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Liberals set to deliver highly anticipated federal budget today
OTTAWA - The federal government is set to unveil its budget today - the Liberals' first fiscal update in almost a year and the first summary of Prime Minister Mark Carney's agenda since the party rele...
Nov 04, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, shakes hands with Finance Minister Francois Philippe-Champagne at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday, March 14, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Champagne's biggest test yet — selling a 'generational' budget to anxious Canadians
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to sell Canadians on his first-ever budget - one that he's billed as containing both once-in-a generation capital spending projects and austerity measures ...
Nov 04, 2025
With Carney's budget tabled, the countdown to a make-or-break confidence vote begins
OTTAWA - While Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne vowed there would be no surprises in the federal budget he tabled Tuesday, the biggest surprise of the day may have come from the Official Op...
Nov 04, 2025
Alberta to search for a new auditor general even as Wylie offers two-year extension
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is on the hunt for a new auditor general, but the Opposition NDP says they're forcing him out before he finishes investigating a health-care contracting scandal. Audi...
Nov 03, 2025
Manitoba legislature session may be extended to pass 72-hour detention bill
WINNIPEG - In the words of Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, a "game of chicken" is underway at the legislature with Kinew threatening to extend the current session in order to pass a bill that would allow ...
Nov 03, 2025
Halloween display depicting politicians hanging from gallows taken down in Manitoba
STE-GENEVIVE - A Halloween display of politicians hanging from gallows has been taken down from a home in southern Manitoba and police say there will be no charges. The Rural Municipality of Tach conf...
Nov 03, 2025
Montreal mayor-elect is a former refugee who says her victory breaks barriers
MONTREAL - Montreal's mayor-elect said Monday that her background as a child refugee from Chile is proof that people from all over the world can be welcomed and find success in the city - even as the ...
Nov 03, 2025
How it started, how it ended: A chronology of Ontario's ad blitz against U.S. tariffs
OTTAWA - Here is a day-by-day chronology of the controversy over Ontario's advertising campaign against U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods: Tues., Oct. 14: The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the...
Nov 03, 2025
Manitoba premier says people with child porn should be buried under prisons
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew stirred up controversy Monday in denouncing a Supreme Court of Canada ruling on child pornography and calling for offenders to be buried underneath prisons. "Chil...
Nov 03, 2025
Carney asked Ford 'a couple of times' to pull anti-tariff ad, premier says
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney called Doug Ford "a couple of times" from Asia to ask him to pull an ad campaign that's being blamed for ending trade talks with the United States, the Ontario pre...
Nov 03, 2025
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...