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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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