Canada’s tax and benefit system is making life harder for low-income seniors who continue working to pay the bills, according to a new report from the Montreal Economic Institute. The think tank is recommending the federal government overhaul how the Guaranteed Income Supplement, a benefit for this group of individuals, is...
The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders stemming from its aggressive crackdown in the state and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”...
Debt writeoffs by the federal government climbed above the $5-billion mark during the last fiscal year, according to figures reviewed by The Globe and Mail, adding to a debate over Ottawa’s practice of keeping the identities of those who benefit from such debt relief secret....
inb4: yes, I know you can say, "Fuck!" on the 'net: it's OG headline...
With each passing decade since the mid-1980s, Canadians have been spending less and less time with their friends. Just 19 per cent said they hung out with friends on an average day in 2022, down from 48 per cent in 1986, according to Statistics Canada....
Contrary to concerns about cataclysmic traffic if the intersection of Portage and Main was opened to pedestrians, the actual impact was, well, almost nil....
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The growing technical complexity of the Income Tax Act, which makes it harder for taxpayers to understand the rules and for the agency to apply them correctly, is likely one reason behind the rise in objections, Mr. O’Riordan said....
Within five years, the construction of new homes in the country’s hottest markets is projected to slow to near-zero. Less construction, fewer homes, and fewer jobs – all at a time when the country needs more housing than ever.
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[The health minister] said Ottawa also wants to help provinces streamline licensing for immigrating physicians...
Even with prices on the decline, homes are still prohibitively expensive for many buyers. Various metrics show that affordability has improved, but not by much. The Bank of Canada is poised to cut interest rates a couple more times in the coming months, but economists aren’t expecting a return to near-zero levels....
A New Brunswick seafood processing company has been fined $1-million for violating rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program – the largest ever fine levied by the federal government against companies that use the program for migrant labour....
US merger and acquisition investment from China has totalled just $221mn so far this year, representing the slowest pace of investment since 2006, according to data from Dealogic. The total at this point last year was $3.4bn....
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Had to use the archive address because frankly the site just will not load anymore. The page says:...
Two of the most senior purchasing officials at Alberta Health Services in 2022 were also briefly directors of a numbered company with ties to a supplier that has been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in business by the health agency, The Globe and Mail has found....
Measles is scary. Breakthrough measles is even scarier....
