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Bill C-14’s tougher penalties for copper theft took effect July 15 — but the 993 thefts Bell reported in H1 2026 all happened before the law existed, and the bill targeting scrap-yard resale remains stalled.

Ottawa’s contracts with an Iran ex-VP’s son despite CSIS flags match a screening gap the Auditor General documented in federal contracts two years earlier.

Two months after Alberta merged health numbers and citizenship markers onto driver’s licences, the privacy commissioner’s fraud warning remains unaddressed.

Ottawa’s new $150 disability benefit top-up starts Sept. 1 to offset DTC costs — but the law capping those same fees has sat frozen in court since 2021.

As the five-year Disaggregated Data Action Plan concludes and Budget 2025 flags Statistics Canada for a 15% cut, neither the agency nor Finance Canada will specify what happens to the program built to measure anti-Black and anti-Indigenous disparities.

The $150 CDB top-up covers Disability Tax Credit fees, but a federal ombudsperson found CRA approval waits run nearly double its own standard.

Carney’s Liberals swept three byelections Monday, but the real story is a Senate appointment and floor crossings that built this majority — and what it means for Poilievre.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked Canada’s naval capacity by invoking West Edmonton Mall’s tourist submarines — a ride that closed in 2005 and was scrapped in 2012, well before the current trade fight began.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has paused the province’s new cash bail deposit rules Monday, ruling the CCLA and Criminal Lawyers’ Association raised serious constitutional questions worth a full hearing.

Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ can’t touch the 1909 treaty governing it, or erase a name centuries older than either country.