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Budget 2023: Ottawa threatens to freeze U.S. firms from green tax credits, contracts
Ottawa is threatening a tit-for-tat with Washington over green tax credits and government procurement policies that risk freezing out Canadian businesses. This year's federal budget announces two cons...
Mar 28, 2023
Feds outline $83B in clean economy tax credits in bid to compete with U.S. incentive
OTTAWA - Serious money is heading for Canadian industries looking to reduce emissions after the federal government unveiled its answer to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act. The spending commitments ann...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: Key highlights from the federal Liberals' spending plan
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government has released a 2023-24 spending plan that prioritizes spending on health care, transitioning Canadian businesses to a clean economy and offering affordability m...
Mar 28, 2023
Nine police officers recently killed in Canada; here is a look at their deaths
A veteran Quebec provincial police officer was stabbed to death Monday night after she tried to arrest a suspect in Louiseville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Sgt. Maureen Breau, w...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: Feds commit consultation money for Indigenous resource sharing
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is committing $8.7 million to hold more consultations on Indigenous resource sharing, in a budget that offers relatively little new spending on its reconciliati...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: Projected cost of federal dental program set to more than double
OTTAWA - The new federal budget shows the government's dental-care insurance program is now set to cost more than double what the Liberals originally thought, adding another $7.3 billion over five yea...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: What you missed, from phone chargers and concert fees to air travel
OTTAWA - For Canadians fed up with chargers that don't fit their cellphones, hidden fees, air-travel disruptions and cosmetic testing on animals, the Liberal government says help is on the way. Those ...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: Liberals follow through on big promises in deal with NDP
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has continued to fulfil its promises to the NDP within its second federal budget since the parties struck a confidence-and-supply agreement in March 2022. New Democrats...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023 belt-tightening: Liberals order federal spending review, cuts
OTTAWA - Federal departments and agencies are being told to start tightening their belts as the Trudeau government looks for ways to pay for its latest budget promises while easing recent criticism ov...
Mar 28, 2023
Budget 2023: Liberals add foreign interference office, new money-laundering rules
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government plans to launch a National Counter-Foreign Interference Office, amid ongoing scrutiny of allegations that Beijing interfered in recent feder...
Mar 28, 2023