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Budget aiming to end investment transfer fees, enhance banking competition
by Craig Wong and Ian Bickis OTTAWA - Ottawa plans to make it easier for Canadians to move their banking and investment accounts in a bid to increase competition and reduce costs for consumers. The go...
Nov 04, 2025 The budget moves should offer a boost to fintech companies looking to challenge the dominance of Canada's big banks, which hold a commanding share of the market. (dedivan1923 / Depositphotos.com)
Billions of dollars allocated for defence in budget as global spending race ramps up
by Kyle Duggan OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled plans Tuesday to shell out $73 billion for national defence by the end of the decade - a staggering sum as Canada positions itself to meet aggre...
Nov 04, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney checks out an Orion-H9 Counter-UAS, a directional drone disrupter, as he visits a vehicle display at the Adazi Military base in Adazi, Latvia on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
P.E.I. to spend $857 million over five years for health, education and infrastructure
CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island says it plans to spend $857 million over the next five years on major projects. The capital budget presented by Finance Minister Jill Burridge focuses on health ca...
Nov 04, 2025
Feds pitch $2B fund for critical minerals investments, including equity stakes
OTTAWA - The federal budget says Canada will take out equity stakes in critical mineral projects to open up mining and position Canada as a major global supplier. The federal budget, released Tuesday ...
Nov 04, 2025
Global Affairs Canada could merge embassies with allies, must focus on trade: budget
OTTAWA - The Carney government's first budget redirects diplomatic dollars to the trade file while cutting Global Affairs Canada's budget - possibly by merging some embassies with those operated by li...
Nov 04, 2025
Federal budget forecasts $78B deficit as Liberals shift spending to capital projects
OTTAWA - This year's federal budget contains a deficit nearly twice the size forecast by the Liberals a year ago, as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government prioritizes capital project spending over p...
Nov 04, 2025
Vassy Kapelos tells Evan Bray it's 'anybody's guess' if Carney's first budget will pass
Mark Carney's Liberal government is set to table its first budget on Tuesday afternoon, in what many political watchers see as the first real test for the new prime minister and his cabinet. The Liber...
Nov 04, 2025 The Canadian flag flies atop the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Champagne's biggest test yet — selling a 'generational' budget to anxious Canadians
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to sell Canadians on his first-ever budget - one that he's billed as containing both once-in-a generation capital spending projects and austerity measures ...
Nov 04, 2025
Liberal budget earmarks billions for 'bold and swift action' to meet U.S. disruption
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget takes a big swing at making Canada's economy a more attractive place to invest with billions of dollars for infrastructure and new tax opport...
Nov 04, 2025
How it started, how it ended: A chronology of Ontario's ad blitz against U.S. tariffs
OTTAWA - Here is a day-by-day chronology of the controversy over Ontario's advertising campaign against U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods: Tues., Oct. 14: The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the...
Nov 03, 2025
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