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Canada's public service integrity watchdog says it's so overwhelmed with tips about wrongdoing, from mismanagement to violations of departmental codes of conduct, that it needs to double its budget just to keep up. Harriet Solloway, public sector integrity commissioner for just over a year, is warning the "crisis" could undermine her office's mandate — to investigate wrongdoing in the federal...
Federal officials pointed to concerns about "public scrutiny" when the government mandated workers back into the office, even as workers reported they felt more productive working from home, documents show. Documents prepared by the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) before the announcements of return to the office mandates were released to the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) under an access...
A Russian antiwar activist living in Ottawa has been granted Canadian citizenship after all, despite a conviction in Russia that threatened to disqualify her. Maria Kartasheva, 30, has lived in Ottawa since 2019. She was convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the full-scale invasion in of Ukraine in February 2022. The law prohibits "public dissemination of deliberately false...
A critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn't a crime in Canada to criticize the Russian army. Maria Kartasheva, who has lived in Ottawa since 2019, has been convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the invasion of Ukraine which bars "public dissemination...
Representatives from Canada Life apologized at a House of Commons committee studying its rocky transition becoming the administrator of the country's largest health-care plan. Around 1.7 million federal workers, retirees and their dependents saw their saw their insurance provider switch from Sun Life to Canada Life this past summer. At the same time, there were changes to which services and...