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The Cyber Bill That Covers Banks but Not Hospitals: Inside the Senate Hearing on C-8
Bill C-8 would set Canada’s first cybersecurity standards for finance, telecom, energy and transport. Hospitals and municipal water, where a breach can…
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Ottawa Has a New Tool Against Election Lies. A Privacy Lawyer Isn’t Sure the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease.
Bill C-25 targets AI-generated disinformation and foreign funding loopholes in Canadian elections law. But a privacy lawyer told the committee the cure…
Jun 11
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Noose Was Not Up for Debate
The Senate spent three days arguing over how far Canada’s hate crime law should go. The chamber agreed on almost nothing, except one thing: the noose is…
Jun 10
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Soldier Canada Left in the Dust
Private Jess Larochelle held off a Taliban attack alone, with a broken back and a detached retina. Thirty-three years after Canada created its own…
Jun 9
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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A Thousand Metres of Silence
Canada's Transport Minister has drawn a new legal boundary around the endangered Southern Resident killer whale: 1,000 metres, 10 knots, and parts of…
Jun 8
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada Tried to Make It Rain 22 Times. Nothing Happened.
How a classified 1954 federal report from the Department of Transport admitted that Canada’s airborne cloud-seeding program, after two summers and…
Jun 7
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Whispering Campaign: How Rumour, Resistance, and Bureaucratic Delay Nearly Broke Canada’s Women’s Wartime Services
Canada mobilized over 45,000 women into uniform in WWII, yet a secret 1954 Army Headquarters report reveals they spent years fighting a second war…
Jun 6
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada's Metric War: How a 1984 Court Ruling Nearly Unravelled a Decade of Conversion
The Weights and Measures Act was law. Then a judge in Ontario said it violated the Charter, and suddenly the country that spent a decade switching to…
Jun 5
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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$10 Billion in Broken Promises
Three federal software disasters. One fired CEO with a $250,000 bonus. And 88,000 public servants still waiting to be paid correctly. Canada's…
Jun 4
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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She Was 23 Years Old. He Was Out on Bail. The Senate Just Passed the Bill That Came Too Late.
Bill C-14 passed the Senate with amendments its own sponsor opposed and a minister's admission the evidence was thin. Two women are dead. The bail…
Jun 3
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Netflix Just Got a 300% Tax Hike. Parliament Spent Thursday Screaming About It.
Canada's CRTC tripled the streaming levy on Netflix, Disney+, & Amazon to 15% of revenues. The fight that followed in the House was about something…
Jun 2
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada Closed Its Airspace to a Plague Ship. Here's the Emergency Order That Did It.
A rare hantavirus outbreak killed passengers aboard a Dutch cruise ship in April. By May 10, Canada's top transport official had signed an order banning…
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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