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Taking stock of Budget 2024: Three key takeaways
Canada’s 2024 budget is now at the 10-day mark since being tabled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 16 - enough time to take stock of and process reaction from stakeholders.
‘Game changer’: Federal, Ontario governments announce Honda Canada’s $15 billion deal for EV supply chain
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it “the largest auto investment in Canada’s history.”
Trudeau government keeps to activist agenda in tax-and-spend budget
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2024 budget Tuesday, with big spending to increase Canada’s housing supply. The only thing keeping the deficit trajectory in check were new taxes, including $19 billion over five years in new capital gains levies on wealthy individuals and corporations – underscoring the extent to which we have fully entered a populist moment in Canadian politics, Theo Argitis writes.
Mounting fire, insect damage means Canada must manage more of its forests, not less: Nighbor
‘If you look at the Canadian experience, mainly because of a decline in the pulp and paper sector, the annual timber cut has declined by 25 per cent in the last 20 years – but our fire impacts are going up because many of our forests are simply dying,’ says Forest Products Association of Canada CEO Derek Nighbor.
High-speed internet access critical for building prosperous rural communities, MPs say
Rural communities are key to Canada's prosperity and high-speed internet access is critical for economic growth
