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Liberals start petition opposing Old Age Security changes
Are you ready to rumble? Well between now and when the budget comes down (likely in late February to early March), it’s clear what the topic of heated debate and argument in the House of Commons is...
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Federal departments, MP pensions, House of Commons spending in crosshairs...
OTTAWA — House of Commons spending, MPs’ pensions and department budgets are in the crosshairs as the Conservative government prepares to table a budget Thursday that is expected to contain billions of...
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Opposition teams up to stall sweeping federal budget bill
OTTAWA — Opposition parties are warning that they’re prepared to force hundreds of confidence votes — taking dozens of hours — on amendments to the Conservatives’ sweeping budget bill that will demand...
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Changes to federal health spending will hit provincial governments hard,...
OTTAWA — A new report from a federal spending watchdog concludes the Conservative government’s changes to health funding will ultimately download billions of dollars in medical costs annually to the...
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Harper won’t honour stance on jumbo omnibus bills, says opposition
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs are calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper a hypocrite and urging him to follow his own advice on curtailing the use of omnibus bills to pass controversial government...
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Federal government approving billions in spending without knowing long-term...
OTTAWA — The Conservative government has been approving tens of billions of dollars of budget measures, having large impacts on its fiscal position, without Cabinet always knowing the long-term...
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Conservative government to fork out millions for ads related to natural...
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is planning millions of dollars in additional spending on advertising campaigns to promote its contentious changes to natural resource project reviews and...
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Extend Kevin Page’s appointment until successor found through transparent...
The federal NDP is looking to extend the appointment of Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page until his replacement is found via “a thorough, transparent and competitive search.” Page’s five-year...
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Top bureaucrat apologizes for student loan data breach
OTTAWA — The top bureaucrat at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada apologized to a Commons committee Thursday for two data breaches, within weeks of each other last year, that compromised the...
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Flaherty needs to address long-term challenges, notably the aging population
As he approaches his eighth and possibly final budget, Jim Flaherty will no doubt be thinking about his legacy, the last acts that will shape how he’ll be remembered. The air is thick with leaks,...
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NDP policies to be debated run the gamut from clean energy to the Canadian...
OTTAWA — Nationalizing big oil and gas, withdrawing from NAFTA, and establishing a national cycling strategy are among the resolutions New Democrats will debate at a policy convention this weekend. The...
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NHS: Highlights from the National Household Survey on income and shelter costs
• The national median income for the 95 per cent of Canadians who earned any type of income in 2010 was $29,900. • Five per cent of Canadians had no source of income. • The higher your income bracket,...
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NHS: Understanding income
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey calculated income from two main sources — private sources and transfers from governments. • Private sources, or market sources, accounted for 87.6...
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Older Canadians fear outliving their money
While death is a common fear of many people, seniors are increasingly finding the real bogeyman is precisely the opposite. In a manner of speaking, anyway. Outliving their money is the biggest fear of...
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Stephen Harper: Absolute power (2011 – 2013)
OTTAWA — The day after the May 2, 2011, election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aides ushered him into a small room crammed with journalists at Calgary’s Hyatt Regency hotel. After five years running...
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Federal government’s finances healthy, but provinces’ wallets face squeeze,...
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is downloading billions of dollars of health-care costs on the provinces, says the parliamentary budget officer, making federal finances sustainable over the long...
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How the bottom line is changing Canada’s balance of power
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You mean we’re supposed to like the PBO now? Time was when a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer was the occasion for a full-on two-minute hate...
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NDP ready to take on Conservatives, says Tom Mulcair
OTTAWA — The New Democrats are confident they can take the reins of government from the Conservatives in the 2015 federal election, said party leader Tom Mulcair. “We’re putting a fight before the...
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Fat CPP is a tempting target for political raids
The more the debate on CPP reform drags on — a motion in Parliament here, a threat that Ontario might go it alone there, all leading up to next week’s meeting of federal and provincial finance...
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5 things to watch as Justin Trudeau’s Liberals hit Montreal
The federal Liberal convention in Montreal, which starts Thursday night, will be an opportunity for both the public and the party to take stock of Justin Trudeau’s first year as leader. Here are five...
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