TORONTO – Canada Revenue Agency calls you if $10 is “missing” (and if you don’t pay immediately, interest will kick in) but doesn’t think it’s worth recovering $15 billion. Incredible but true, so much so that even the “watchdog” of Canadian finances, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux, said he was bewildered to hear the head of the CRA say that it was not “worth” recovering all that money, i.e. the $15.5 billion in potential Covid-19 wage subsidy overpayments. In other words, money ended up in the pockets of those who had no right to receive it. (more…)
TORONTO – Fr. Ralph Paonessa, who ministered for many years in parishes in the Archdiocese of Toronto, passed away.
Police is looking for a driver who walked away after fatal Highway 400 crash happened around 3am in the southband lanes near the exit for Rutherford Road in Vaughan.
OTTAWA – Canada is preparing to throw away more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine because it could not find any consumers either at home or abroad. Furthermore, it is not known how the millions more doses of Novavax and Medicago, that Canada has purchased, will be used. (more…)
OTTAWA – More doses of vaccine arrive in Canada, but at the same time others are thrown away. The situation of immunization in the country is on the verge of paradox. (more…)