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OTTAWA – The NDP is asking the auditor general to look into the Canada Revenue Agency’s ability to investigate large corporations and potential offshore tax evaders after recent data showed a stark drop in those audits in the four years leading up to the pandemic.
“More than five years after the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers scandals, the lack of results casts serious doubt on the CRA’s ability to be fair to all taxpayers and reinforces a sense of injustice to hard-working individuals and small and medium-sized businesses who work hard to pay their fair share,” reads the letter sent by NDP MP Matthew Green to the auditor general late last week.
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Pandemic related bylaw enforcement is about to be stepped-up in Northern Manitoba First Nation communities.
The Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), Manitoba RCMP, and Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) are rolling out a new protocol that will help RCMP officers enforce local COVID-19 bylaws enacted by First Nation communities in Northern Manitoba, and for PPSC to carry out prosecution of bylaw offences related to s. 81 and 85.1 of the Indian Act.
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In a statement on Tuesday, the MKO said all police agencies have a role to play when it comes to enforcing Indigenous laws. They said the protocol is based on the common goal of safe communities and respect, adding RCMP engagement in Northern communities is meant to improve the relationship between police and Indigenous communities.
The MKO, the Manitoba RCMP and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) have worked together to develop a protocol that will help officers enforce the local COVID-19 bylaws enacted by First Nation communities in Northern Manitoba.
RCMP officers will be able to help Northern Manitoba First Nations enforce their own bylaws, including public health measures related to COVID-19, now that a protocol on the practice has been . . .
Posted: May 10, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 10
The first degree murder and robbery trial of James Thomas continues in N.W.T. Supreme Court in Yellowknife. On Friday, co-accused Levi Cayen recanted much of what he said in an earlier statement to police, testifying he acted alone.(Walter Strong/CBC)
Days after a 25-year-old man was found beaten and frozen in a car near Hay River, Northwest Territories, a tearful Levi Cayen confessed to police that he and his cousin, James Thomas, had beaten the man and left him in the car, bloodied and dazed, that frigid winter night.
In court on Friday, Cayen said it was all a lie.