The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the pension fund for MPs is a massive ripoff for taxpayers and should be shut down.

Canadian taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on supporting a federal appointments commission that doesn't exist, in the six years since the Harper government came to power.

Canadian government scientists are still being hampered from talking to the media about their taxpayer-funded research and that's bad news for the public, say groups representing both journalists and federal scientists.

A federal program that spent millions paying farmers to get out of the tobacco business only to see their numbers rise is this year's winner of a government waste award.