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on September 21, 2016 in World News

Federal Liberals spending millions on overtime for communications staff, documents reveal

By Jason Fekete, Ottawa Citizen The federal government is spending millions of dollars on overtime for communications staff as it looks to get out its messaging to Canadians, with the largest tabs in the departments of Environment, Finance, Global Affairs, Defence, and the Privy Council Office. The government also has seven staffers in the Privy Council Office who spend part of their work duties producing videos for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s YouTube channel at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars, according to new documents tabled in the House of Commons. Between early November 2015 and early June...

By Jason Fekete, Ottawa Citizen The federal government is spending millions of dollars on overtime for communications staff as it looks to get out its messaging to Canadians, with the largest tabs in the departments of Environment, Finance, Global...

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on May 23, 2015 in World News

EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal

by Arthur Nelsen EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal US trade officials pushed EU to shelve action on endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility to facilitate TTIP free trade deal EU moves to regulate hormone-damaging chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility were shelved following pressure from US trade officials over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal, newly released documents show. Draft EU criteria could have banned 31 pesticides containing endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). But these were dumped amid fears of a trade backlash stoked by an aggressive… View Article

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