iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 15, 2021 6:30am Employment minister Carla Qualtrough appears at committee today. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
HUMAN RESOURCES members, who will also hear from representatives of the
Canadian Federation of Business and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. (3:30 – 5:30 PM)
Over at
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS,
Auditor General Karen Hogan and her team will brief MPs on her review of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), which was included in her most recent report to Parliament. Also on the witness list:
Canada Revenue Agency commissioner Bob Hamilton and a full contingent of senior officials, including
Graham Flack and
Meanwhile, the
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CANADA-U.S. ECONOMIC RELATIONS returns to its ongoing study into the potential impact that the new occupants of the White House might have on cross-border trade dynamics during panel discussions with
At committee: Employment insurance, pandemic emergency benefit plan and cross-border economic relations
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The provincial government wants to know what Ontario residents think about giving judges the power to turf troublesome city councillors from office.
The government launched a survey on Wednesday after announcing a public consultation last month in response to calls for changes to how municipal councillors and mayors are held to account.
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The announcement followed an integrity investigation into College Coun. Rick Chiarelli and allegations of his lewd behaviour toward women who worked in his office and women whom he interviewed for jobs. Council unanimously voted to apply the maximum penalty available under provincial law: a 90-day salary suspension for each formal complaint. Applied as consecutive penalties, the total salary suspension is 450 days and it started on Aug. 14, 2020.
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Their tireless efforts built the Sudbury we know today. Elected officials who represented us in years and decades past are unwilling to let the legacy we entrusted them to build go down without a fight.
Monday’s announced layoffs at Laurentian crossed a wide swath of courses and concentrations. Specializations and Sudbury-specific programs – like those that dealt with environmental reclamation – plus classes in humanities, mathematics, and even such valuable suites of studies in midwifery; all were declared surplus to what the administration sees as the institution’s new direction.
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Grey County and the M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre are vowing to strengthen their relationship and continue working together on ways to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people living off-reserve in the area.
County council, meeting recently as a committee of the whole, endorsed a declaration of mutual commitment and friendship with the Owen Sound-based centre that both county and M’Wikwedong officials say is in the spirit of truth and reconciliation.
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“We have already a very good relationship with M’Wikwedong, but we were looking to formalize that with this resolution, which is to be formalized by our council next week,” Grey County Warden Selwyn Hicks said.
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