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Return on fall budget investments will help drive down deficit: Champagne
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help to pay down the deficit in later years. He tells The Ca...
Sep 18, 2025 Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Trade corridor partnership connecting northern and southern Ontario announced
SAULT STE. MARIE - Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority have signed a partnership to develop a trade corridor connecting northern and southern Ontario. The corridor is expect...
Sep 18, 2025
Canada, Mexico to sign strategic partnership agreement
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico, which starts today. The agreement will co...
Sep 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney greets Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...
Sep 18, 2025
Canada's 2030 emissions target is out of reach after progress stalled in 2024: report
OTTAWA - Canada's short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada's progress, Ca...
Sep 18, 2025
Lichen, logging, land rights: Complex forces play out in fate of ancient B.C. forest
A shaggy, cool-green lichen hangs from the trunk of a tree in a forest on northeastern Vancouver Island, growing on the bark like coral on a rocky sea floor. Lichenologist Trevor Goward has named it o...
Sep 18, 2025
Alberta to launch ad campaign as strike looms in contract standoff with teachers
EDMONTON - A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers - with each side accusing the other of lying - is set to turn into an all-out advertising war. Finance Minister Nate ...
Sep 18, 2025
Montreal mayor sees opening of UN-Habitat office as part of her political legacy
MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...
Sep 18, 2025
N.S. was aiming for 500 hosts on the home-sharing program that resulted in 60 leases
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia home-sharing program that was billed as a tool to help address the housing shortage fell far short of the government's initial target, documents released by the province show. ...
Sep 18, 2025
CRTC launches hearing on Canadian content obligations for music streamers
OTTAWA - The federal broadcast regulator begins a hearing today to look at which Canadian content obligations should apply to music streamers like Spotify. Streaming services argue their current effor...
Sep 18, 2025
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