Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a fiery speech Thursday that depicted the government’s latest budget as a threat to the country’s future while suggesting a number of new social programs will get a second look if he’s elected.

Foreign aid groups are hailing the federal Liberal government’s return to a policy of increasing humanitarian and development spending each year, while asking for a plan to push allies to reverse a global decline in aid.

The Trudeau government wants to use federal prisons to detain migrants deemed “high-risk,” according to a line buried in the federal budget tabled on Tuesday.

The federal government bought the project when the proposed pipeline was on the verge of falling apart before there was ever a shovel in the ground in the face of legal, political, and regulatory challenges. 

Canadian entrepreneurs and investors are blasting the federal government’s budget for expanding a tax on the rich that they say will worsen brain drain and further degrade productivity. The government estimates the change will impact 0.13 per cent of Canadians in any given year, and 307,000 Canadian companies.

Six months after Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the way Canada’s MPs have reacted and the positions they have taken are having an impact on support for federal parties in different communities.

A once-sealed affidavit filed with the Tax Court of Canada and obtained by The Fifth Estate details how alleged scammers tricked the Canada Revenue Agency and made off with $37 million of taxpayers’ money.

The federal government announced Wednesday that oral health care providers who provide services to Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) clients can bill the insurance company directly without formally signing up for the program.

The federal budget is proposing a long list of new laws covering everything from the so-called ‘right to disconnect’ to excessive cell phone charges.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s predecessor Bill Morneau says there was talk of increasing the capital gains tax while he was on the job — but he resisted such a change because he feared it would discourage investment by companies and job creators.