Wow. A new 'politicized' and 'sanitized' term for 'severe budget deficit spending' - "a new path to budget balance'. At least they could be half-truthful and include 'a new LONGER path to balanced budgets'.

We are not in a 'deficit budget' position. we are just in a 'new path to a balanced budget'.

The problem facing the Conservatives is as obvious as it is intractable — unless real change is made. The form of neoconservativism ushered in by Stephen Harper has morphed into angry authoritarianism under Pierre Poilievre. It will not sell in Canada and the electoral record proves it.

American food safety checks have nearly stopped now that the FDA has been cut so bad|y. They can't even follow up on investigating reports anymore.

Why are we importing and allowing dangerous foods to be sold here?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

Without the influence of Trump, we would likely now be instead contending with a Conservative majority government helmed by the party’s most right-wing leader ever.

In fact, the Conservatives made significant gains, despite failing to achieve the electoral outcome they desired. Across the country, the rightward drift is readily apparent, with Conservatives growing their seat count from 119 to 143 and their popular vote share from 33.7 to 41.3 per cent from 2021 to 2025. Moreover, the right secured growth as voter turnout rose by more than 6 percentage points.

MONTREAL — Canada Post employees could be headed to the picket line in just over two weeks, with an extension on existing deals between the Crown corporation and the union expiring on May 22.

A strike or lockout would mark the second time in under six months that the postal service ground to a halt after 55,000 employees walked off the job for 32 days in November and December.

The best thing that could happen to the world is for the Cardinals to out-do their previous record of three years to select a new Pope.

Imagine three years without a foreigner telling us what we should think, what we should believe, what we should do, how we should run our lives, how we should vote.

Maybe we will learn how to take back our own lives from the influence of foreign powers.

The political establishment has consistently failed to name the problem, let alone combat it. This election was no exception. Neither Conservative nor Liberal platforms deigned to use the word “inequality”.

Global inequality has reached a level unseen since World War I, and the parallels are frightening. International free trade was at historic highs in the decades leading up to that war when the top 1 per cent in the major world economies had accumulated so much wealth that ordinary people within those countries could no longer afford to buy the goods they were producing. This created a demand crisis and unleashed a wave of nationalistic tariffs to protect what remained of domestic markets. What started as a trade war between nationalistic elites to preserve profit, spiraled into a world war which claimed the lives of millions.

If you're still going down there for lunch / shopping, even more reasons to stop.

Hudson's Bay Co. has backtracked on its decision last month to cut commission pay earned by hundreds of cosmeticians and fragrance advisers during liquidation sales, CBC News has learned.

The retailer's sudden change of heart follows a grievance filed by its union, Unifor, which represents dozens of the workers, and CBC News coverage.

CBC reported two weeks ago that several cosmeticians and fragrance advisers (also knows as beauty advisers) said they were distraught over the loss of commission pay, as it would significantly reduce their take-home pay.

An Ontario couple says Air Canada failed to protect them and then blamed them after their flight was mysteriously cancelled and the credit used to buy a business class ticket to Tokyo — for someone they'd never met.

Bill and Sandra Barlow spent more than a year saving for their dream trip to South and Central America, which was a 75th birthday celebration for Bill.

But on Nov. 17, just two days before they were scheduled to fly home, they got an unsettling surprise when they called Air Canada to check on their return flights. Someone had cancelled them.

Even more baffling, they say the airline told them the theft was the couple's fault — claiming the couple's email had been hacked and that they had failed to secure their Air Canada Wallet, something they didn't even know they had.

Canadians, angered by U.S. tariffs and Trump administration talk of turning their country into a 51st state, really do appear to be boycotting the United States. Ticket sales for travel in summer, a crucial season for the industry, are down 21 percent compared with last year.

The decline in Canadian travelers, who make up roughly a quarter of all foreign visitors, is enough by itself to threaten tourism-oriented businesses in Florida, New York, Maine and other popular destinations.

Sometimes, however, the link between politics and personal travel decisions appears unmistakable. Since President Trump stepped up his hostility toward Canada, border crossings have plummeted.

Unlike air travel, land travel often isn’t planned months in advance, so changes reflect a change in sentiment more quickly. Crossings from Canada dropped sharply after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Canadians to “choose Canadian products and services rather than American ones” on Feb. 1.

Traffic at two of the busiest crossings, near Niagara Falls, fell 42 percent in March compared with 2024. And traffic at a busy crossing point between Vancouver and Seattle fell 48 percent.

It’s been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O’Soup and Chelsea Poorman.

But their families are no closer to any answers to explain how three young Indigenous people died in the Metro Vancouver area.

And in the case of Harrison, family members have discovered disturbing information that calls into question previous findings by the BC Coroners Service.

The Tyee has previously reported on concerns raised by (forensic pathologist Dr. Matthew) Orde and other pathologists about the overall quality of work being done by the BC Coroners Service. Coroners in the province are not required to have medical training.