Ontario MPPs set for 35% pay increase, ending 16-year salary freeze

KANANASKIS, Alta. — It’s an odd thing to be asked your business in your own country, in your own province, in an area where you’ve spent plenty of time hiking and climbing and skiing. A place where the whole purpose is to be free — or at least freer than in the city. You expect these questions going through customs or at checkpoints in less salubrious parts of the world. But not necessarily out on a gravel backroad in Kananaskis, Alta. Of course, with the G7 in town starting Sunday and a massive security operation restricting access to huge swathes of the backcountry, it’s a matter...