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4 days ago | 
castanet.net | Kyle Duggan |Catherine Morrison |Dylan Robertson |Allison Jones
A top federal official said fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion — and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued system. Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the alternative to running the Phoenix system in tandem with its replacement, Dayforce, would have been worse.
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1 week ago | 
castanet.net | Liam Casey |Allison Jones |Craig Lord |Sarah Ritchie
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has apologized for saying First Nations should not keep coming "hat in hand" to the government if they say no to mining projects, a comment many First Nation leaders called racist. Ford delivered that apology in a meeting at Queen's Park to several dozen chiefs who are part of the Anishinabek Nation.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | David Baxter |Kelly Malone |Craig Lord |Allison Jones
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he "welcomes" the decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down President Donald Trump's broad-based tariffs on most countries. On Wednesday, court ruled that Trump does not have the authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, usually referred to by the acronym IEEPA. The decision blocked both the "Liberation Day" duties and the fentanyl-related tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Cassandra Szklarski |Allison Jones |Liam Casey
The Canadian Press - | Story: 552819Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 of its workers are set to head back to the bargaining table this week as an overtime ban remains in effect. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the Crown corporation has proposed continuing talks on Wednesday. It says Canada Post plans to respond to proposals the union presented on Sunday. The union had been in a strike position starting Friday but opted instead for an overtime ban.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
The Canadian Press - | Story: 552067A senior Environment Canada meteorologist says that as the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start, experts are predicting another active year. But Bob Robichaud at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax says the impact on Canada is impossible to forecast because there's no telling where these tropical storms will go once they form over the ocean.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
Texts sent by a former member of Canada's world junior hockey team cannot currently be admitted at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates, an Ontario judge ruled Friday, prompting prosecutors to seek a different route to introduce the messages as evidence. Brett Howden faced questions Thursday in a voir dire — essentially a trial within a trial — over a text conversation he had with another then-teammate, Taylor Raddysh, on June 26, 2018.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
At least six members of Parliament are asking their colleagues to support their bid to become the next Speaker of the House of Commons, including the last man to hold that job, Greg Fergus. Former deputy Speaker Chris d'Entremont and fellow Conservative MP Tom Kmiec have also sent emails to MPs asking for their support.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Hundreds of Canadians could potentially be caught up in the fight between President Donald Trump and prestigious Harvard University over international student enrollment. The school did not immediately have a current count of Canadians studying there, but numbers on its website from 2022 show there were 686 enrolled at that time.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press - | Story: 552034The Canada Revenue Agency is cutting up to 280 permanent employees in response to fiscal constraints. The workforce changes will impact branches across the CRA but the reductions will mainly impact employees in the National Capital Region. Commissioner Bob Hamilton and deputy commissioner Jean-François Fortin say in a message to staff today that executive positions are also being impacted by the reductions.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Brittany Hobson |Catherine Morrison |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Cottage owners and disaster prevention experts in Manitoba are urging governments to develop comprehensive wildfire management plans after a pair of devastating wildfires. Close to 1,000 people were forced from their homes last week as a wildfire near the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet, spurred by dry, hot and windy conditions, burned nearby. The quick-moving fire, which is currently being held, destroyed 28 homes and cottages and left two people dead.
