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The federal government is using $1.8 billion in surplus EI funds to help balance its books, drawing criticism from opposition parties and labour groups who say the money belongs in taxpayers’ pockets. Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivered Tuesday the Tories’ long-promised balanced budget ahead of this year’s federal election — though it was one that eked out a very small surplus of $1.4 billion. To get there despite a $6 billion decline in revenues due to falling oil prices, the government had to take $2 billion out of its $3 billion contingency fund and dip into the country’s EI fund. "This government is raiding the EI fund to pay for its other priorities, even though less than 40 per cent of unemployed Canadians qualify for EI,” said Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, the country’s biggest union. “With tens of thousands of Canadians losing their jobs, this is the time to fix EI – not raid the cookie jar." At the same time, the Conservative government — which panned...

OTTAWA - The Harper government has made a commitment to extend Canada's participation in the International Space Station mission for another four years — until 2024. The announcement was included in Tuesday's federal budget. The United States and Russia have already announced their continued support until 2024. But the space station's other key partners, the European Space Agency and JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, have not yet committed themselves beyond 2020. The federal budget also provides an additional $30 million over four years, starting in 2016–17, to support cutting-edge research and technology development in Canada’s satellite communications sector. Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, which represents over 700 of Canada's aerospace companies, praised the budget for providing what it called essential funding for the Canadian Space Agency. President Jim Quick says in a statement that the measures are another step as the association con...

TORONTO - Ontario's Liberals were quick to express disappointment Tuesday at the federal budget, saying the money Ottawa is promising for transit projects amounts to "crumbs" compared to the needs of Canada's largest province. "When it comes to transit, they've kind of missed the train, and they're not even in the station," Finance Minister Charles Sousa said shortly after his federal counterpart introduced the budget in the House of Commons. The federal budget promises a new infrastructure fund that allocates $750 million over two years, followed by $1 billion a year "ongoing thereafter." "The amount that's being brought forward, frankly, is only crumbs of what we need," Sousa said. The Liberal government has pledged to spend $130 billion on infrastructure over 10 years, $31 billion of which will go toward transit infrastructure. The province has been calling on the federal Conservatives to match its infrastructure inves...

A dramatic rock slide on the Stawamus Chief Mountain shook Squamish, B.C. on Sunday. Kirsten Andrews watched the slide unfold from her home a few kilometres away and posted a video to Facebook . "Never heard anything like this before," she wrote. "A huge chunk of The Chief just came down in front of our place. That was completely terrifying if I'm honest." RCMP estimated a slab about 1,000 cubic metres in size fell off the granite monolith about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver around noon. Never heard anything like this before. A huge chunk of The Chief just came down in front of our place. That was... Posted by Kirsten Andrews on Sunday, April 19, 2015 The Chief is a popular hiking and rock-climbing site. The slide occurred in the North Walls area of the north peak near a climbing route. "This particular area is really only for highly skilled rock climbers , not your more tourist-orientated climbs," Mayor Patricia Heintzman told CBC News. A prelim...

These videos will break the silence and send shivers down your back. An ad campaign by Mexican non-profit organization Dif Zapopan — which promotes social and human development — lays bare the problem of child abuse in a recently released series of powerful videos. DIF ZAPOPAN - HARD TO SEE - UNCLE from Publicis México on Vimeo . The videos unravel the disturbing truth of family-related sexual abuse, that often goes unreported. The people in the videos are left faceless, in fact invisible, showing the underlying fact that it could anybody. The terrified silhouettes of the child trying to move away from the larger ones fade as image turns to message. DIF ZAPOPAN - HARD TO SEE - GRANDPA from Publicis México on Vimeo . Although Dif Zapopan is headquartered in Mexico, the message is not a far cry from issues here in Canada, with one in three Canadian adults reporting that they had suffered from childhood abuse , according to a 2014 study. The Canadian government’s most recent report...

For anyone who lives in the beautiful city of Toronto, we often do feel like we're in the centre of the universe. We have a great urban landscape, blocks and blocks of diverse neighbourhoods, and you can say our restaurant scene is pretty up to par with the rest of the culinary world. So when we get a chance to listen to a song about Toronto from the people of Toronto, we can't help but show off our city pride. Lilly Singh, now know worldwide as YouTuber and comedian (and of course, from Toronto) iiSuperwomanii, teamed up with fellow Canadian Humble The Poet to release their second track (if you remember, we got a taste of #Leh last year ), called "#IVIVI." And of course, if you're a native of the 6ix, you know IVIVI stands for 416 (our most popular area code). And the 6ix, well the 6ix is a nickname given by native Torontonian Drake, who needs no further introduction. The 4:29 music video, which was released on April 16 (416, get it?), features an array of shout-...

Wow!! Burning Ship at the Squamish Terminals. Posted by Christina Forsyth on Thursday, April 16, 2015 A huge fire at the Squamish Terminal docks sent huge plumes of thick smoke over the district on Thursday night. The timber-carrying Star Atlantic ship — originally thought as the source of the smoke — has been moved away from the terminal, reported CBC News. Firefighting crews from Squamish, West Vancouver, and Vancouver were responding to the blaze, said the outlet. Vancouver Fire Rescue tweeted that its fire boat was also dispatched. “There was a significant amount of billowing and dark-looking smoke coming off the ship at the terminal," Mayor Patricia Heintzman told CKNW. “It’s pretty smelly, pretty toxic smelling . There was a number of people down there and the RCMP has asked us to move away because not knowing the air quality issues which might arise from this.” She urged people to stay inside to avoid the smoke , reported Global News. Squamish is about 60 kilometres nor...