A second top-up to GST rebate cheques for low-income Canadians and “significant” new tax measures to keep Canada in the green technology game will be among the highlights in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s federal budget on Tuesday. The document, Freeland’s third since taking on the finance post in the early months of COVID-19, will try […]
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister visited the Saskatoon area Wednesday as part of her summer tour to get “out of Ottawa.” Chrystia Freeland said that her goal this summer is to travel and get outside the nation’s capital, including a stop at the Mosaic potash mine just outside of Colonsay. During a news conference, Freeland was […]
The federal government has announced a cabinet shuffle Tuesday morning. Some of the highlights include former Health Minister Patty Hajdu will now become the Minister of Indigenous Services. Former procurement minister Anita Anand will take over as Minister of National Defence. Marie-Claude Bibeau remains the Federal Agriculture Minister, and former Indigenous Services Minister Carolyn Bennett […]
With growing concerns of a COVID-19 resurgence thanks to the delta variant, Ottawa has said it will be extending some of its pandemic benefits an extra 30 days. On Friday morning Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said they will extend the wage subsidy and the rent subsidy as well as the Canada Recovery Benefit, the Canada […]
With Monday’s federal budget coming with almost a $355-billion deficit attached to it, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrsytia Freeland says their plan is to reduce that debt by $200-billion this fiscal year. Freeland spoke with 620 CKRM’s Gloria Evans and Cody Glydon Tuesday morning and said one thing they wanted to address in […]
The federal Liberals have introduced its first budget in more than two years, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has delivered a plan that sees more than $100 million in new spending over the next three years amid record-smashing deficits. It is what the government says is a plan to finish the fight against COVID-19, and ensure a […]
The federal Liberal government brings down its first budget in two years on Monday. In November, a fall economic statement said the deficit would be at $381.6 billion by the end of this month, but many believe that number will be much higher when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers the budget The fall economic statement […]
The federal Liberals are proposing $25 billion in new spending to help Canadian businesses and workers make it through a COVID-19 winter and vowing tens of billions more to help the country recover from the pandemic. The government’s fall economic update proposes to send extra child-benefit payments to families next year as well as cash […]
