After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called “performance pay” to managers when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday.
Source: CBC News (Politics)
When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his new cabinet this week, there were 15 fresh faces among the group. There were also 13 who had served in the previous cabinet of Justin Trudeau.
Newly named Foreign Minister Anita Anand accused Israel on Wednesday of using a lack of food as a political tool in its Gaza operation and urged further work on a ceasefire with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian enclave.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani has sent a letter to the federal government saying he’s concerned about the lack of a labour minister in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet at a time of economic friction with the United States.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly constituted cabinet met for the first time Wednesday on Parliament Hill as the government grapples with a whole host of challenges it will be charged with fixing.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians “weren’t impressed” when the U.K. decided to offer U.S. President Donald Trump an unprecedented second state visit while he was threatening Canada’s sovereignty.
The pontiff, who was elected in a conclave that ended last Thursday, will be officially installed as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics at a mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. A number of world leaders are expected to attend.
An MP from Northern Quebec is the first Indigenous person to hold the portfolio responsible for providing services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. Mandy Gull-Masty is one of three Indigenous MPs sworn into cabinet Tuesday.
Standing outside Rideau Hall on Tuesday, Mark Carney said his new cabinet — the first real cabinet of his time as prime minister — was “purpose-built for this hinge moment.” It was perhaps a more hopeful way of saying “crisis” — or an overlapping series of crises, like what the prime minister and his new cabinet now face.
The Bloc Québécois candidate for the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne says she’s evaluating her options after a judicial recount that saw her lose by a single vote.
