The federal government is planning to help Canadians fleeing the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran by organizing commercial flights out of neighbouring countries, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says.
Source: CBC News (Politics)
The Parliamentary Budget Officer says the deficit will be smaller than predicted, but the Liberal government’s lack of clarity on fiscal planning has left Yves Giroux’s office unable to determine if the government’s spending plans are sustainable.
The Competition Bureau is calling for changes to improve the competitive landscape in Canada’s airline industry, including loosening rules that currently limit foreign ownership of Canadian airlines.
Running roughshod over the environment. Spawning the next Idle No More movement. Picking economic winners and losers. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Building Canada Act is anything if not a magnet for criticism.
The Assembly of First Nations national chief is among a chorus of First Nations leaders urging Gov Gen Mary Simon to intervene and delay passage of the federal government’s major projects legislation.
It’s one of the largest pension plans in the world — and some are now asking why nearly half of the Canada Pension Plan’s investments are based in the U.S. while just 12 per cent of the fund that Canadian workers contribute to is invested at home.
The average Canadian family will save $280 on their taxes next year from the Liberal government’s planned income tax cut, the parliamentary budget officer said in an analysis released on Wednesday.
As the G7 summit concludes in the popular wilderness destination of Kananaskis, Alta., officials say provincial teams managed frequent animal encounters without serious incident.
Canada hasn’t explained the rationale that led it to vote against Israel at the UN last week on a motion it had previously declined to back. But angry exchanges as Canada threatened and then applied sanctions on members of the Israeli government have brought relations to the lowest point in years, if not since relations began.
Canada’s spy agency is warning that India’s government continues to be a foreign interference concern a day after the two countries agreed to reinstate their top diplomats.
