Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… MPs return to Ottawa for what promises to be a boisterous sitting Members of Parliament are back in Ottawa today to begin a busy and potentially precarious sitting for the governing Liberals. The New Democrats broke their political […]

The Liberal government’s changes to capital gains taxation came into effect Tuesday, despite significant pushback from business and physicians’ groups. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s spring budget proposed making two-thirds of capital gains — the profit made on the sale of assets such as a secondary residence or stocks — taxable, rather than one-half. For individuals’ capital gains of $250,000 or less, […]