‘Long overdue’: Ontario juror pay increasing to $120 per day from Day 1 of service

OTTAWA — Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon said Tuesday he is starting to worry that Parliament’s two main opposition parties are signalling that the government should not count on their support for its upcoming budget. Should that spending plan fail to pass, it would cause Parliament to fall and pave the way for Canadians to head back to the polls for a second time in the same year. “If an election is necessary, we would obviously, reluctantly, because we don’t think Canadians want an election, but election there will be,” MacKinnon told reporters on his way into the government...