report that’s already garnering visceral reaction from the RCMP’s union.
A Canadian veteran and his son are part of a small expedition paddling almost the entire length of the Ottawa River — a more than 1,000-kilometre odyssey that’s expected to take them five weeks.
In refusing an order to go back to work after the federal government invoked a hotly contested provision of the Canada Labour Code, labour advocates say Air Canada’s flight attendants sent a strong message about workers’ rights in Canada.
