VICTORIA — It's less than 100 metres long, but costs and delays have ballooned for Victoria's Johnson Street Bridge replacement project in a cautionary tale involving standards for steel and a cultural divide that spans continents.
The idea came from Rob Shostak, a Toronto-based designer who works for an architectural firm.
The federal Liberal cabinet minister says she meant it as a joke — but Mihychuk is nonetheless standing by her message that she hopes one day soon, the program will no longer be necessary.
The agency says voter participation among those aged 18 to 24 rose by 18.3 percentage points to 57.1 per cent, up from 38.8 per cent in 2011.
MONTREAL — Visa is accusing Walmart of using consumers as pawns in its battle over merchant fees by threatening to ban the popular credit card from its Canadian stores.
The report by the C.D. Howe Institute think tank also argues that tying up the extra funds in pension contributions is an inefficient use of scarce financial resources for Canadians.