The Biden administration on Friday released its budgetary data for the last month of fiscal year 2022 which showed the U.S. government ran up a roughly $1.4 trillion deficit. That is an average of nearly $120 billion in added debt every month. Federal debt surpassed $31 trillion earlier this month. The federal debt topped $30…
Federal Deficit Topped $1.4 Trillion in Fiscal Year 2022, Nearly 50 Percent Above Pre-Covid Level
Sacrificing Energy Security on the Altar of Sustainability
Commentary The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have been weaponizing the federal government against their political adversaries since January 2021. Perhaps they seek to turn the U.S. federal bureaucracy into the mirror image of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing that controls every aspect of Chinese society—and one that brooks no political dissent…
Arizona Man Charged After Girls Found in Enclosed Trailer
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—A leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah line pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of tampering with evidence, weeks after being stopped on a highway with young girls in an enclosed trailer. Samuel Bateman, 46, was indicted earlier this month on three counts of destroying or attempting to destroy records,…
Feds Cut Funding for Anti-Racism Project Over ‘Reprehensible and Vile’ Tweets
Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has cut funding to an anti-racism project over “reprehensible and vile” tweets by a senior consultant involved in the strategy. Hussen says the project helmed by the Community Media Advocacy Centre—which received $133,000 from the Heritage Department—has been suspended. The move follows reporting by The Canadian Press on…
New Federal Electoral Districts Proposed in Ontario Would Cut Seats in Toronto, North
The commission responsible for redrawing Ontario’s federal electoral map is proposing an overhaul to account for changes in where people live. Under the proposal, Toronto and northern Ontario would lose one riding each, with new districts created in the eastern and northern Greater Toronto Area, central Ontario, along with the Guelph and Brampton areas. The…
LIVE 11 AM ET: Why Has a Federal Prosecutor Been Given Power of Life and Death Over Jan. 6 Defendants?
Matthew Graves is the Department of Justice lawyer who has denied Trump supporters their constitutional rights and subjected them to cruel and unusual punishment, including torture and illegal detention. And yet almost no one knows the name of the man who has shredded our legal system to exercise revenge on behalf of the ruling establishment….
Federal Government Now Posting Passport Wait Times Online as Long Lineups Continue
Passport offices are still dealing with a surge of applications, the minister responsible says, and wait times are “far from acceptable.” Karina Gould says those long wait times are her top priority, but she cannot say when things may return to normal. The federal government says 72 percent of Canadians who apply for a passport…
Crown Drops Case Against Federal Public Servant in Shipbuilding Leak Trial
The failed prosecution of vice-admiral Mark Norman loomed large on Thursday as a second federal official accused of leaking cabinet secrets about a $700-million shipbuilding contract walked out of an Ottawa courthouse a free man. More than three years after RCMP charged him with breach of trust, the Crown announced it was dropping its case…
Trial Set to Start for Federal Public Servant Charged in Shipbuilding Leak Case
The trial of a federal public servant accused of leaking cabinet secrets about a shipbuilding project is set to begin this morning. Matthew Matchett was charged with one count of breach of trust in February 2019 for allegedly leaking secret cabinet documents about a contract between the federal government and Chantier Davie shipyard in Quebec…
Halifax Shipyard Warns Warship Schedule Contingent on More Federal Funding
The company responsible for building Canada’s next fleet of warships says it remains on schedule to cut steel in two years—as long as Ottawa gives it more cash to upgrade its Halifax shipyard. Irving Shipbuilding president Kevin Mooney says the shipyard needs several upgrades that were not originally anticipated when the company was selected to…
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