Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland today tabled a 400-page-plus budget her government is pitching as a balm for anxious millennials and Generation Z. The budget proposes more than $52 billion in new spending over five years - and a focus on getting more affordable houses built. Here are some of the notable funding initiatives and legislative commitments in budget 2024.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the head of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, is spearheading the upper chamber’s internal debate on what to do about the popular China-owned app
The election is the first since pro-Beijing Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare switched diplomatic recognition to China.
Candidates vying to become MPP for one of the London region's largest ridings squared off Tuesday night in Watford
Polls are open in Ecuador for a referendum that would allow the extradition of mafia bosses to US prisons, in a first hard test of President Daniel Noboa’s popularity.
Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...
Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...
About half of Ontarians say they would abolish the carbon tax if given the chance, a new poll suggests. A new Liaison Strategies poll released this week, which surveyed 1,280 Ontarians, suggests that about 49 per cent of residents support cancelling of carbon pricing while about 27 per cent argue it should stay in place. "When it comes to climate change and the carbon tax - Ontarians have a lot of mixed opinions but 54% say that affordability and the cost of living is more important than...
What matters most to people are the issues of the moment, and Beck and the NDP have yet to provide better alternatives.
The Biden administration has announced its opposition to the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the bill. The House is scheduled to have a stand-alone vote on Wednesday evening on the act, which began as an amendment to a previous bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Sponsor Rep. […]
Some H&R Block customers who waited until the last day to file their taxes faced frustrating outages that began Sunday night, according to the company and Downdetector. The outage was resolved by Monday afternoon, the tax preparer’s support account posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Downdetector, which relies on self-submitted reports to track telecommunication and internet disruptions, reported the problems began around 9 pm ET on Sunday. At its peak, there were almost 1,700 outage...
No meeting for PM It’s no surprise Trudeau is afraid to meet the premiers as demanded by parliament. Trudeau said he already had a meeting in 2016. Danielle Smith quite rightly pointed out none of today’s premiers were in office in 2016. BTW, who was Alberta’s premier at that meeting? None other than the infamous […]