There's been a lot of political debate over the future of Old Age Security over the past 10 days. So we've asked David Gray, a professor in the Economics Department at the University of Ottawa, and Monica Townson, a pension expert and research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to help us cut through the spin.
The federal government is shutting the Canadian consulate in Buffalo less than two years after costly renovations, while dropping a requirement for visas to be renewed outside the country, CBC News has learned.
The federal government is raising to $1 billion the amount of foreign money that can go into a Canadian company before the investment is reviewed. The review has been used in the past to block foreign takeovers of MDA and Potash Corp.
The Conservative Party has filed a second motion to dismiss the robocalls lawsuits filed by the left-leaning Council of Canadians, calling council chairperson Maude Barlow a "virulent critic" of Prime Minister Stephen Harper who has "orchestrated" the litigation.
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