Tag Archives: Economy

The province's finance minister, Donna Harpauer, says the 2020-21 budget is finished and Monday's deep plunge in oil prices doesn't factor into it. "We had made some adjustments already for the downtu...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to ease the concerns over the novel coronavirus outbreak on a day where financial markets dropped along with the price of oil,&nb...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will do whatever it takes to rescue the province from an oil price collapse and he wants the federal government to step up as well. "Thi...

Canada reported its first COVID-19 death on Monday after a man died at a long-term care home in North Vancouver as the federal government asked provincial and territorial leaders t...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling for spending cuts and waste reduction in the coming budget to unleash the economy and create jobs. Tory MPs told a Sunday n...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau was told weeks into the Liberals' second mandate that Canadians are most worried about affordability in areas where governments have a lot of power over prices -...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says the novel coronavirus outbreak is hammering Alberta's economy and may force his government to abandon its core election promise to balance the books by 2...

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday, beating expectatio...

The federal government will provide financial help for quarantined Canadians over novel coronavirus concerns, and pad its budget contingency should the economic hit be prolonged and deep, Finance Mini...

TORONTO - The federal government is preparing to undertake measures designed to protect Canadians and the country's economy from the outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus. Finance Minister Bill Morn...