Kevin Philipupillai

Plus, the House Health Committee holds hearings on the opioid crisis and on a failed COVID-19 vaccine contract.

Tzeporah Berman from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative says there is significant momentum behind the call to phase out fossil fuels, but that she is watching out for wording that would dilute that commitment if it makes it into the final text of COP28.

Woodhouse was the AFN's lead negotiator for an unprecedented $23-billion child welfare settlement agreement with the federal government.

Plus, House Speaker Greg Fergus will appear before the House Affairs Committee to answer questions about his appearance at an Ontario Liberal Party convention.

The federal government can transfer the lump sum to third-party administrators as early as February 2024, with cheques going out to some First Nations children and families in late summer or fall.

Bloc, NDP, and Green MPs who voted with the Conservatives in March will have to take a second look at Bill C-234 now that the Senate has sent it back with significant cuts.

Plus, two frigates return from a four-month deployment in the Indo-Pacific region, and the Finance Department launches its pre-budget consultations.

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Starlight Investments are moving to evict up to 100 tenants who have been withholding payments in protest against proposed rent increases.

Persons with Disabilities Minister Kamal Khera will need support at the cabinet table to push for a new multi-billion-dollar social program at a time when the finance minister has spoken of the need for fiscal restraint, say disability and poverty experts.

‘People with disabilities were led to believe this program would lift them out of poverty,' says social policy expert John Stapleton, but none believed the Liberals would go ‘so low' with the monthly benefit amount.