In today’s letters to the editor: the budget; private nursing agencies; the eclipse

Canadian entrepreneurs and investors are blasting the federal government's budget for expanding a tax on the rich that they say will worsen brain drain and further degrade productivity. The government estimates the change will impact 0.13 per cent of Canadians in any given year, and 307,000 Canadian companies.

Seven people have been picked from a vast jury pool – five more jurors and six alternates remain to be chosen for the historic trial

Johnson laid down the gauntlet to the critics in his own party, noting that "history judges us for what we do."