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Food Banks Canada has called for federal help as it warned today that working families are increasingly relying on donations of food to survive. The charity said Employment Insurance must be reformed to cope with the new reality of life in Canada, explaining: “The underlying system has not been fully modernized for decades ... EI was built at a time when full-time employment was the norm." The benefit should pay a minimum of $450 a week, the group said, and people who are unable to find a new job when their EI expires should be granted extended benefits.
Two-parent families, full-time workers among those in need of food banks: report https://t.co/2KufryvhHZ
— AM800 CKLW (@AM800CKLW) June 1, 2026
Alberta is looking at three different oil pipeline routes through northern British Columbia, documents revealed by CBC News reveal. The potential routes include Observatory Inlet, Nasoga Gulf, Kitimat and Prince Rupert as their final destinations, while one follows the route of the previously rejected Northern Gateway project.
CBC showed me the planned routes and ports. My impression was 1) the options are heavy on Nisga’a options, which makes me think engagements have been positive with them 2) new northern routes avoid Wet’suwet’en territory which is what plagued Coastal Gas Link construction.… pic.twitter.com/sRc3bvYl4t
— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) June 1, 2026
Data collected by electric vehicles could be used by hostile states to track people and carry out surveillance, Public Safety Canada has warned in an internal memo. The document, written about Chinese vehicles that the Liberal government has allowed into Canada as part of a deal with Beijing, warns Canadians to be vigilant when it comes to their security. The note adds: “Opening our markets to new players can amplify the presence of high-risk vendors ... unauthorized access to data and connected vehicle systems could be used to establish patterns of life or conduct surveillance on sensitive sites.”
Connected vehicle data 'can have intelligence value' to adversaries: federal document https://t.co/hhF8tpYdaQ pic.twitter.com/Ts12iFP0Am
— CP24 (@CP24) June 1, 2026
The prime minister of Sweden has joined other European leaders in joking about Canada joining the European Union. Ulf Kristersson said Canada was “the most Nordic country in the world outside the Nordics," adding: "It’s not for me to say, but the European Union is a very welcoming club for (the) like-minded.”
"European Union is obviously a matter of geography...but it is also a matter of values," said Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson about the prospect of Canada joining the trading bloc. "Its not for me to say, but the European Union is a very welcoming club for like-minded." pic.twitter.com/gq1xEzYEiZ
— CTV Question Period (@ctvqp) May 31, 2026
It took them half a decade, but one of Canada's best-known newspapers has finally applied journalistic principles to one of the most contentious events in recent Canadian history. In a much-discussed editorial, the Toronto outlet uttered a basic fact that has been ignored by most of the Canadian press: "Five years after the startling announcement that there were hundreds of possible unmarked graves near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains ... That is an extraordinary assertion, one that requires proof." The claim in 2021 that 215 graves had been found at a former residential school in Kamloops has gone mostly unchallenged by the Canadian media, despite a near-total lack of evidence. The New York Times, however, questioned the story in 2024, while media in other countries, including the UK, questioned it much earlier.
Wow. The editorial board of the Globe & Mail just flat out admitted that it screwed up by failing to scrutinize the false 2021 claims that “unmarked graves” had been “confirmed” at Kamloops. It’s taken five years, which is a disgrace, but give them credit for finally saying it https://t.co/DJdPpZrt5F pic.twitter.com/fa7YDmX2bm
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) May 30, 2026
