Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
Diaspora groups who help with the public inquiry into foreign interference will be protected from any negative consequences, commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue said Thursday. [Global]
The revenue from the carbon price itself is required by law to be returned to households and businesses through rebates and granting programs. [Global]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford took aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a rare attack during his first sit-down interview since winning re-election in June 2022. [Global]
France Belisle, elected mayor of Gatineau in 2021, has resigned her post effective immediately. At a news conference Thursday morning, she said she is stepping down to preserve her health. [Ottawa Citizen]
B.C.'s finance minister has unveiled this year's budget, which contains a new 'home-flipping tax' to target the profit made from selling a residential property within two years. [Global]
British Columbia Finance Minister Katrine Conroy has delivered an election-year budget that includes benefits for families and businesses as well as an increased deficit. Here are some of the highlights. [CP]
How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency in the largest region, Oromiya. [Reuters]
Riven by rivalries, political defections and ideological clashes, the alliance formed to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party’s juggernaut is in shambles, analysts say. [AP]
In a message to staff, CEO Bruce Dixon said that several hundred of Vice’s remaining 900 employees will soon be laid off in a restructuring that essentially kills off the editorial brand. [New York Magazine]
Google is at the center of a controversy around AI-generated images of people. The search giant is pausing this feature after it generated inaccurate historical images. [The Verge]
Numbers 8 through 10 may surprise you though. [ZDnet]
The Calendar
0900 ET: National Press Theatre - Inclusion Canada speaks to reporters.
0930 ET: St John's - Labour Min Seamus O'Regan and Rural Economic Development Min Gudie Hutchings make a funding announcement.
1000 ET: Québec City - BQ Leader Yves-François Blanchet speaks to reporters.
1000 ET: Laval, QC - Innovation Min François-Philippe Champagne , Health Min Mark Holland, Public Services Min Jean-Yves Duclos speak about a vaccine manufacturer.
1030 ET: Halifax - Diversity and Inclusion MIn Kamal Khera , Women and Gender Equality Min Marci Ien and LPC Min Andy Fillmore make a funding announcement.
1200 ET: Churchill, MB - Northern Affairs Min Dan Vandal and Premier Wab Kinew make a funding announcement.
1300 ET: Surrey, BC - LPC MP Yasir Naqvi makes a funding announcement.
1400 ET: Squamish, BC - PACIFICCan Min Harjit Sajjan and LPC MP Patrick Weiler will make a funding announcement.
1515 ET: Whitehorse - Indigenous Services Min Patty Hajdu makes a funding announcement.
2200 ET: Vancouver - Crown-Indigenous Affairs Min Gary Anandasangaree signs a Consultation Protocol with Kitselas First Nation.
Issued this day ...
… in 2012: Scott #2522. Art Canada: Joe Fafard. Design: Hélène L’Heureux.
One of three stamps issued this day to mark the work of Saskatchewan-born sculptor Joe Fafard (1942-2019). The Fafard piece on this stamp is “Smoothly She Shifted”, a piece created in 1986-87 that is now part of the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.