Canada

Canada's astronauts set to receive new assignments during space agency announcement

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Some Canadian astronauts are set to get new assignments today. Franois-Philippe Champagne, the federal minister of innovation, science and industry, will announce the roles at the Ca...

Nov 22, 2023

Canadians want to see carbon price paused on all home heating fuel, poll suggests

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are broadly in favour of the federal government's decision to exempt home heating oil from its price on carbon, and would welcome expanding the relief to all for...

Nov 22, 2023

Public sector general strike in Quebec enters Day 2, more walkouts later this week

MONTREAL - Unions representing hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers, particularly in health care and education, are on strike again today. The workers are part of a "common front" of ...

Nov 22, 2023

Federal government posts $8.2 billion deficit between April and September this year

OTTAWA - The federal government recorded a budgetary deficit of $8.2 billion between April and September, $3.9 billion of which was in September. The finance department says in its monthly fiscal moni...

Nov 21, 2023

Feds set aside $7B from Canada Growth Fund for carbon-price contract guarantees

OTTAWA - The federal government is dedicating almost half of its clean-tech economic investment fund to special contracts intended to give companies the confidence they need to make major investments ...

Nov 21, 2023

Five new affordability measures in the Liberal government's fall fiscal update

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled a fall economic statement on Tuesday that aims to support middle-class Canadians amid soaring consumer prices and looming mortgage renewals. She anno...

Nov 21, 2023

Key highlights from the Liberals' 2023 fall economic statement

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled her fall economic statement on Tuesday, updating Canadians on the country's financial health and introducing some new measures to target the housing ...

Sheldon Spackman Nov 21, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Finance Minister Freeland tables 2023 fiscal update

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's fall economic statement acknowledges the cost-of-living crisis weighing on Canadians but offers few new measures to tackle it while pledging to keep deficits in check...

Sheldon Spackman Nov 21, 2023

B.C. unfairly clawed back COVID-19 benefit to thousands during pandemic, says report

VICTORIA - A report says thousands of people in British Columbia saw their $1,000 COVID-19 benefit unfairly clawed back by the provincial government. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke's report says so far, 12,0...

Nov 21, 2023

'Bank of mom and dad' study: B.C. high earners get housing boost if parents also own

OTTAWA - A Statistics Canada study into what it calls the "bank of mom and dad" shows home ownership among young high earners in British Columbia increases more than anywhere else in Canada if their p...

Nov 21, 2023