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Senate's top spender defends long list of contracts for outside consultants
A non-affiliated senator from Manitoba is the biggest spender in the Red Chamber but she defends her expenses by saying shes an active parliamentarian who needs a lot of help and wants to pay her consultants fairly.
CBC InvestigatesDevelopers who own ex-Greenbelt land also benefited from province's order to expand Hamilton urban boundary
The same day the province announced its plans to remove three Hamilton sites from the Greenbelt, it also opened up an additional 2,200 hectares of local countryside for development, including land owned by developers Sergio Manchia and Paul Paletta.
Mass journalism layoffs don't just mean a gap in news coverage. Experts worry they'll hurt democracy too
Metroland has laid off hundreds of people including dozens of journalists who covered local issues. Experts say less eyes and ears on the ground means residents may not get the accurate information they need.