Canada’s 5% NATO pledge to add $63-billion to deficit over next decade, budget watchdog says
Steven Chase / theglobeandmail - PBO says meeting the goal could cost about $33.5-billion more each year until 2035-36
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BREAKING: Canada’s EV mandate set to be scrapped as Ottawa unveils new automotive strategy
David Wiechnik / westernstandard - Ottawa is expected to announce it is scrapping Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate and replacing it with a new system of fuel efficiency standards and credits.
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Canada will focus foreign aid on building 'mutual prosperity' with trading partners: MP
Dylan Robertson / nationalobserver - The MP overseeing foreign aid says Ottawa wants to focus its international assistance efforts on countries that can generate economic spinoffs for Canadians.
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Danielle Smith says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Premier Danielle Smith said her government will withhold funds for new judicial appointments in Alberta if the federal government doesn't give the province a say on who is picked.
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Canadians sitting on $2B in uncashed federal cheques: Report
Brian Towie / torontosun - Families also left approximately $42.8 million in cheques for the Canada Child Benefit left uncashed.
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Carney’s grocery, GST benefit plan will cost $12.4B over six years: PBO
Ariel Rabinovitch / globalnews - The recently announced Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit will cost an estimated $12.4 billion over six years, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
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Nuclear refurbishment is completed and under budget at Ontario's Darlington plant: minister
Allison Jones / nationalobserver - A nuclear refurbishment at the Darlington power plant is now complete and the unit is set to soon return to service.
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Ottawa wants to get banks, pension funds involved in affordable housing: minister
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says Ottawa wants to speed up homebuilding by drawing developers into affordable housing projects through the new Build Canada Homes agency.
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Immigration minister says struggling universities must ask provinces for help
News Staff / citynews - HALIFAX — Canada’s immigration minister says universities and colleges struggling to balance the books after federal cuts to the international student program will have to turn to their provincial governments for financial help. Lena Diab told a crowd in …
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Quebec announces compensation plan for caregivers
News Staff / citynews - Quebec has launched its national home support policy (PSAD), investing $107.2 million, and caregivers can now be compensated. Health Minister and Minister Responsible for Seniors and Caregivers Sonia Bélanger made the announcement Thursday morning in Pier…
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Carney unveils hike to GST credit, other measures targeting affordability
Stephanie Levitz / theglobeandmail - The package includes an increase to the GST credit for five years and $20-million to support food banks
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Executives will be among public service cuts as job notices roll out, deputy ministers say
Bill Curry / theglobeandmail - The government plans to reduce the size of the workforce by 30,000
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Universities and colleges say more funding critical to Ford’s ‘protect Ontario’ plan
John Marchesan / citynews - Ontario’s universities and colleges are looking for billion-dollar funding boosts in the province’s upcoming budget, investments they are framing as critical to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to “protect Ontario” from tariff impacts by strengthening domestic ca…
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Thousands of federal government workers receive layoff notices
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said federal government workers are being forced into a 'Hunger Games-style fight for jobs.'
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Inflation ticked up to 2.4% in December: StatCan
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Statistics Canada says the end of the federal government’s tax holiday a year earlier pushed the annual pace of inflation up two ticks to 2.4 per cent in December.
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Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs, 12 per cent of executive team
sootoday - OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says it will be cutting around 850 of its staff along with 12 per cent of its executive team.
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Montreal's $7.7B budget raises spending by 5.4 per cent, has money for homelessness
sootoday - MONTREAL — Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has presented a $7.7-billion budget with new spending on housing and homelessness. The first budget since Martinez Ferrada won the November election raises spending by about 5.
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Fifty years after the Games, Quebecers still spending on Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
The Canadian Press / nationalpost - MONTREAL — Montreal’s Olympic Stadium started 2026 the same way it began the 1976 Games: under construction and without a roof. In 2024, Quebec’s tourism minister announced the province would spend $870 million to replace the stadium’s roof, which was tor…
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Ontario sues Skills Development Fund-linked company over alleged fraud
John Marchesan / citynews - The Ontario government has filed a lawsuit against a company it contracted to run a student mental health program, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation and seeking to recoup more than $25 million in public money. Ontario alleges Keel Digital Solutions, t…
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Federal government to help fund firearm buyback efforts in Quebec
News Staff / citynews - This federal government says it will provide up to $12.4 million to cover costs incurred by Quebec to co-ordinate a buyback of banned firearms in the province. Since May 2020, Ottawa has outlawed approximately 2,500 types of guns on the basis they belong …
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