The federal government claims its austerity measures are virtually costless. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have cut back spending to a degree rarely seen in this country. Between 2010 and the next election, the government predicts, it will have slashed direct spending by $45 billion…
A Federal Court judge has ruled the humpback whale population off the B.C. coast is one of four threatened or endangered species that the Conservative government has failed to protect, as required by law.
