Canada

Budget 2022 devotes $4.3 billion to Indigenous housing needs

Ottawa is preparing to spend $4.3 billion over seven years to help improve Indigenous housing, while also giving more to help communities contend with the harmful past of residential schools. Investin...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022 makes good on dental care, but little in new health spending

OTTAWA - The Liberals have made good on promises to the NDP when it comes to health spending in their newly released budget, but offered little else in new spending to reinvigorate Canada's struggling...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: A look at the highlights of the federal Liberal fiscal plan

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2022 federal budget on Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - $452.3 billion in new spending on projected revenue of $408.4 billion for a d...

Alex Rawnsley Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: $500M in military aid to Ukraine, projects economic upheaval from war

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland referenced horrific allegations of Russian war crimes on Thursday as the federal Liberal government promised another $500 million in military aid as well as...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: Canada won't meet NATO target with more than $8B in new military funding

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government responded Thursday to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion in new military spending over the next fiv...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: Liberals rejig $15B toward new business investment fund

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are promising to create two new arm's-length bodies to handle billions in federal funds to prod businesses to invest in themselves. The measures unveiled in the 2022 fede...

Apr 07, 2022

'May not align:' Guilbeault pens letter to Suncor over oilsands mine expansion GHGs

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned Canada's biggest oilsands producer that its planned mine expansion may not meet climate targets. In a letter released Wednesday to Mark Little...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: A look at some of the promises you might have missed

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2022 federal budget on Thursday. Here are some of the smaller promises that you might have missed: - $1.9 billion over 24 years to build and oper...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: A checklist of promises that were in the Liberal-NDP confidence deal

OTTAWA - The Liberals and New Democrats published a confidence and supply agreement last month in an effort to keep the minority Parliament working until the next fixed election in 2025. The deal woul...

Apr 07, 2022

Canadian Press NewsAlert: $452B federal budget focused on affordability, innovation

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's second pandemic budget turns Canada's fiscal focus to making life more affordable for people and giving a long-needed boost to Canadian productivity. But ...

Apr 07, 2022