Shortly after the major networks declared Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States, Prime Minister Trudeau took to Twitter to say “Congratulations…I’m really…
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GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS – BUT RED IS THE NEW BLACK Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips has released his first Budget, Ontario’s Action Plan: Protect…
Today’s Speech from the Throne, the 150th such Speech since Confederation and Governor-General Julie Payette’s second, characterized COVID-19, and our response to it, as “our…
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After the machine used to open ballot envelopes malfunctioned, damaging several thousand voting cards and causing hours of delay, Erin O’Toole was announced as the new…
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A Government knocked off course by the fallout of the WE Charity and looking to re-frame its agenda against a new Conservative leader and a…
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Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled the government’s 168-page fiscal “snapshot”, the first formal economic update since the emergence of COVID-19. Here are the numbers: the…
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The Covid-19 pandemic is causing massive cost overruns and very costly delays in public infrastructure projects across the country. The Canadian Construction Association estimates cost…
Over the next few months, restrictions on business will start to loosen and the Canadian economy will open up, but the way we work has…
There’s a time-tested bumper sticker in Alberta that reads, “please God, give me one more oil boom. I promise not to piss it all away…
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We are entering week five of the biggest economic and health-related crisis the country has ever seen. No one knows when this ends or what…
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A massive increase in government spending to underpin impacted businesses and workers. A massive intervention in the private sector, closing non-essential businesses and appealing to…
From: Dwight Duncan To: Canadian Ministers of Finance Re: Extraordinary events call for extraordinary responses The Government of Canada did exactly what it should have done last Friday…
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