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OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is arguing that tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment in Budget 2026 will give Canada the freedom to shape its own future.
The Liberal government is arguing that tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment in Budget 2026 will give Canada the freedom to shape its own future. Ottawa is proposing $142.1 billion in new measures, largely offset by stronger-than-expected federal revenues, in the budget tabled Thursday afternoon in the House of Commons. Big-ticket items are aimed...
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is arguing that tax changes, cultural supports and billions of dollars aimed at stoking investment in Budget 2026 will give Canada the freedom to shape its own future.
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals are teeing up Thursday's budget as the government's next step toward fixing long-standing problems facing Canada's economy.
The federal Liberals are teeing up Thursday's budget as the government's next step toward fixing long-standing problems facing Canada's economy. Budget 2026 will be the second tabled under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Budgets detail a government's expectations for economic growth and the projected pace of spending and borrowing. They're also political documents that can serve as a launching pad for...
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is getting ready to reveal how a prolonged global energy shock and a series of spending commitments over the summer have affected the state of federal finances.
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is getting ready to reveal how a prolonged global energy shock and a series of spending commitments over the summer have affected the state of federal finances.
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal government's fiscal policy is at odds with the central bank's efforts to control inflation. Macklem spoke to members of Parliament on the House of Commons finance committee this morning, two days before the Liberal government plans to table its 2026 federal budget. Conservative finance critic Michael Chong asked...
OTTAWA -- Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal government's fiscal policy is at odds with the central bank's efforts to control inflation.
The Liberal government is getting ready to table its 2026 budget on Thursday -- but Ottawa's own focus groups suggest Canadians aren't watching the state of the federal purse too closely. Finance Canada commissioned market research firm Environics to host a series of roundtables with Canadians roughly a week after Ottawa tabled its spring economic update on April 28. Mid-year...
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is getting ready to table its 2026 budget on Thursday -- but Ottawa's own focus groups suggest Canadians aren't watching the state of the federal purse too closely.
Statistics Canada says the economy stalled for a second month in a row in August amid weakness in the public sector and wholesale trade. The agency says real gross domestic product was essentially unchanged in August despite a rebound in retail trade that more than offset a decline in July. Manufacturing output has also grown in five of the last...
Canada’s economy stalled for a second month in a row in August and may be set for a decline in September, Statistics Canada said Friday.
Canadian labour leaders are warning that unions could trigger a nationwide job action if Ottawa rams through a contentious suite of proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code. The Liberal government's Bill C-39 includes language that would clarify a minister's power to use Section 107 of the labour code to order a business under federal jurisdiction to resume operations, or...
OTTAWA -- Canadian labour leaders are warning that unions could trigger a nationwide job action if Ottawa rams through a contentious suite of proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code.
OTTAWA -- The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday as it tries to get ahead of looming price hikes.
The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday as it tries to get ahead of looming price hikes. The central bank's policy rate now stands at 2.5 per cent following a quarter-point hike. That key rate, which influences the cost of borrowing for banks, businesses and consumers alike...
The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than three years on Wednesday as it warned higher costs from the war in the Middle East are likely to spread.
After three days spent fostering tighter economic and political ties with Turkey, Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way home to Ottawa. Carney closed out his trip earlier this morning by visiting one of Istanbul's many great cultural landmarks, the Kariye Mosque, accompanied by his wife, Diana Fox Carney. The mosque was once a Byzantine church and is renowned...
ISTANBUL -- After three days spent fostering tighter economic and political ties with Turkey, Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way home to Ottawa.
ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending Canada's decision to seek closer ties with Turkey as the country is accused of infringing on LGBTQ+ rights.
ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday a Canadian company has a real shot at winning a lucrative tender to supply nuclear energy to Turkey — a prospect he said was remote a year ago.
ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says there is "no merit" to American claims that Canadians might be interfering in U.S. politics ahead of November's midterm elections.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says there is "no merit" to American claims that Canadians might be interfering in U.S. politics ahead of November's midterm elections. Officials in the Trump administration, including U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, have claimed Canadian politicians are interfering in the democratic process south of the border. Hoekstra said earlier this month that the administration is...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday a Canadian company has a real shot at winning a lucrative tender to supply nuclear energy to Turkey — a prospect he said was remote a year ago. Carney was meeting with Turkish business leaders in Istanbul Friday, a day after he announced a new strategic partnership between Canada and Turkey to deepen co-operation...
ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says a Canadian company's bid to supply nuclear energy to Turkey has a real shot of winning the lucrative tender.
ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says there is "no merit" to American claims that Canadians might be interfering in U.S. politics ahead of November's midterm elections.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending Canada's decision to seek closer ties with Turkey as the country is accused of infringing on LGBTQ+ rights. Carney is in Turkey for a three-day trip to strike a new strategic partnership for deeper economic and social ties with the NATO ally. A joint statement released Thursday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending Canada's decision to seek closer ties with Turkey as the country is accused of infringing on LGBTQ+ rights.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting that a promise to deepen Canada's economic and social ties with Turkey will help reset relations between two countries that haven't always seen eye to eye. Canada is forming a three-year "strategic partnership" with Turkey aimed in part at securing a free-trade agreement, Carney announced Thursday after an hour-long meeting with Turkish President Recep...
