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Budget 2022: Housing supply gets $10B boost; Feds add measures to curb speculation
TORONTO - The Liberal government will try to ease Canada's housing crisis with more than $10 billion in funding meant to speed up home construction and repairs along with measures to cool the market a...
Apr 07, 2022
Budget 2022 devotes $4.3 billion to Indigenous housing needs
Ottawa is preparing to spend $4.3 billion over seven years to help improve Indigenous housing, while also giving more to help communities contend with the harmful past of residential schools. Investin...
Apr 07, 2022
Budget 2022 makes good on dental care, but little in new health spending
OTTAWA - The Liberals have made good on promises to the NDP when it comes to health spending in their newly released budget, but offered little else in new spending to reinvigorate Canada's struggling...
Apr 07, 2022
Budget 2022: $500M in military aid to Ukraine, projects economic upheaval from war
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland referenced horrific allegations of Russian war crimes on Thursday as the federal Liberal government promised another $500 million in military aid as well as...
Apr 07, 2022
Budget 2022: Canada won't meet NATO target with more than $8B in new military funding
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government responded Thursday to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion in new military spending over the next fiv...
Apr 07, 2022
Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot jury ends 4th day of deliberations
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan jury ended its fourth day of deliberations on Thursday without having reached verdicts in the trial of four men accused of scheming to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitme...
Apr 07, 2022
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 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