Canada

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals focus on clean technology for climate spending

OTTAWA - Pushing the private sector to develop clean technology - and heavy emitters to adopt it - is where billions in new money will flow from the Liberals' 2021 budget pledge to tackle climate chan...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals top up long-term plan for affordable housing

OTTAWA - The federal government tweaked its housing and infrastructure plans in Monday's budget, but held back on an overhaul. In the first budget in more than two years, Finance Minister Chrystia Fre...

Apr 19, 2021

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Liberals bank on child care, e-commerce for growth

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are betting that billions more in debt will pay itself back in economic growth by helping thousands of workers find jobs and small businesses adapt to shifting consumer b...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals pledge $18 billion for Indigenous communities

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government plans to spend more than $18 billion over the next five years to try to narrow the socio-economic gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and to help t...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Money promised for military sex misconduct fight, NORAD upgrades

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are promising millions of additional dollars to help fight sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces as they seek to address anger and frustration over how the gover...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals seek to win over low-wage workers and students

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking to give workers and students a leg up with a budget that commits billions to training, benefits and debt relief, as those hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemi...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals extend COVID-19 aid with election top of mind

ckOTTAWA - The first federal budget in more than two years extends Ottawa's COVID-19 "lifeline" for workers and struggling businesses another few months as it aims to pull Canada through the pandemic ...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals extend COVID-19 aid with election top of mind

OTTAWA - The first federal budget in more than two years extends Ottawa's COVID-19 "lifeline" for workers and struggling businesses another few months as it aims to pull Canada through the pandemic on...

Apr 19, 2021

Families of workers killed in B.C. train derailment allege negligence in lawsuit

FIELD, B.C. - Families of two of three people killed in a train derailment near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary have filed lawsuits alleging negligence. The westbound Canadian Pacific train was ...

Apr 19, 2021

Several votes following budget could trigger an election, at least in theory

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government faces three votes in the wake of Monday's budget, any one of which could theoretically plunge the country into an election.But NDP Leader Jagmeet ...

Apr 19, 2021