Tag Archives: Economy

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's auditor general says the province's spending outside the regular budget process lacks oversight and is costing the government millions of dollars in interest. In a report relea...

VANCOUVER - Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics. He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no hi...

The British Columbia Securities Commission has levied about $430 million in unpaid fines and disgorgement orders for breaches of the province's Securities Act. Here are some of those who have the larg...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the federal budget on April 16, as cost-of-living issues continue to dominate Canadian politics. "Our economic plan is about building more home...

EDMONTON - Alberta's budget for 2024-25 foresees a slim $367 million surplus, with slightly lower revenues compared to last year's estimated top line. Here is where some of the funds in this year's re...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island's Progressive Conservative government tabled a $3.2-billion budget Thursday with a projected deficit of $85 million. Finance Minister Jill Burridge's operating bud...

OTTAWA - The federal government will repurpose $10.5 billion over the next three years from the budgets of 69 departments, agencies and Crown corporations, Treasury Board President Anita Anand said Th...

EDMONTON - Health care and education came out ahead Thursday in a generally restrained Alberta provincial budget forecasting a paper-thin surplus that could easily go up in smoke. "It is a solid budge...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has tabled a $16.5-billion budget that indexes provincial income tax rates to inflation - a move the government said Thursday will provide relief from the province's rising cost ...

VICTORIA - Minimum-wage workers in British Columbia will get a pay hike of 65 cents an hour to $17.40 starting June 1, a move the government says will help lift more people out of poverty. The Ministr...