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Residents of some of the North Shore’s most exclusive neighbourhoods may have some ’splaining to the taxman to do if their reported income does not appear to support their affluent lifestyles.
The Canada Revenue Agency’s Postal Code Project is targeting five wealthy neighbourhoods across the country – including one in the Lower Mainland – to start taking a closer look at residents’ tax filings.
Read more at North Shore News
FREDERICTON — Three years after a troubled Cape Breton man died after being hit repeatedly with pepper spray in prison, two correctional officers have been charged with manslaughter.
RCMP had originally said foul play was not suspected in Matthew Hines’s death, but the charges come after Canada’s correctional investigator found prison staff used unnecessary force.
Read more at National Post
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau, who came into office vowing to set the gold standard for transparency and ethical behaviour, became Wednesday the first prime minister found to have violated federal conflict of interest rules.
Read more at The Chronicle Herald
Ontario’s top court has ordered a new trial for a retired pediatrician found guilty of sexually assaulting two female patients when they were children.
But Arturo Sanchez’s age and health will likely play a role into whether or not he ever faces a judge again.
Read more at Toronto Star
For every dollar corporations pay to the Canadian government in income tax, people pay $3.50. The proportion of the public budget funded by personal income taxes has never been greater.
At a time when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made tax fairness a centrepiece of his government, the Toronto Star and Corporate Knights magazine spent six months poring over tax data to determine how much income tax corporations are really paying.
Read more at Toronto Star
There are conspiracy theories that really makes one question the collective sanity of the public.
For example, there is a current theory that suggest that lizard-people govern the United States (a stunning 4 percent of the U.S. population actually believe this one).
There’s another conspiracy theory that the U.S government controls people’s thoughts with television programing — an even more stunning 15 percent believe this theory.
Read more at The Creightonian
New rules introduced in September aimed at limiting the use of torture-tainted information by Canadian law enforcement and spies expanded Thursday to include the military, the foreign service, and the country’s foreign signals intelligence agency.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale issued a ministerial directive in September to the RCMP, the CBSA and CSIS that limited but did not forbid the use of information likely derived from torture.
Read more at Global News
Overcrowding at Ontario hospitals has become so serious that the sector is “on the brink” of a “crisis,” warns its umbrella organization, using uncharacteristically alarming language.
Leaders from the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) plan to go to Queen’s Park to plead their case for more funding on Thursday. They are seeking a 4.55 per cent increase in operating funding for 2018-19, according to their prebudget submission, an advanced copy of which has been obtained by the Star.
Read more at Toronto Star
The Ontario government has secretly settled hundreds of lawsuits alleging historic sexual, physical and emotional abuse by teachers and staff at provincially run schools for troubled youth, a Star investigation has found.
Staff and teachers were accused of sodomizing students, forcing them to perform oral sex, and pushing them to engage in “scrambles,” a sort of fight club where students were encouraged to beat one another.
Read more at Toronto Star
A Safeway pharmacist has been arrested on dozens of drug and theft charges after more than 33,000 tablets of narcotics went missing from the pharmacy where she worked in Okotoks, Alta., over a period of five years.
Police allege Leanne Rogalsky, 52, created fake patient records and then used fake prescriptions under those patients’ names to take the narcotics from the pharmacy.
Read more at CBC News