Episode 365
Not the Beaverton
It's Spring Break for teachers and the BC Leg. Ottawa is a silly place.
PolitiCoast · Ian Bushfield, Scott de Lange Boom
March 16, 202443m 45s
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Show Notes
The BC Legislature is on break for two weeks, so we look back at the bills the government has passed and introduced so far. Then in Ottawa, things aren't going great as we're losing count of how many civil servants are moonlighting as government contractors.
Links
- Progress of Bills this session
- B.C. takes action to hold companies accountable for hurting people | BC Gov News
- Rob Shaw: BC ready to get tough on tech titans with sweeping legislation
- Commercial truck drivers to face higher penalties for hitting overpasses | BC Gov News
- Introduction of Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act | BC Gov News
- Transit-oriented area manual updated for local governments, development sector | BC Gov News
- GC Strategies partner pleads ignorance while being questioned by MPs looking into ArriveCan | CBC News
- Auditor general's office discovers three of its own employees earning side money off undisclosed government contracts
- DND and military personnel OK to have side contracts with federal government
- Gen. Wayne Eyre's speech advocating for openness on defence issues is now secret
- Senior business leaders support proposal asking pension funds to invest more in Canada - The Globe and Mail
- Finance ministers signal desire for Canada’s pension funds to invest more at home as CEOs lobby for change - The Globe and Mail
- Pension funds are Canada’s ‘crown jewels.’ Should they invest more at home? - National | Globalnews.ca
- 2023 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet