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  1. Ron in Regina

    13&1/2% or 47%? Depends who you ask…

    Two PSAC groups are striking: a larger Treasury Board group of more than 120,000 workers across several government departments and agencies, and a smaller tax group of more than 35,000 workers at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). About 110,000 to 120,000 PSAC members were eligible to walk off...
  2. Ron in Regina

    Ottawa gives final approval for Rogers $26B purchase of Shaw

    Rogers’ hiring of former industry minister Navdeep Bains — who headed the telecom file for the Liberal government until 2021 — is “incredibly concerning,” the NDP said. http://apple.news/Aebu-J-pFRpadB7NmZ7YnJQ “Canadians have questions – they want to ensure Rogers now has no easy access to...
  3. Ron in Regina

    13&1/2% or 47%? Depends who you ask…

    Negotiations between the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE) are currently at a standstill, according to the union’s national president Marc Brière, who says the government fails to address key issues including wages and telework. Brière said the parties have...
  4. Ron in Regina

    13&1/2% or 47%? Depends who you ask…

    More than 155,000 federal public servants spent a second consecutive day on picket lines across the country Thursday as union leaders and government officials said they continued to hold discussions in an effort to reach an agreement and bring the strike to an end, etc… The labour leader...
  5. Ron in Regina

    April Fools!! Here's your Carbon Tax F#ckers!!!

    Call it another example of government know-how. Or more accurately, know-not. That’s because if you live in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba or Saskatchewan and your 2022 income tax return wasn’t filed and assessed by the Canada Revenue Agency by March 24, you will not receive your quarterly climate...
  6. Ron in Regina

    13&1/2% or 47%? Depends who you ask…

    Well, here we are, and they’re on Strike. 155,000 of them. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who joined striking workers on the picket lines Wednesday morning on Parliament Hill, reiterated his stance that his party would play no part in supporting any potential back-to-work legislation. There’s the...
  7. Ron in Regina

    WE really need to get rid of this guy

    OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has probably visited a longtime family friend’s luxurious estate in Jamaica “dozens and dozens of times” in past decades, but his most recent trip during the winter holiday period was the only time he went there as prime minister. “Throughout the...
  8. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    OTTAWA -- The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment. Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner's office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top...
  9. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    https://apple.news/AoJHhxcFLS_qeuyzJ_7_FCw
  10. Ron in Regina

    WE really need to get rid of this guy

    As Andrew Coyne memorably said: They‘re just trolling us, now. The Trudeau Liberals, that is. “Trolling,” generally, is Internet slang for a person who intentionally tries to instigate conflict, hostility, or arguments with someone else. In this case, specifically, it’s Justin Trudeau...
  11. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    Holy Cow! Sounds like Mr. Trudeau has found a back-up Reportierrrierrerr….just in case they need another independent lookiloo to investigate something Justin doesn’t want investigated:
  12. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    The choice of venue for grocery store in Regina makes sense now. If his plane overshot the runway, he could’ve wound up inside the grocery store anyway. Quick in. Quick out. Sayonara Bitches!!
  13. Ron in Regina

    Black Lives Matter-Ugliness of Racism.

    Yep, anyway: http://apple.news/A9vFFtVfsQOy944qd3OhPiA
  14. Ron in Regina

    Should the CBC stop being funded by the gov't?

    What is the CBC “independent” of?
  15. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    Opposition leaders slammed what they called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "lack of judgment" Tuesday after it was revealed he spent his Christmas vacation at the Jamaica home of a wealthy donor to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, which he has no intersection with…...
  16. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    Isn’t that what we voted for?
  17. Ron in Regina

    Black Lives Matter-Ugliness of Racism.

    Meh, I just ignore it. Isn’t that what you’re suppose to do?
  18. Ron in Regina

    Rapporteur David Johnson, Eminent Canadian

    Surprise – An attempt by the Conservatives to have a parliamentary committee undertake a study aimed at “getting to the bottom of dishonest conduct and attempted foreign interference” of the Trudeau Foundation was voted down by the Liberals and the NDP on Monday. Conservative MP Garnett Genuis...