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When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his government’s first federal budget last week, he called it a “generational investment” to make Canada “stronger, fairer, and cleaner.” But environmental groups say the numbers tell a different story. The 2025 budget, titled Canada Strong, boosts military and fossil-fuel spending while cutting funds from environmental programs, according to federal…

This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney shared Budget 2025: a budget that Carney says is “to build Canada strong.” The budget emphasized the importance of investing over spending—but what does that really mean? Here to break it down is economist Jim Stanford. About our guest Jim Stanford is economist and director of the Centre for Future Work, a progressive labour economics institute based in…

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has put forward his first federal budget, which lays out an ambitious plan to transform Canada’s economy and deal with the challenge of US tariffs. Billed an “investment budget” by the government, the fiscal plan increases Canada’s deficit to C$78bn ($55.3bn; £42.47bn), the second largest in history. The spending is offset by plans to attract C$1tn of…

For more than three years, Moninder Singh has been living each day knowing he could be assassinated. Police have advised the Canadian-born activist no less than three times they believed he was about to be killed. As recently as March, police notified him of an imminent threat to his life and, in April, suggested he avoid public events. The warnings all came from the RCMP national security…

[News] Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to fast-track nation-building projects to remake Canada’s economy. Indigenous groups want a seat at the table. [English News] Source link