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Despite years of deficits, Canadian government predicts $3.7B surplus for...
Listen According to Canada’s finance minister, the federal government is not only on track to balance the budget by 2014-15, it will also end seven years of deficits and emerge with a surplus by the...
View ArticleNew budget in province of Ontario could set off election
“This Budget looks not only at the days ahead but at the next decade,” said the province of Ontario’s Finance Minister Charles Sousa. “We are laying out a robust plan for a strong Ontario with more...
View ArticleCanada’s Finance Minister downplays impact of tax measures leak
Canada’s Finance Minister Joe Oliver says he was very concerned by an “adminstrative error” last week which revealed government tax measures on the Finance ministry’s website. In a press conference...
View ArticlePolitics Today – January 18, 2015
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on a two-day strategy session of Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party in preparation for a federal election this year. He also reports...
View ArticleOfficial Opposition to government: Small business tax break was our idea, and...
Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party leader Thomas Mulcair questioned whether small business owners could really trust the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper two days after the...
View ArticleBank predicts $90 billion in deficits
One of Canada’s major banks predicts the government could run a deficit of $90 billion over the next four years of its mandate, reports Canadian Press. The current Liberal government was elected in...
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Nearly half of Canadians close to defaulting on bills
It’s a shocking finding but a poll last month found that nearly half of Canadians are within a mere 200 dollars of defaulting on bills and debt payments. It truly seems like a worrisome number of...
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A call for water funding and a dedicated minister
March 22 is World Water Day. It is also budget day in Canada and the Council of Canadians is calling on the government to budget $7.4 billion to expand the protection of water. The citizens’ group...
View ArticleBudget 2016: Ottawa forecasts $29.4B deficit
The Liberal government unveiled its first federal budget on Tuesday, outlining the new government’s plans to spend billions on infrastructure projects and tax benefits for the middle class amid a sea...
View ArticleLiberals promise $81B in new infrastructure spending to kick-start sluggish...
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to the stubborn sluggishness of Canadian economy by boosting infrastructure spending while making it easier for the private sector...
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Tax credit for using public transit removed
The idea was introduced in 2006 under the Conservative government as a “green” measure. In the face of climate change and a desire to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the public transit tax credit was...
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Ontario budget pledges money for high-speed rail
Provincial election on horizon In a pre-election budget, the provincial Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is promising $182 billion in infrastructure projects over ten years. The Ontario legislature...
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The LINK Online, Jan. 18-19-20
Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190118-WIE10 Canadian naval ship heads home after six-month tour in Mediterranean and North Atlantic...
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Skills training greatly needed in changing work environment
The Canadian government brings down its budget today and it is expected to include measures to provide badly-needed skills training for certain Canadians. “We’ve had some very prominent plant closures....
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New chapter in Canada’s political scandal: disruption to Parliament promised
The ethics scandal that’s been dogging the governing Liberal party had a new twist today, one that has the opposition fuming. An all-party Justice Committee has been hearing testimony into allegations...
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Budget lacks climate change measures, says environmentalist
Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has pledged $4 billion annually to help developing countries with climate change, but the government’s budget unveiled yesterday does not provide for it, says Dale...
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Ontario budget: deficit, booze and new licence plates
Canada’s largest province won’t have a balanced budget for the next five years, but Ontarians will have to get used to some gradual fiscal belt-tightening even as the provincial Progressive...
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Alberta tables austerity budget to rein in spending
Alberta’s United Conservative Party says it plans to cut public sector jobs, end the freeze on post-secondary tuition, chop municipal funding and delay infrastructure projects in hopes of returning the...
View ArticleFederal incentive budget for electric cars nearly halved in 8 months
The Canadian government has nearly spent half of its incentive budget for electric cars in just 8 months. The $300 million budget was supposed to last for the next three years. Instead, the federal...
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New digital tool helps students budget
A major Canadian bank has set up an innovation team with students which has created a digital tool to help post-secondary students manage their money. Figures from the 2011 census show that over 42 per...
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Tax the Rich campaign urges Canadians to act
The Canadian government is asking the public to go online and suggest how it should spend money to “jumpstart the country’s economic recovery” from the effects of the pandemic. A coalition is...
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Economic anxiety dogs many Canadians ahead of budget
A recent survey suggests that two-in-five Canadians are plagued by economic anxiety and half are worried that someone in their household might lose their job. The Canadian government will present a...
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Humanitarian groups call for more international aid in new Liberal budget
As Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland prepares to present to Parliament the Liberal budget on Monday, Canadian humanitarian groups are urging the Trudeau government to increase spending on...
View ArticleLiberals unveil $101.4B in new spending, project massive deficit in new budget
Canada’s minority Liberal government unveiled on Monday its first budget in two years, promising to invest federal funds in a national childcare program, establish a federal minimum wage of $15 per...
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Humanitarian NGOs disappointed with ‘missed opportunity’ in Liberal budget
Humanitarian groups in Canada are expressing their disappointment with the federal budget presented by the minority Liberal government, saying it is “a missed opportunity for Canada’s global...
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