People wait in line to check in at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.

Five tweets on the ArriveCan app spending scandal

The federal government is in hot water after a major Auditor General’s report this week revealed that the COVID-era ArriveCan app may have cost Canadian taxpayers a whopping $60 million dollars to build and run. The initial contract was valued at a mere $2.4 million.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

The Bureau: filling in Canada's intelligence reporting gap

Journalist Sam Cooper left Global to found The Bureau, an online news outlet focussing on domestic and international intelligence stories, which he launched on Substack in June of last year. Since then, the new media outlet has been making a name for itself among fans of long-form, hard-hitting investigative journalism.