Canada

Budget 2022: $500M in military aid to Ukraine, projects economic upheaval from war

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland referenced horrific allegations of Russian war crimes on Thursday as the federal Liberal government promised another $500 million in military aid as well as...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: Canada won't meet NATO target with more than $8B in new military funding

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government responded Thursday to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion in new military spending over the next fiv...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: Liberals rejig $15B toward new business investment fund

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are promising to create two new arm's-length bodies to handle billions in federal funds to prod businesses to invest in themselves. The measures unveiled in the 2022 fede...

Apr 07, 2022

'May not align:' Guilbeault pens letter to Suncor over oilsands mine expansion GHGs

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned Canada's biggest oilsands producer that its planned mine expansion may not meet climate targets. In a letter released Wednesday to Mark Little...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: A checklist of promises that were in the Liberal-NDP confidence deal

OTTAWA - The Liberals and New Democrats published a confidence and supply agreement last month in an effort to keep the minority Parliament working until the next fixed election in 2025. The deal woul...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: A look at some of the promises you might have missed

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2022 federal budget on Thursday. Here are some of the smaller promises that you might have missed: - $1.9 billion over 24 years to build and oper...

Apr 07, 2022

Canadian Press NewsAlert: $452B federal budget focused on affordability, innovation

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's second pandemic budget turns Canada's fiscal focus to making life more affordable for people and giving a long-needed boost to Canadian productivity. But ...

Apr 07, 2022

Budget 2022: Flush from booming economy, Feds eye growth with $31B in new spending

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have more than $85 billion in new spending room from a booming economic rebound and plan to spend some of the windfall on a series of measures aimed at keeping the good g...

Apr 07, 2022

Two Mounties started firing at N.S. mass shooter as he lifted RCMP pistol: documents

HALIFAX - Two officers who fired rounds into the torso of a mass shooter at a Nova Scotia gas station say they started shooting as the killer raised what one believed to be an RCMP general duty pistol...

Apr 07, 2022

RCMP collects evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine from people fleeing invasion

OTTAWA - The RCMP is collecting evidence of alleged war crimes in Ukraine from people fleeing to Canada following Russia's invasion of their country. The investigation by the Mounties has been launche...

Apr 07, 2022