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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
Next Level: Blue Jays target post-season after falling short by one game in 2021
TORONTO - Vladimir Guerrero Jr., captured the Toronto Blue Jays' mood perfectly at spring training when he was asked what his expectations were for this season. "What we did last year was the trailer,...
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
$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.Freel...
Apr 07, 2022
RCMP investigating after two cow carcasses found behind Alberta cemetery
AIRDRIE, Alta. - RCMP say they are investigating after two cows that were killed, skinned and had their meat taken, were found in a rural community northeast of Calgary.Police say the carcasses were d...
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