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Sarah Mills: A self-serving budget vote by the Green Party's Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May may like to claim the moral high ground, saying she's doing the right thing for Canadians with her crucial budget vote, but Sarah Mills says May was only serving her own interests. The M...
Nov 19, 2025
Carney defends green pledge to get Budget 2025 passed in narrow vote
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday defended making a commitment to carbon emission targets to get the government's spending plan over the finish line. Carney told reporters before the weekly cabine...
Nov 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Liberal budget survives in tight House vote before Carney departs for UAE
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government narrowly passed a crucial budget vote Monday, with four MPs abstaining and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May backing the budget. Members of Parliament voted 170 ...
Nov 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne applaud following a vote on the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Ottawa's operating spending - not capital - driving deeper deficits: PBO
The parliamentary budget officer projects Ottawa will blow past the new fiscal anchors set out in last week's 2025 federal budget. Interim budget officer Jason Jacques says in a new analysis of the bu...
Nov 14, 2025 Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques waits to appear before the Senate Banking, Commerce and the Economy committee in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Saskatoon Chamber CEO hopes council can lower proposed 8.23% property tax hike for 2026
The CEO of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce hopes options presented to city councilors to lower property taxes in the next two-year budget will be considered and applied during budget deliber...
Nov 10, 2025 Saskatoon's City Council has voted against the venue management company, OVG 360, becoming management for the new Downtown Event and Entertainment District. (650 CKOM file photo)
Liberal government survives second confidence vote amid Conservative caucus turmoil
The Conservatives helped the minority Liberal government survive a second confidence vote on the budget this afternoon. The House of Commons recorded a vote of 307 against a Bloc Qubcois motion to rej...
Nov 07, 2025 The Canadian flag flies on the roof of the West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Saskatoon's 2026 property tax hike projected at 8.23% ahead of budget deliberations
Home, property and business owners in Saskatoon could see an 8.23 per cent property tax increase in 2026, along with a 5.95 per cent property tax increase for 2027, according to the latest figures fro...
Nov 06, 2025 Clae Hack, Saskatoon's chief financial officer, broke down the projected budget numbers for 2026 and 2027 during a news conference on Thursday. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
NDP says it will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
NDP interim leader Don Davies says his caucus will keep the minority Liberal government alive in the first of three confidence tests of the federal budget today. Members of Parliament are set to vote ...
Nov 06, 2025 Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is applauded by members of the Liberal party as he delivers the federal budget speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Premier Scott Moe talks tariffs, federal budget and CFL West Final on Evan Bray Show
Saskatchewan's premier says he's cautiously optimistic about what he saw in Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget, and he's hoping to see real progress on a number of trade disputes in the...
Nov 06, 2025 Premier Scott Moe says the relationship between Saskatchewan and Ottawa has improved since Prime Minister Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau. (Marija Robinson/650 CKOM)
Ottawa to restore accidentally deleted privacy provision in streaming bill
The Liberal government says it will restore a privacy provision from the Online Streaming Act that was accidentally deleted. The federal budget released this week says the government will make a legis...
Nov 05, 2025 The Peace Tower is seen on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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