Ottawa to force banks to identify carbon rebate by name in direct deposits

financialpost.com OTTAWA — Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says…

Ottawa to force banks to use carbon rebate label for direct deposits

cbc.ca Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment…

Housing is many UK voters’ priority but rental system remains unfixed

theguardian.com Andy Leek’s escape to Argentina from Britain’s soaring rents is no doubt extreme. But the fact that this relatively successful artist feels he is better off paying…

Opinion: Canada risks going too far in overhauling competition law

theglobeandmail.com We’re living through a period of dramatic upheaval in Canada’s competition law. Significant changes were passed in 2022 and 2023, and even more important amendments have…

House conservatives have a special group dedicated to preserving their power. Of course, it's called the FART team

aol.com None House conservatives have organized a crack team to monitor to potential ways to undermine their power. • None Yes, they called it FART. The far-right House Freedom…

There's a conservative 'great migration' from blue states

businessinsider.com By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on…

This Is The Uniparty 'Reveal': Speaker Johnson To Pass $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Package Using Democrats

zerohedge.com This Is The Uniparty 'Reveal': Speaker Johnson To Pass $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Package Using Democrats House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is scrambling - both to keep his…

Conservatives corner Mike Johnson in House floor confrontation

axios.com In a tense conversation on the House floor on Thursday, a group of conservatives pressured Speaker Mike Johnson to back off potential plans to make it harder to remove House…

UK Tories face election meltdown

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Times of London, The Guardian, and Sky News The News Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is facing a complete collapse in the…

Mark Menzies: Tories investigate MP after 'bad people' cash claims

theweek.com The Conservative Party has withdrawn the whip from MP Mark Menzies while it investigates claims he misused donations from supporters. He is said to have called his…

Jan. 6 defendant accuses lawyer of "lying" to Supreme Court

newsweek.com A man charged in connection to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol accused a Department of Justice lawyer of lying to the Supreme Court during arguments in a case…

Mike Johnson strikes first in foreign aid fight that threatens his job

axios.com After 36 hours of agonizing inaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson has given Democrats a reason, and a timeline, to bail him out. Why it matters: A GOP-led Johnson ouster…

Sunak hopes of pre-election interest rate cuts frustrated by inflation slow puncture

theguardian.com When the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, told an event in Washington on Tuesday that the UK economy was “disinflating”, it raised the hopes of mortgage payers and…

There’s a gaping hole at the centre of the Tory party where ideas should be. The risk is Liz Truss will fill it

theguardian.com It would be charitable to ignore Liz Truss. Attention is her addiction and any dose, even laced with scorn, sustains the toxic belief that she has important things to say.…

Polling Shows How Massively Unpopular Scotland's 'Hate Crime' Law Is

zerohedge.com Polling Shows How Massively Unpopular Scotland's 'Hate Crime' Law Is Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A new YouGov poll has found that Scottish First Minister…

UK inflation falls to lowest level since late 2021 as food prices ease further

apnews.com Inflation in the U.K. fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in March after a further easing in food prices, official figures showed Wednesday. Consumer prices…

Nearly 1m UK pensioners living in deprivation, official figures show

theguardian.com Nearly 1 million people aged over 66 in the UK are living in deprivation, according to government statistics, the highest number since comparable records began. Labour,…

Liberals pledge $9B in new money for Indigenous communities in 2024 budget

cbc.ca The Trudeau government is promising $9 billion in new cash for Indigenous communities over the next five years, a smaller spend than some past budgets but one the government…

The “fake news”-ification of local news, and what to do about it

cjr.org The Letter from the Editor that ran on March 23, 2021 did not shrink from acknowledging the challenges the Bucks County Courier Times faces reaching conservative readers in…

Border Outranks Ukraine As Moderate Voter Priority In Swing States: Poll

zerohedge.com Border Outranks Ukraine As Moderate Voter Priority In Swing States: Poll Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An April survey of swing, or…

Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks

economist.com Trade unions rarely look to corporate raiders for inspiration. Yet the Strategic Organising Centre (SOC), a coalition of North American workers groups, is mounting the sort…

How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback

economist.com Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Ghent, in modern-day Belgium, was at the core of the burgeoning global wool…

Donald Trump told to ignore Judge Juan Merchan: "Call his bluff"

newsweek.com Conservatives urged former President Donald Trump to attend his son Barron Trump's graduation, regardless of whether Judge Juan Merchan says he can miss trial that day.…

On fake news, honey traps, and brutal cuts

cjr.org Last week, Joe Lycett, a comedian in the UK, posted a trailer for the new season of his late-night show. “The world’s been turned upside down by fake news, and I hate it,”…

The News Agents Muse On ‘Zombie’ Liz Truss’ Talk Of ‘Unfinished Business’ And Downing Street Memoir

mediaite.com The News Agents podcast hosts Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis mused on former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ “zombie” comeback tour on Monday, ahead of an LBC interview in which she…

Political ads could be heading to UK TV screens due to legal loophole

theguardian.com Some viewers are already irritated by the adverts interrupting shows on the ITV catch-up service. But even they could soon yearn for the halcyon days of shampoo or insurance…

The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies

zerohedge.com The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies Can Democrats take a hint? The answer is obviously no, but with millions of people…

Ontario minimum wage to increase to $17.20 an hour on Oct. 1

financialpost.com Ontario minimum wage to increase to $17.20 an hour on Oct. 1 Share this Story : Ontario minimum wage to increase to $17.20 an hour on Oct. 1 Boost of 3.9 per cent from the…

Ontario's budget deficit ballooning to $9.8B next year, almost double its projection

financialpost.com TORONTO — Ontario is delaying its path to balance as lethargic economic growth drags the province’s books further into the red, with a $9.8-billion budget deficit projected…

‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say experts

theguardian.com “People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg, an accountancy firm that specialises in advising very rich…

The Political Left Has Proven Beyond A Doubt That They Are Authoritarians

zerohedge.com The Political Left Has Proven Beyond A Doubt That They Are Authoritarians Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Nearly 20 years ago when I started my work in the…

Landmark Study Reveals 'Transgender' Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses

zerohedge.com Landmark Study Reveals 'Transgender' Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses Authored by Sara Parshaall Perry via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s been a…

Young Canadians turn away from Trudeau as housing affordability crisis bites

financialpost.com Prime Minister Justin Trudeau swept to power in 2015 with the help of younger Canadians captivated by his positive messaging and socially progressive views. That same group…

GOP lawmaker suggests God caused mass shooting because Maine expanded abortion access

msnbc.com A Republican lawmaker in Maine was censured by his colleagues after implying that the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history was punishment from God for a recently…

Liberals pledge to crack down on mortgage fraud, corporate ownership in latest housing announcement

theglobeandmail.com The federal Liberals capped off a run of pre-budget housing announcements with new pledges, including plans to crack down on mortgage and real estate fraud and to restrict…

UK takes another step on path out of recession as GDP rises

theguardian.com Britain’s economy has taken a step closer to exiting recession as official figures showed growth continued in February despite a washout month for construction and retail…

House GOP pauses infighting to move forward on key surveillance bill

axios.com A House bill aimed at reauthorizing FISA, the key surveillance bill, overcame a procedural hurdle on Friday after heated GOP infighting earlier this week. Why it matters:…

Is higher spending a magic bullet for UK defence?

theweek.com Labour would boost defence spending and the UK's nuclear deterrent programme, Keir Starmer has said amid mounting warnings about Britain's "eroded" Armed Forces. Defence is…

Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic defends job cuts in Commons committee testimony

cbc.ca As members of Parliament accuse Bell Canada of corporate greed, the head of the company is defending its decision to cut thousands of jobs, citing a shift in Canadians'…

Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

theguardian.com More than 30 years ago, the Sun published the infamous front page that was said to swing the 1992 general election in favour of the Conservatives. Beside an image of the…

“It’s past the trade deadline,” MAGA weary of kicking Johnson out

axios.com There's a lot of angst in Trumpworld right now about how to stop a motion to vacate effort waged by one of their own. Why it matters: As Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)…

Berkeley Students Disrupt Dinner At Law Dean’s Home; Accuse Law Professor of Assault

zerohedge.com Berkeley Students Disrupt Dinner At Law Dean’s Home; Accuse Law Professor of Assault Authored by Jonathan Turley, UC Berkeley’s law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, and his…

Steelworkers at the UK's largest production plant vote to strike over job losses

apnews.com Steelworkers at Britain's largest steel production plant voted to strike for the first time in around 40 years to protest the planned loss of 2,800 jobs by Indian owner Tata…

Boris Johnson calls Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban ‘absolutely nuts’

theguardian.com Boris Johnson has attacked Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban, calling it “absolutely nuts” in a lament about the state of the Conservative party in Britain. Speaking at an event in…

John Turley-Ewart: Police chiefs are right to worry about Ottawa's proposed cap on lending rates

financialpost.com Lesson one when regulating Canada’s financial system is ensuring the cure isn’t worse than the disease. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see…

John Turley-Ewart: Why opposing the RBC-HSBC merger is a bad look for the Conservatives

financialpost.com Selling a bank in Canada is a tricky thing, and has been since 1911 when, in the face of popular opposition to large numbers of bank mergers used to weed out weak banks, the…

House Conservatives Tank FISA Bill in Blow to Speaker Johnson

zerohedge.com House Conservatives Tank FISA Bill in Blow to Speaker Johnson By Joseph Lord of The Epoch Times House conservatives on April 10 tanked a procedural vote to advance a…

UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s

theguardian.com Ministers are considering banning the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 16 after a number of polls have shown significant public support for such a curb. The…

Joe Biden tells audience member to "shush up"

newsweek.com President Joe Biden told a heckler to "shush up" during a speech about the care economy on Tuesday. Biden delivered remarks about his administration's plans to improve the…

How Obama gave Trump the 'military-age males' talking point

reason.com Immigration hawks want you to believe that men are a threat by default. Figures like former President Donald Trump and current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R–La.)…

Bill Ackman provides a lesson in activist investing

economist.com As with every skirmish in America’s culture wars, how you view the ousting of Harvard University’s president has much to do with where you are sitting. Claudine Gay resigned…

The Tories let tax dodgers go unchecked. Labour won’t put up with it

theguardian.com This week the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced that Labour would act to tackle tax dodging. HMRC claims £36bn was lost to the exchequer last year simply because…

How will honeytrap scandal change Westminster?

theweek.com Westminster continues to reel from the so-called honeytrap scandal, with debate raging as to whether it's the work of a hostile foreign state or a political insider. Tory MP…

Mike Johnson looks to navigate spy powers fight ahead of GOP fireworks

axios.com With most eyes on whether he'll put Ukraine aid on the floor in the coming days, House Speaker Mike Johnson also faces a tough fight on reauthorizing Section 702 of the…

China Paid $250,000 To "Threat Actors" In Canada In 2018 And 2019

zerohedge.com China Paid $250,000 To "Threat Actors" In Canada In 2018 And 2019 A new document given to Canada's Foreign Interference Commission suggests that Chinese officials may have…

EV Ownership Ticks Up, but Fewer Nonowners Want to Buy One

news.gallup.com WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seven percent of Americans, up from 4% a year ago, report that they own an electric vehicle. That increase is matched by an equal decline in the…

Labour to launch £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close gap in spending plans

theguardian.com Rachel Reeves has said an incoming Labour government would launch a £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close a gap in its spending plans exposed by Jeremy Hunt scrapping the…