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Liberals’ fiscal update shows billions more in deficits but steady economy
OTTAWA - Canada's federal budget deficit will be billions of dollars deeper than it was supposed to be this year and next, the Finance Department says, as the Liberals promise to keep spending to keep...
Dec 16, 2019
Federal government posts $14B shortfall in 2018-19
OTTAWA - The federal government ran a $14-billion deficit in 2018-19, according to its latest annual financial report, the third year in a row with a shortfall bigger than $10 billion. The deficit for...
Sep 17, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Feds’ books still on pace for $15B deficit despite surplus through most of '18-19
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government says it remains on track to post a budgetary shortfall of about $15 billion in 2018-19 even though a new estimate says the federal books ran a $3.1-billion surplus thro...
Apr 26, 2019
Ottawa’s fall update features $16B competitiveness response to U.S. tax reforms
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have come up with a $16-billion answer to Canada's competitiveness concerns. Ottawa's long-awaited plan to help Canada compete with the United States for investment dolla...
Nov 22, 2018
Canada’s June trade numbers surprisingly strong despite U.S. tariffs on metals
Surging exports led by higher-priced energy products allowed Canada to shrug off new U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs in June to post the lowest monthly merchandise trade deficit with the world in 17 m...
Aug 03, 2018
Government's year end books confirm $1.22 billion deficit
The end-of-year books are now complete for the province, confirming a $1.22 billion deficit. The 2016-17 public accounts show the deficit was $914 million higher than budgeted, even with a positive ad...
Jul 21, 2017
STC operated with a loss in final year
The last full year of operation for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) did not look good. The annual report released Tuesday showed it had a deficit of $34 million by the end of 2016-17. In...
Jul 18, 2017
'Tomorrow never comes:' Taxpayers Federation skeptical about future surplus in Sask.
The provincial budget puts off tough decisions and instead forces families to make the difficult spending choices, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). Expenses are up 2.4 per cent in...
Mar 25, 2017
'It won’t change anything:' Sask. unions and NDP oppose forced unpaid days off
If ever it need a rallying cry, Saskatchewan's biggest union now has one. The Saskatchewan Government Employee Union (SGEU) will fight what it calls the latest attack on working people as the idea of ...
Feb 16, 2017
Sask. government looking at days off without pay for public sector
Unpaid days off for the public sector is being considered as the provincial government wrestles with a $1.2-billion deficit. It's estimated if every public sector employee takes one unpaid day off, th...
Feb 15, 2017
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Evan talks with paNOW reporter Nigel Maxwell about the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' $34,251,566 in expens...