ANKARA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting that a promise to deepen Canada's economic and social ties with Turkey will help reset relations between two countries that haven't always seen eye to eye.
ANKARA -- Canada is forming a "strategic partnership" with Turkey aimed in part at securing a free-trade agreement, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday after a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
ANKARA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Turkey on Thursday to kick off a three-day trip aimed at deepening political and economic ties with the NATO ally.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is travelling to Turkey on Wednesday for a three-day trip that experts say should show how his approach to international diplomacy differs from that of the previous Liberal government.
OTTAWA -- The federal Liberal government will table its 2026 federal budget on Nov. 5, Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Tuesday.
OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the Liberal government will table its 2026 federal budget on Nov. 5.
OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the Liberal government will table its 2026 federal budget on Nov. 5.
For the second day in a row, the federal government is announcing plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to train more skilled workers in Canada. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is in her home riding of Thunder Bay today rolling out a plan to spend up to $258.6 million over the next five years to train workers in critical...
For the second day in a row, the federal government is announcing plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to train more skilled workers in Canada.
The federal government plans to spend $430 million over the next five years to help unions train a new generation of workers in the skilled trades. John Zerucelli, secretary of state for labour, announced Thursday that Ottawa is opening applications for access to the new pool of funding, most which comes from an expansion to the Union Training and Innovation...
OTTAWA -- The federal government plans to spend $430 million over the next five years to help unions train a new generation of workers in the skilled trades.
Canada’s economy posted a second consecutive month of job losses in September, pushing up the unemployment rate and offsetting what had been a hot streak for the labour market earlier in the year. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy lost 68,000 positions in September, coming off a loss of 42,000 roles in August. Economists had expected a gain of 9,20...
Canada’s economy posted a second consecutive month of job losses in September, pushing up the unemployment rate and offsetting what had been a hot streak for the labour market earlier in the year.
The parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa's gas tax pause is offering a bigger break at the pumps to the households that earn the most. The federal government temporarily suspended the federal excise tax on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in April, then announced last month it would extend that pause into 2027. In a new report, Ottawa's budget watchdog says...
OTTAWA -- Ottawa's gas tax pause is offering a bigger break at the pumps to the households that earn the most largely because they buy more fuel, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report.
Parliamentarians returned to Ottawa on Monday and Opposition MPs' had their sights trained firmly on the government's 243-page economic and labour bill. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also squared off in question period Monday over whether the government has done enough to prioritize Canadian materials in its sweeping infrastructure agenda. Key to that agenda is the...
OTTAWA -- The federal budget watchdog says construction of a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City could cost more than Ottawa's estimate.
Labour experts say the Liberal government's latest major legislative push will test the limits of Ottawa's power to intervene in collective bargaining when economic interests are at stake. The Liberals tabled Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act, on Monday. It proposes measures to streamline project approvals across Canada, as well as changes to the Canada Labour Code. The most...
OTTAWA -- Labour experts say the Liberal government's latest major legislative push will test the limits of Ottawa's power to intervene in collective bargaining when economic interests are at stake.
OTTAWA -- Employer groups say Ottawa's proposed labour law changes are encouraging but some want the Liberal government to go even further to ensure industrial peace.
OTTAWA -- Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says the way the Liberal government defines certain types of spending in its new budget framework can be inconsistent and contradictory.
OTTAWA -- Employer groups say Ottawa's proposed labour law changes are encouraging but some want the Liberal government to go even further to ensure industrial peace.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors. Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that one of the most consequential parts of the sweeping economic legislation tabled Monday looks to give the public a better sense of what's happening when negotiations turn sour...
OTTAWA -- Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors.
OTTAWA -- Labour leaders are denouncing what they call a direct attack on the right to strike in the sweeping economic bill the Liberal government tabled Monday.
OTTAWA -- Labour leaders are denouncing what they call a direct attack on the right to strike in the sweeping economic bill the Liberal government tabled Monday.
Labour leaders are denouncing what they call a direct attack on the right to strike in the sweeping economic bill the Liberal government tabled Monday. The Canadian Labour Congress on Tuesday accused the federal government of enshrining in the proposed legislation new powers allowing the federal government to quash strikes at a minister's whim. The Liberals, meanwhile, claim the bill...
OTTAWA -- The federal jobs minister says she can't give a "blanket answer" on when the federal government would move to end a strike or lockout under the new labour legislation tabled Monday.
The federal jobs minister says she can't give a "blanket answer" on when the federal government would move to end a strike or lockout under the new labour legislation tabled Monday. According to the proposed Building Canada Strong Act, a work stoppage must be affecting the "national interest" before the minister can trigger Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code...
The Liberal government moved Monday to impose new conditions on a contentious part of the Canada Labour Code that's been used to quash high-profile labour disputes in recent years. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said the proposed changes will put a "higher bar" on Ottawa's ability to scuttle strikes, but labour leaders argue the legislation would instead roll back workers' rights...